If Germans own #Hitler - and we obviously do - then Americans definitely own #Trump .
Saying: "I didn't vote for him!" Is no longer enough. Now the question is: "Do you comply, or do you resist?"
The Germans who grew up after WWII also asked these questions to the generations of their parents and grandparents... and the latter often failed to have good answers.
Preorder the #newbook,
MEDALLIONS:
Eight #ShortStories of #Nazi Atrocities in #Poland and the Fates of Their Victims
by Steve Hudson, Zofia Nalkowska
https://stevedustcircleus.wordpress.com/medallions/
https://books2read.com/u/boVYRA
More than mere #historical record, Medallions offers the reader startling immediacy, the repetition of an event as it persists in the #testimonial present, in the scars on the consciousness and conscience of individuals.
Publication date: 01/04/2025
#thirdreich #WWII #history #book #hitler
Today in Labor History January 1, 1934: A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" went into effect in Nazi Germany. The Eugenics research that Hitler used to justify torture and genocide was inspired by similar research from the U.S. The American eugenics movement originated in the 1880s, from the biological determinist ideas of Francis Galton. He believed that selective breeding could improve the human race and allow them to direct their own evolution. The U.S. eugenics movement was heavily funded by the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. Biologist Charles B. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1911. The ERO trained field workers, who they sent to study people in mental hospitals and orphanages across the U.S. Davenport and others began to lobby for solutions to the problem of the "unfit." They lobbied for immigration restrictions and sterilization. Some even promoted the idea of extermination, well before Hitler became known for it. Some well-known eugenicists of the early 20th century included Alexander Graham Bell, Luther Burbank and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The eugenics movement tended to target the poor, people with disabilities and mentally illness, and specific communities of color as “unfit” for society. Their solutions included forced sterilization, which continued in the U.S. until as recently as 2010. From 1997-2010, California performed nonconsensual sterilizations on roughly 1,400 women prisoners. From 1929-1973, North Carolina sterilized the third highest number of people in the United States, roughly 7,600 people, predominantly African American women.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #eugenics #sterilization #sexism #ableism #racism #nazis #facism #hitler #genocide #classism #francisgalton #carnegie #rockefeller #margaretsanger
this 1933 diplomatic cable from the american embassy in berlin to FDR that was sent three months after #Hitler took power goes hard
"𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺."
#Germany #EU #nazi #Nazis #AfD #FDR #ww2 #WWII #WinstonChurchill
"Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them 'very long sentences,' I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their 'Day One' period to consolidate their power...."
#RickSteves #Fascism #Hitler #PoliticalOpponents
https://fb.watch/vyowpJE04F/
The warning bell keeps clanging. Many of us are bored at hearing the repeated clangs.
This underscores a central revelation of this election: given the chance to choose fascism, eyes wide open, a significant proportion of Americans say, "Bring it on."
So he talks about Hitler with admiration? So what? What's a little infatuation with Hitler, after all?
We Americans are having to face some ugly truth about ourselves as this election nears.
"As the United States hovers at the edge of fascism, the history of Germany can help."
~ Timothy Snyder
As Snyder notes, there's a taboo in American culture and media against comparing anything happening in the US — the land of innocence and goodness — to Hitler's Germany is verboten. Even when the comparisons are glaringly obvious….
But history is there to teach us.
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #PoliticsofHate #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #MassDeportation
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"But that is exactly how many, particularly in the media, interpreted his comment."
As someone who interprets language for a living, no one is interpreting anything except those who insist that his words don't mean what they say. He said "bloodbath"; he meant "bloodbath." Full stop.
Not quite: while you're interpreting, take at look at @GottaLaff's thread about #Trump's admiration for #Hitler in 1996. The only criticism he makes is that Hitler didn't go far enough.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/goldberg-did-trump-literally-threaten-231806365.html
Over the weekend, Donald Trump suggested creating a police force that metes out punishments with impunity—a model used by Hitler and Mussolini. That story is the most important development over the weekend. It deserves to be headline news in every major media outlet
#hitler #nazi #fascism #authoritarianism #trump #biden #voteblue #police #policebrutality
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-carry-on-955
"The former president (did I mention he’s taken to directly quoting #Hitler?) tried to overthrow the government almost exactly 3 yrs ago... He argued in court this week that he as president is above any #law, & would have the right to murder his political adversaries if re-elected, & tomorrow he is fully expected to win the #Iowa Republican caucus in a massive landslide on his easy path toward the #Republican nomination for president."
@JuliusGoat
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/lose-the-debate
"We are now dangerously confronted with a movement headed by a man who repeatedly quotes Nazi propaganda, praises dictators, incited and defends violence together with a MAGA base that is 'looking for more blood.' At this point, calling MAGA a modern-day Neo-Nazi movement is no longer hyperbolic. It’s the frightening reality we are faced with in our nation."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Hitler #Nazi #dictator #MAGA
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-has-turned-maga-into-a-modern
As per the #MeidasTouchNetwork
«Trump Echoes Hitler, Threatens to Rid America of 'Vermin' from Within
On multiple occasions on #VeteransDay, #DonaldTrump echoed #AdolfHitler in series o attacks on political opponents, implying they r more dangerous than any “outside forces” & compared them to "vermin."
After echoing #Hitler in Veterans Day post on his #SocialMedia account, #Trump then made near verbatim comments during rally on Sat in #Claremont, #New #Hampshire.»
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-echoes-hitler-threatens-to-rid-america-of-vermin-from-within
The Complete Idiot's Guide to #Fascism
https://www.okdoomer.io/idiots-guide-fascism/
Someone understood #Hitler and fascism as it was unfolding in Germany. He wrote about it in 1939.
#Trump is escalating his #violent #WhiteNationalist rhetoric
On Oct 3, Trump said #migrants are — quote — "poisoning the blood of our country."
Historian, #RuthBenGhiat, said the #language that he's using directly echoes language used in #Nazi #propaganda by #AdolfHitler when #Hitler said that Jewish people & migrants were — quote — "causing a blood poisoning" — of Germany.
![Text Shot: Trump's threat to abandon NATO, round up millions of immigrants, turn the FBI into a political hit squad, jail Joe Biden’s family, ban refugees from Gaza, begin “strong ideological screening of all immigrants, reboot his ban on travelers from Muslim-majority nations, and start his presidency as a “dictator for a day” (which, by the way, is the same thing as “a dictator,” because once you overthrow the Constitution to become a dictator, you cannot repair that wound.)
For example, at a rally over the weekend, Trump said the following:
I'm also going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the US to protect them from being destroyed by the radical left . . . Once [criminals] see things happening that they never thought would happen to them, it'll all stop overnight.
Let’s unpack Trump's statement. He promises that he will protect and hold harmless (i.e., indemnify) police officers who “do things” to criminals “they never thought would…](/proxy/post_attachment/158201/c444b5b84f.png "Text Shot: Trump's threat to abandon NATO, round up millions of immigrants, turn the FBI into a political hit squad, jail Joe Biden’s family, ban refugees from Gaza, begin “strong ideological screening of all immigrants, reboot his ban on travelers from Muslim-majority nations, and start his presidency as a “dictator for a day” (which, by the way, is the same thing as “a dictator,” because once you overthrow the Constitution to become a dictator, you cannot repair that wound.)
For example, at a rally over the weekend, Trump said the following:
I'm also going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the US to protect them from being destroyed by the radical left . . . Once [criminals] see things happening that they never thought would happen to them, it'll all stop overnight.
Let’s unpack Trump's statement. He promises that he will protect and hold harmless (i.e., indemnify) police officers who “do things” to criminals “they never thought would…")
