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"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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Today in Labor History October 7, 1944: Uprising at Birkenau extermination camp (associated with Auschwitz). Jewish Sonderkommando, mostly from Greece and Hungary, attacked the SS with stones and hammers, killing three of them, and set crematorium IV on fire and threw their Oberkapo into a furnace. Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Nazis, on threat of their own deaths, to dispose of gas chamber victims). After escaping, the rebels reached Rajsko, where they hid in the granary, but the SS pursued and killed them by setting the granary on fire. By the time the rebellion at crematorium IV had been suppressed, 212 members of the Sonderkommando were still alive and 451 had been killed.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #resistance #uprising #birkenau #auschwitz #fascism #antisemetism #rebellion
People focus on Hitler and Nazi leaders and the atrocious lethal lies they told to justify the mass murder of Jews.
But they should focus also on the willingness of very many people to believe those lies, to cheer and assist as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and sent to their deaths.
The problem is never just the Hitlers, the Nazis. The problem is us, many of us — our propensity to stigmatize and hate.
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
'Tories took eye off far right as UK riots loomed'
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-summer-far-right-riots-immigrants-mosques-refugees-violence/
official who works in counter-extremism monitoring: 'part of the reason for what they described as a “drop off” in monitoring was ideological. ... “But it’s fair to say that the last government, particularly by the end, weren’t really as interested in the extreme right wing or far-right.”'
#UK #FarRight #Nazis #ExtremeRight #politics #Tories #Conservatives #law #Tory #Conservative #extremism #terrorism #riots
Rangers fans once again shame themselves with another Nazi flag display.
Will the Scottish FA take action? I won't hold my breath.
“This afternoon, in the hall of the RNC convention, attendees chanted, ‘Fight, fight, fight,’ as they punched an arm in the air, in an eerie echo of Germany in the 1930s.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Republicans #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #violence #Nazis
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-15-2024
Do not compare Israel to Nazi Germany, that is Holocaust inversion.
Meanwhile, in Israel:
Former Israeli MK Quotes Hitler While Discussing Gaza War
“As Hitler said,” Moshe Feiglin said to Channel 12 news, “‘I can’t live if one Jew is left,’ we can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”
Via @bifouba
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Nazis #Hitler #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #holocaust #holocaustInversion #zionism #antisemitism
Reform
'We shouldn't have fought the Nazis' and 'women are spongers'
“For millions of you, the European poll is the first election in your life. For many of us it could be the last...
We couldn’t prevent [the rise of nazism] back then, but you can today.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/holocaust-survivors-young-europeans-vote-against-far-right-eu-election
#Vote #Fascism #MAGA #Nazis
I am livid and scared. My daughter, a library board trustee in her city, is being targeted by the Moms for Stupidity and their minions, including Proud Boys. She is attacked in their RW rags, social media and AM radio. They film her. It's no secret where she lives, where my granddaughter lives. I admit that because it's happening to my own kid, I'm more inclined to say, get the hell out before you get hurt.
This is Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte who personally saved 31,000 Jews and non-Jews from Nazi Germany.
He was chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Palestine–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948.
The Zionists killed him in Jerusalem after he wrote his report detailing the devastated Palestinian villages he saw and the mass killings.
7 March 1925 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Lenczner, was born in Częstochowa.
In Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23597
He did not survive.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #otd
On 22 February 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, part of the White Rose group of peaceful protesters against the Nazi regime, were executed by guillotine at Stadelheim Prison, Munich.
"The law changes, conscience doesn't." Sophie Scholl
Deutsche Welle: "Sophie Scholl and the youth resistance against the Nazis"
https://www.dw.com/en/the-story-of-nazi-resistance-fighter-sophie-scholl/a-57457734
#HansScholl #SophieScholl #ChristophProbst #WhiteRoseGroup #Nazis #Munich #Germany #OnThisDay
On 18 February 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl, part of the White Rose group of peaceful protesters against the Nazi regime, were arrested at the University of Munich. They were later executed by guillotine. They were 24 and 18 years old.
#HansScholl #SophieScholl #WhiteRoseGroup #Nazis #Munich #Germany #OnThisDay
Rudolf Pörtner, the German author of this work became quite famous for his nonfiction works in the second half of the 20th century. However, his Wikipedia entry reveals that he wrote a lot of Nazi propaganda in his younger days, during the Third Reich.
There doesn't seem to be any indication that he continued to be active in right-wing extremist circles, so likely he used the "Stunde Null" ("Zero Hour") to drop this whole part of his personal history and reinvent himself. But it is unclear how much he actually recanted his former convictions.
Which leaves me with the question: Is his "Die Wikinger-Saga", a nonfiction work on the Vikings I found on a public bookshelf, still worth reading - considering his past and context?
#Nazis #Vergangenheitsbewältigung #Vikings de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_P%C3%B6rtner
