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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Actually, Godwin's Law states that as the length of any discussion increases, the probability of someone mentioning Hitler or Nazis approaches one.
Various corollaries people have attached to it (the debate is lost, the person doing the mentioning loses, yadda, yadda) are far more debatable. More importantly, they're not Godwin's law.
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I was told, back in 1989, it was comparing other posters,email list people, to Adolf, etc. Otherwise discussions about WW2 would be Godwinized.