A lot of the information is out of date, and doesn't take into account CCTV - but a lot of it could be easily adapted for the modern age. It needs @youranoncentral.bsky.social .
Hands across the water to US federal workers who are being told to take a buyout or prove their loyalty. This is the most popular thread currently on a federal workers’ Reddit
It's a cliche "Nazism didn't start with gas chambers".
The most telling tv doc on Nazism: episode about an ordinary cop. He was called to one of the then new concentration camps to do some paperwork. A few inmates had died.
He found several bodies beaten to death and thrown in a shed./1
He asked "Wth happened here? Who is responsible?".
He was told "None of your business. Just do what you have to". He went back to his station and reported murders. Nobody interested. He went up the chain and wrote letters. But the Law and the State as he knew it were gone. Soon his job too was gone.
The problems faced by the US were woven into its fabric from the very beginning and inherent in its contradictions. As a nation it was/is no greater than any other: a bastion of freedom built on slavery; decent though it slaughtered the indigenous population; faithful though it bows to hatefulness.
Not looked into it myself, and don't know the numbers, but it would not surprise me if many US citizens have understandably fled the US in the last few weeks to seek better treatment and safer refuge in Germany. And Poland. And...
An incomprehensible inversion of events which took place in 1938/39.
This is an excellent post, Carole. It signifies in itself to those in the US who want, or indeed need, assistance (even if it's just access to information already being denied to them in their own country and in the future) that there are many of us who will do what we can to assist from outside.
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Via the always excellent @404media.co
The most telling tv doc on Nazism: episode about an ordinary cop. He was called to one of the then new concentration camps to do some paperwork. A few inmates had died.
He found several bodies beaten to death and thrown in a shed./1
He was told "None of your business. Just do what you have to". He went back to his station and reported murders. Nobody interested. He went up the chain and wrote letters. But the Law and the State as he knew it were gone. Soon his job too was gone.
Thank you for circulating. I hope everyone else shares it too.
https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lgub2wb5zk2o
An incomprehensible inversion of events which took place in 1938/39.