One of the most terrifying, brilliantly written, balanced and relevant books I have ever read. I’ve always thought Rees was an exceptional historian, this reaffirms that view.
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I remember that Trump's deceased wife, Ivana, said in a Vanity Fair interview that Trump slept with Hitler's speeches on the nightstand next to their bed.
It's rather terrifying that only the top layers of nazis were prosecuted so many on lower levels still guilty of war crimes disappeared in the shadows. Germany never fully denazifed. Afd leader Weidel grandfather was a nazi military judge in Poland.
I bet it gives great insights into how a Democrat thinks. But thank God we now have Trump as president to reverse all the idiocy old Joe allowed to happen.
The tide is already turning. You've already gone way too far and you don't even know it. Euphoria faded so fast. Don't worry, when we put back together the nation you shattered, we will do it correctly. Restore our republic.
I’ve never read it but I bet hitler’s rise had something to do with mediocre white german men eager to lash out at those who weren’t mediocre white german men.
Blackwells is a very well known respected bookshop, been in business many years.They have many shops in UK near universities so stock a huge range of political/historical books.
It’s remarkable that trump voters have the gall to claim it’s wrong or an exaggeration to say Nazis, Fascism are equal to the GOP, or that trump’s like Hitler. It’s the height of brazen ignorance.
As a yoga/movement teacher I have people every week showing up needing my class, my sense of humor, compassion & community. On the flip side of me, my Viking Amazon Warrior wants the biggest flame thrower to show up & burn them all to a bloody crisp in DC. I’m driving the karma bus babes, look out.
I create historical content because, as an African, I firmly believe that all the answers are BEHIND us. History is CRUCIAL in charting the way forward.
but everyday in every way I'm fighting the urge to become violent. Ugh, that Stephen Miller on CNN just 2 days ago. UGH!!! I want to go MMA on that smug taint wart.
Someone somewhere is going to take violent action against the main players. Luigi style. Possibly an inside job. It's only a month in and people are exhausted and fed up.
well historically a violent perpetrator or multiples have little actionable plans beyond their big bang. Except for the nefarious malicious ones ... Pinochet had a plan. Saddam had a plan. A couple there took violent path and ghastly themselves a career ... for awhile.
I think about that ... can't be like only 2 lone wolfs before the election and then every other nutter accepted fate and moved on. Naw, there's gotta be folks reaching full boil in just 30 days. Kettle is on and we're gonna hear the whistle go off soon.
Fighting a war on 4 fronts - east, west, south, and keeping the concentration camps full and running diverting funds fuel transportation and manpower to kill an idea.
I'm in Toronto Canada can't see any American armed forces in the streets. What I'd do see is a president that is asking us to do our part in stopping criminals going back and forth over our borders and our govt still just wants to talk without taking action.
One of my college friends who graduated from a UC school with a degree in history, AND who I took 3 classes on the Holocaust with, voted for him. I messaged her on the side because I thought I misread her post. She doubled down and said she's struggling with her 2 children, she's hoping he'd help. 🤯
Don't forget that US regime companies profited from the nazi's, they love privatized companies that don't pay tax etc. just like musk/trump are doing now in the US. Here is ex pres bush's grandfather, he helped hitler to power.
And, "In the spring of 1943, the United States, officially an ally of the Soviet Union in the anti-Hitler coalition, was secretly preparing to deliver goods to the Third Reich, which was then preparing for the Battle of Kursk." https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1871647518850961437
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That was our parents warning!
Close?
Mediocre white men are the bane of the planet.
Thanks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-gives-apparent-nazi-033041080.html
Have you read his other book, Erasing History...?
https://gazette.com/news/wex/cpac-relishes-in-trump-s-power-amid-push-for-unconstitutional-third-term/article_54470fd3-475f-5517-baba-5bbf22641293.html
At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law...
Uncanny present day parallels.
https://mdavis19881.substack.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Nonviolent_Action?wprov=sfti1#
The question is what’s mine.
Here is some news.
What happens at 3 am in 3 months
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblowers/s/F1wS8rn1wS
Applied knowledge is power.
It doesn’t mention Trump specifically but the subtext of all the historians while being interviewed is crystal clear.
quite informative also
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1871647518850961437
I am also reading Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands.
We need to heed Rees and Snyder in these troubled times.
The history of the campaign by Stalin and Hitler to destroy Poland is a warning that Ukraine must be defended.
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