Reichswehr to Wehrmacht: The disaster awaiting Law Enforceme
Aug 3, 2016 4:16:29 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Aug 3, 2016 4:16:29 GMT -5
Reichswehr to Wehrmacht: The disaster awaiting Law Enforcement
The Virginia Freeman's Society, August 1, 2016
I cannot explain why I failed to make this connection sooner, but I was turning over the debacles in Miami and Idaho in my mind, and the changing paradigm of how law enforcement is perceived in America when I had a minor revelation. Even a blind mouse finds the cheese on occasion, so I hear. American LEO’s find themselves in much the same situation as the German Reichswehr did eighty years ago. For those unfamiliar, the post-WW1 German Army was the Reichswehr, a small non-mechanized force of 100,000 men hamstrung by the Treaty of Versailles…the European version of Reconstruction. I suspect most are familiar with the Wehrmacht, the beast that rose in 1935 and took on a very different attitude than its predecessor. The German people were going through rather austere economic conditions during the time of the Reichswehr (sound familiar?) and much was blamed on the rank and file military for the defeat and conditions of the day. Were they? No. Did it matter? Negative, Ghostrider. The response was an organically formed close-knit community and lack of engagement in the political or cultural sphere at all. Rather than remain non-political, the Reichswehr became apolitical.
While the Reichswehr were true professional soldiers, a cultural revolution was sweeping through Germany in the early 1930’s and they failed to recognize the dangers they were becoming embroiled in, and where the cultural current was taking the country. The Reichswehr grew in the mid-1930’s, burgeoning to 300,000 men which the general staff was more than willing to cooperate with. Hard to hate the man who’s dumping money and personnel onto you...
virginiafreemen.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/reichswehr-to-wehrmacht-the-disaster-awaiting-law-enforcement/
The Virginia Freeman's Society, August 1, 2016
I cannot explain why I failed to make this connection sooner, but I was turning over the debacles in Miami and Idaho in my mind, and the changing paradigm of how law enforcement is perceived in America when I had a minor revelation. Even a blind mouse finds the cheese on occasion, so I hear. American LEO’s find themselves in much the same situation as the German Reichswehr did eighty years ago. For those unfamiliar, the post-WW1 German Army was the Reichswehr, a small non-mechanized force of 100,000 men hamstrung by the Treaty of Versailles…the European version of Reconstruction. I suspect most are familiar with the Wehrmacht, the beast that rose in 1935 and took on a very different attitude than its predecessor. The German people were going through rather austere economic conditions during the time of the Reichswehr (sound familiar?) and much was blamed on the rank and file military for the defeat and conditions of the day. Were they? No. Did it matter? Negative, Ghostrider. The response was an organically formed close-knit community and lack of engagement in the political or cultural sphere at all. Rather than remain non-political, the Reichswehr became apolitical.
While the Reichswehr were true professional soldiers, a cultural revolution was sweeping through Germany in the early 1930’s and they failed to recognize the dangers they were becoming embroiled in, and where the cultural current was taking the country. The Reichswehr grew in the mid-1930’s, burgeoning to 300,000 men which the general staff was more than willing to cooperate with. Hard to hate the man who’s dumping money and personnel onto you...
virginiafreemen.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/reichswehr-to-wehrmacht-the-disaster-awaiting-law-enforcement/