1/ My dear American readers, I feel it is time to acquaint you with a phrase that was very popular during the Third Reich:

"Wenn das der Führer wüsste!"

You see, whenever Nazis at any level of the German government did something shitty, a lot of Germans who followed them refused to believe that high Nazi leadership was in any way responsible, and insisted that if Adolf Hitler himself knew of this, he would immediately put a stop to it - up to and including the deportation of the Jews. Hence their exclamation:

"If only the Führer knew about this!"

And in the years to come, I believe you will hear a similar phrase from many of those who voted for Trump whenever the Trump government does something shitty:

"If only Trump knew about this!"

#USPolitics #Trump #Hitler #Nazis

"It is much harder to look into the darkness in the hearts of ordinary people with unquiet minds, needing someone to feel better than, whose cheers and votes allow despots anywhere in the world to rise to power in the first place. It is harder to focus on the danger of common will, the weaknesses of the human immune system, the ease with which the toxins can infect succeeding generations."

~ Ibid.

#fascism #Nazis #cruelty
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“Germany bears witness to an uncomfortable truth — that evil is not one person but can be easily activated in more people than we would like to believe when the right conditions congeal. It is easy to say: if we could just root out the despots before they take power or intercept their rise. If we could just wait until the bigots die away."

~ Ibid., p. 267

#fascism #Nazis #cruelty
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"They are husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, children, uncles, nephews, all gathered at a ticker-tape parade on a brilliant, sunny day celebrating what we know to be a horror….

It was two years past Kristallnacht. They knew that Jewish friends and neighbors had been rounded up, publicly humiliated, taken away, never seen again. And the people in the crowd were smiling and happy."

~ Ibid.

#fascism #Nazis #cruelty
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“The Nazis could not have risen to power and done what they did without the support of the masses of people who were open to his spell. I could not stop watching it [i.e., film footage of Hitler entering Berlin on 6 July 1940]. The smiling, shining faces in this carpet of exuberant humanity—this massive number of people could not all be what we would consider evil."

#fascism #Nazis #cruelty
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~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (NY: Random House, 2020), p. 265

"The last time there was an
'America First' rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:"

~ Tristan Snell

#Trump #fascism #Nazis #MadisonSquareGarden
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substack.com/@tristansnell/not…

Tristan Snell on Substack

The last time there was an "America First" rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:

^Substack

They held a fascist rally at Madison Square Gardens.

Right now, my grandfather and tens of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives fighting the Nazis during WWII are turning over in their graves.

#madisonsquaregarden #fascism #republicans #nazis #trump
#election #election2024 #voteblue #vote #democracy

Trump is holding a rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday. It holds 19,500 people. How many will attend? Whatever the number, he'll lie.

You night have read that #Nazis held a rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939. 20,000 people attended.

But you might not have read that "around 100,000 anti-Nazi counter-protesters gathered outside the venue. "
npr.org/sections/codeswitch/20…

Video from event
vimeo.com/237489146

Will there be a counter protest for #fascist #Trump?

In the passages attached below from his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), Charles Marsh chronicles how the drive among Germany's Protestant leaders for a "manly Christianity" played a major role in facilitating Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s.

#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #Hitler #Nazis #churches
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