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and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the nazi-soviet pact

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created just to make it really easy for the West to figure out who the bad guys [Stalin and Hitler standing together]

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were yeah take a look damage there okay here's your question

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which of the following best summarizes the reason Nazis destroyed property as

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shown in the picture above and here the potential answers

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well we were going to include e because they were immature man children [Answer E appears]

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desperately crying out for attention and trying to feel a false sense of

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self-importance but we thought that would have been well a little immature [Sad young girl appears]

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but still totally accurate the perpetrators who ran around smashing

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windows did not do it to prove their obedience to German leaders and they

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certainly didn't do it to prevent Allied assistance which we know because the

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whole Allies completely looked our bus thing that happened apparently being [Hitler cartoon with trousers down]

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able to smash the windows of innocent shop owners doesn't automatically make [Soldier smashing window with foot]

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you a successful army who knew too bad so bad yeah not really

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and the nazi-soviet pact was about non-aggression between the two states

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signed in 1939 of course the Nazis broke the pact two years later when they [Canon aims at Stalin]

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invaded the Soviet Union but seriously you've got to be pretty stupid to sign a

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peace treaty with the leadership whose ultimate goal is world domination and

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mass murder though we don't exactly feel bad for the Soviets on this one that'd

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be like if you were made of pudding and you signed out no eating pudding treaty

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with a pudding monster who does nothing but he pudding see have done that Angela [Pudding looking at pudding monster]

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well that's how dumb it would be to sign a non-aggression agreement with Nazi

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Germany no the real reason the people broke these windows boiled down to plain

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old simple stupid racism racial theories dominated the Nazi way of thinking and

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so they wanted to eliminate those they felt were inferior one such strategy was

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intimidation which apparently included smashing store windows because well when [Store window smashes]

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it boils down to it the Nazi mentality was about it intellectually students [Baby with Hitler's face appears]

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toddlers what anyone else have a hankering for

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pudding

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