"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
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"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
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"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
@Em0nM4stodon Gee. I don't understand why this all sounds so very familiar.
</big freaking sarcasm>
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"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
@Em0nM4stodon Right now is a really important time to be learning about the history of fascism in Europe.
Even if you think you know about Nazi Germany already, how well do you understand *how* it happened?
Did you know that Hitler's movement started initially quite violently, with him going to prison for a failed coup of government? Only after years of sitting in a cell did he organize a movement that would see him demolish democracy by *winning democratically*?
Do you know what the Night Of The Long Knifes is?
Do you know why seemingly normal, good natured Germans voted for Nazis?
Did you know that when Hitler rose to power, he did it with a *minority* of control in the Legislature? Their victory required tactical alliances with moderate Conservatives who believed that Hitler was just a man who said crazy things but wasn't serious about all of it. (Hmm, where have we heard that before?)
Did you know that the Nazi Party was basically always broke, and required heavy volunteer work by dedicated members?
Do you know what the methods of persuasion and political organizing they used?
Now is an incredibly important time to be learning about how Hitler came to power. We aren't going to see a one-to-one correlation with anything modern, but I'll tell you that you will absolutely start to notice trends.
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@Em0nM4stodon Right now is a really important time to be learning about the history of fascism in Europe.
Even if you think you know about Nazi Germany already, how well do you understand *how* it happened?
Did you know that Hitler's movement started initially quite violently, with him going to prison for a failed coup of government? Only after years of sitting in a cell did he organize a movement that would see him demolish democracy by *winning democratically*?
Do you know what the Night Of The Long Knifes is?
Do you know why seemingly normal, good natured Germans voted for Nazis?
Did you know that when Hitler rose to power, he did it with a *minority* of control in the Legislature? Their victory required tactical alliances with moderate Conservatives who believed that Hitler was just a man who said crazy things but wasn't serious about all of it. (Hmm, where have we heard that before?)
Did you know that the Nazi Party was basically always broke, and required heavy volunteer work by dedicated members?
Do you know what the methods of persuasion and political organizing they used?
Now is an incredibly important time to be learning about how Hitler came to power. We aren't going to see a one-to-one correlation with anything modern, but I'll tell you that you will absolutely start to notice trends.
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@Em0nM4stodon Right now is a really important time to be learning about the history of fascism in Europe.
Even if you think you know about Nazi Germany already, how well do you understand *how* it happened?
Did you know that Hitler's movement started initially quite violently, with him going to prison for a failed coup of government? Only after years of sitting in a cell did he organize a movement that would see him demolish democracy by *winning democratically*?
Do you know what the Night Of The Long Knifes is?
Do you know why seemingly normal, good natured Germans voted for Nazis?
Did you know that when Hitler rose to power, he did it with a *minority* of control in the Legislature? Their victory required tactical alliances with moderate Conservatives who believed that Hitler was just a man who said crazy things but wasn't serious about all of it. (Hmm, where have we heard that before?)
Did you know that the Nazi Party was basically always broke, and required heavy volunteer work by dedicated members?
Do you know what the methods of persuasion and political organizing they used?
Now is an incredibly important time to be learning about how Hitler came to power. We aren't going to see a one-to-one correlation with anything modern, but I'll tell you that you will absolutely start to notice trends.
@Em0nM4stodon Wikipedia is a great place to learn at first. After getting the overview, you should start reading books or watching documentaries or something.
Right now I'm reading "The Nazi Movement" by Theodore Abel (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL42887763M/The_Nazi_movement). It was written during WWII and focuses on *how the nazis came to power*.
It includes actual autobiographical snippets written by German Nazis that were sent in to the author willingly. They had pretty loose lips because they were still in power.
The author basically takes an ethnographic approach, rather than a sociological one in order to attempt to analyze the political movement and its unfortunate success.
I'm sure there's lots of other great books out there as well. Just read *something*, it's incredibly important to know history.
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"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
@Em0nM4stodon the documentary Nazi Concentration Camps shot in March 1945 is available to be viewed for free on internet archive as well. There's no more first hand of an account than that as to what the "end goal" of these MAGA fascists is.
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"The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters, career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.
Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens."
These last few days, like none before, have convinced me we are here again.
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@Em0nM4stodon Wikipedia is a great place to learn at first. After getting the overview, you should start reading books or watching documentaries or something.
Right now I'm reading "The Nazi Movement" by Theodore Abel (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL42887763M/The_Nazi_movement). It was written during WWII and focuses on *how the nazis came to power*.
It includes actual autobiographical snippets written by German Nazis that were sent in to the author willingly. They had pretty loose lips because they were still in power.
The author basically takes an ethnographic approach, rather than a sociological one in order to attempt to analyze the political movement and its unfortunate success.
I'm sure there's lots of other great books out there as well. Just read *something*, it's incredibly important to know history.
@riverpunk @Em0nM4stodon Let me jump into the conversation with one of my new favorites: Uwe Wittstock, February 33 - The Winter of Literature
Writers, Artists and others who recognized - some too late - what was going on. Some died, some fled, some became collabos. -
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