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On consiparcy theories. What do you think of spiritual protection ,or spiritual powers of those in charge? Like HItler for example, he killed millions. Feared by every one but most nazis, who hailed him as there leader. Shouldn't that alone give him some magickal power?

The Nazis actually did a great deal of research into the occult and Heinrich Himler had a personal astrologer and everything.

Actually, most of Germany loved Hitler. You could argue that the love was birthed from the fear, which is a valid point, but the fact of the matter is that most believed what he said and loved him. It's just that most of what you hear about was the fear of the Jews and those he threw in camps. Plus, most of the Germans now don't want to admit that they loved him.

I actually wrote my senior English paper about how charismatic leaders can be. Hitler in Germany, and O'Brien/Big Brother in 1984. It's the same thing. People love strong, authoritative figures. Even if they, you know, advocate the persecution and killing of thousands of innocent people.

Germans=/=Nazis.

Honesty: I read virtually none of this. It started off talking about conspiracy theories I'd never heard of and have nothing to say about, so I didn't even read the rest or any of the responses. I clicked the link to www.abovetopsecret.com out of curiosity whether it proposed the theories or discounted them, and left after looking at it for less than two or three seconds to find the answer. Therefore, my response to this is not towards anything explicitly written above me.

Also honesty: I've found that most conspiracy theories cannot be either discounted or verified without fact, and that some things even are unproveable until science and/or the declassification system catch up on the times. In other words, some of the theories that the government say are ridiculous really are, some are just things no one is sure about but wants to pretend they are, and some are true or touch on a truth that no one in the government is legally allowed to talk about.

Everyone with a Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret clearance signs a paper first swearing that they will never tell classified information or allow it to leak, even upon death. It's a binding contract that can, depending on severity, lead to death row-- a loss of one's employment at the very least. Even the facts that disprove a theory are often still classified, which only sucks because those without honor and understanding then claim, "If you won't say why I'm wrong, then you can't, because I'm right." Noooooo, sweetheart, just because Daddy won't tell you where babies really come from doesn't mean it's the stork. Trust me, it's not.

A little extra bit of honesty: There is no classification above Top Secret. There are only Confidential (the lowest), Secret (middle), and Top Secret (highest). That's why it's called "top." There are sub-controls within each level, but those only define whether a person has a personal need to know that information. Someone with a TS clearance does not usually have access to all classified information, and this is to minimize the risk of someone leaking information on purpose or on accident. The more information one person knows, the greater a risk they are to national security. What if someone gets ahold of their computer? What if they get abducted by the enemy? What if they are so immursed in classified material on a daily basis that they slip one night and say something in front of a microphone or spy? It happens, as well as espionage, so the idea is to minimize those risks and limit the amount of information any one person knows. There is still nothing above Top Secret, just subsections within it.

Finish this famous quote: "History is written by the _______."

Also, not all Germans gave a care about loving Hitler. What they loved was not starving, not their currency lose value so fast that their children would use the bundles of paper as cheap toy bricks, not to watch those same children die of disease and malnutrition around them, not having to pay half the known world in blood and valuables as the price of losing their last war. The Jews were an exceptable target because the Jews had always played their lot a little smarter than everyone else and weren't as poor, even if they were still starving. To everyone else--and not just in Germany--the Jews were a little too smart for their own good... which is why not a nation would grant them shelter when they were first exiled, including us. Hitler wasn't a strong leader so much as he knew how to work a mob.