My motherβs parents and her brother were arrested and deported by the Gestapo for resisting the occupation of their beloved Netherlands. My grandmother and uncle died in captivity.
I rewatched Schindlerβs List 18 days ago. It had been 32 years since I watched the movie and felt the need to reacquaint myself with the horrors of the holocaust. Neeson, Kingsley, and Fiennes were superb.
I come from back in the day when this was taught about in school I'm not sure if it is anymore I come from back in the day when that was a choice. The denier's and there are the wanna be's. These are supposed to be my golden years π€
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Iβve been studying everything I can on everything that led up to WW2 and the state of the world during that time since I was about 12. In fact, idk why I didnβt choose historian as a career path, but never mind that lol. Itβs crazy to me how so many people donβt understand the similarities going on
Spent a month watching all kinds of docs on the Third Reich and WWII. When people say itβs overblown to compare Hitler and his government with whatβs going on now - no, no itβs not. Fascism has landed.
He's got similarities to Hitler - great oratory skills, lying, not interested in policy, psychopathy, victimhood, scapegoating, make Germany/America Great Again.
Took a class while in college about the decade leading up to WW2. It is amazing the similarities in how people are acting now compared to the Germans then.
The thugs who attacked our Temple of Liberty in order to drag politicians through the streets and hang Mike Pence that he pardoned and empowered are at this minute organizing to become his personal militia to accompany him everywhere he goes in order to entertain him with acts of violence.
Hitler outlined his intentions in Mein Kampf. The danger of re-electing Trump was out front before the election. Unfortunately, too many people either sympathized or favored party loyalty over sanity, humanity, and our Constitution. Thanks for posting this, Rachel.
My Mother said that if anyone spoke against Hitler, the Party or the the war the Gestapo would come in the middle of the night and the entire family would be gone. A neighborhood woman dressed in a Nazi Party uniform kept an ear and eye on everyone. When the Russians came, she was gone.
This is what is happening in Venezuela! So many kids have been sent to prison because the government found out they were talking negatively about the regime on social media, and military police rounded the kids up at their houses and terrorized the families. This is already happening today!!
I didn't realize it had gotten this bad there. I had a phlebotomist for a few years who had been a doctor in Venezuela during Chavez but he had gotten out before it got to this point. Last time I saw him the rest of his family had finally gotten out.
The darkness of evil and goon theatrics
Looming daily in male psyche by the way in lower level of humans
And yet these wealthy are lurking in giggle rages hoping more excitement occurs
So keep on guard as necessary
Yep! Thanks for title. The more I read about Hitler and Nazi regime the more I wish everyone would cause it seems like we are heading back to those terrible times.
Actually instead of focusing on the SS and Hiltler maybe its time to recall what the few βsurvivorsβ warned ALL Ppl about as βHow so many were exterminated,β βBecause neighbors turned in neighbors and family membersβ & many just turned a blind eye and ear to Out in the open streets π―of aforemention
I studied it in the 1970s as part of my German degree. I've always been a massive germanophile, but it hit me very hard, notably the sheer lack of humanity of not only the Nazis (which you'd expect) but so many ordinary civilians. It put me off the country and even some friends there for a while.
Certainly one of the most important books ever written. Unfortunately not enough people have read it, and it feels like some who have read it have took completely the wrong lessons from it. Read it twice and it is still on my rereading (well listening list)
Shirer was a reporter, not a historian. It's not scholarly and when he goes beyond reporting what he saw, he is almost always wrong in his analysis. He has no real understanding of what Nazism was about because he didn't have access so he makes it up. It is really dated.
Some of these books are good for history but people like Elon Musk want to become just like that history. We need to put warning signs. This is just history is not for real. I mean it's for real but don't do it. I'm so fucking confused sometimes sorry
Take a close look at the guys on the cover... clearly a bunch of Aryan supermen. They remind me of Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and Ben Shapiro.
The documentary "The Tattooist son of Auschwitz" is on TV app Stan. Imo
Should be compulsory viewing on all channels for this to register a jolt as never ever to happen again.
I'll check it out. Listening to this now and as others with similar topic it is fascinating. Too bad the demographic involved isn't doing much in the way of book learning.
Listen to Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/1684579295?source_code=ORGOR69210072400FU
They released an official statement in2022: "Our upcoming album 'The War To End All Wars' deals with a conflict that ended over a century ago, & we're deeply saddened to now see mankind repeat the mistakes of generations past. There's been more than enough bloodshed throughout history.
and 'Sabaton History Channel'. In 2022 Sabaton received the Public Educator Award for the historical info, which they publish on their homepage and through YT. The award is traditionally presented to academics, journalists etc that go above & beyond to educate people https://youtu.be/tZsaFcGzkeM?si=8nNLlTR65emGR1Tl
I just won a first edition at an auction. I picked it up today and the lady who handed it to me looked startled at the swastika on the cover. I told her it was a history not a manifesto. It's written by an American. She still didn't want to handle it. One side seig heils. The other side sees plague.
Remember, the reason they're bombarding you is to separate you. The mother worried about her SNAP isn't able to worry about her LGBTQ neighbour, who isn't able to worry about their disabled work colleague, who isn't able to worry about the immigrant their friend is dating. You have to unite!
ICE is the new Gestapo and with dump signing an executive order to send 30k migrants to GuantΓ‘namo Bay is absolutely disgusting. First step for the concentration camps how is nobody stopping this tyrant! Iβm afraid our military will not uphold the constitution & do his bidding becoming the Gestapo!
That's Heydrich on the right. Czech partisans assassinated him in 1942. They and most of the inhabitantsof the villages of Lidice and LeΕΎΓ‘k paid with their lives.
Read em all. The problem is that most Americans do not read the history of the Nazis or even our own involvement in WWII or any other era for that matter. They donβt have a clue
Heinrich Himmler, the Architect of the Fi al Solution, an ex-chicken farmer, was said to fain t at the sight of blood. Obviously, he did none of there dirty work himself or he would have been unconscious during the entirety of the Third Reich.
I talked to a Republican staffer yesterday and tried to appeal to his humanity or his soul or anything. I shared how my wife survived the genocide in Cambodia. He smugly replied that he knows heβs going to heaven no matter what.
Yes. The Gestapo came for my young Dadβs WWII resistance fighter buddy and sent him to concentration camp after torturing him in the infamous Shell House in Copenhagen. My Dad then fled to his Swedish family and joined the Danish Brigade, Pioneer Commando there. #NeverForget βπ»
I LITERALLY JUST responded to a post by @meidastouch.com about the "gov't" being the N.A.G. now (New American Gestapo) . . .
#REDDAWN started Jan 20, 2025!! ππ
A quick search on https://Worldcat.org shows me a dozen libraries in my region with copies of this resource. Books and audiovisual materials existed before Bezos was even born. We donβt need his platform.
Forget dismantling gangs: Trump's Jan. 6 pardons send a clear signal to radicalized, violent people that he'd love for them to form right-wing militias and terrorize people he doesn't like. https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/w...
Or, an easier and more fun two hoursβ¦ watch JoJo Rabbit. Great movie you can watch with kids that takes place during Nazi-times. Itβs the best explainer video about what is and could be happening soon. Please π
I have better recommendations stating with Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning if you want to see what normalization leads to. Spotting the PB or OK is easy. Spotting people who are susceptible and their triggers. More difficult.
The better time would have been to better educate our body politic so they understood how fascism speaks BEFORE half of them decided to vote for it. We need action takers to fight this global threat.
Some of these boys were in the docket at Nuremberg. None of them were brave, but Rommel and the Nazi who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb. Suicide was the order of the day.
And watch every documentary you can find on Hitler and the rise of fascism. It will look and sound very familiar to what is happening here now.
Then act before they come to your city or neighborhood. Because they are coming.
And, for morale when feeling low and mindless (every day so far since 1-20), watch movies that involve fighting and defeating Nazis, especially old classics. Fighting Nazis winning formula.
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Like they came back to do it again.
The similarities are terrifying.
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I rewatched Schindlerβs List 18 days ago. It had been 32 years since I watched the movie and felt the need to reacquaint myself with the horrors of the holocaust. Neeson, Kingsley, and Fiennes were superb.
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I will watch the ones that form in my own language on OUR soil. At least will know who they will drag away.
We all know what the end is going to be anyway, so reading would take away from pestering all the bluesky peeps!π
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-guantanamo-detention-center
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Looming daily in male psyche by the way in lower level of humans
And yet these wealthy are lurking in giggle rages hoping more excitement occurs
So keep on guard as necessary
Also, this article: https://archive.ph/2025.01.08-221341/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/
https://generalstrikeus.com/
Avoid big box, use mom and pop, if available
Should be compulsory viewing on all channels for this to register a jolt as never ever to happen again.
Listen to Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/1684579295?source_code=ORGOR69210072400FU
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
Thereβs also a Rise and Fall of the Third Republic (of France)
https://www.msnbc.com/prequel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fascism_Works
See Trumps order to create concentration camp in Guantanamo.
History will shame them, mercilessly.
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#REDDAWN started Jan 20, 2025!! ππ
Mein Kampf
2025 edition?
https://forthelivingmovie.com
Pope Francis can, and should, be saying and doing a lot more! He has incredible influence on sharing his concerns!
https://youtu.be/6X7CxwU7lsE?si=s7-c4e5GJWHsrSV4
https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/w...
Then act before they come to your city or neighborhood. Because they are coming.