Holocaust Memorial Day.
Holocaust Memorial Day.
It is and many bad things happened before and since but there are so few survivors of that particular nastiness left that soon people will forget just how bad people can be to people unless we are tolerant.
Don't even know how to say god bless in yid.
Don't even know how to say god bless in yid.
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I'm not as angry about the people who died, as I am about the people who voted for those Nazi fucks to get into power in the first place.
Who will the people vote for next?
Who will the people vote for next?
Up the workers!
Again I can only recommend reading Martin Gilbert's book on World War 2 to give you the preface of how the Nazis came to power. It isn't entirely unreasonable to think it will happen again as traits of the (deliberately?) uneducated masses have not changed much since those days.
You have to recall that Germany got absolutely shafted after WWI by the French in particular, there was huge resentment there along with a disastrous economic collapse, hyper inflation, etc. Out of that hell rose a guy who was able to vocalise (what he saw as) the causes of the Germanic disaster that everyone could easily relate to (i.e. blame another race/religion), and then lay out a plan how to "Make Germany Great Again" - and what's more, once in power, he DID make Germany great again - it is easier to forget how Hitler did change a broken country back into a proud country; and they loved him for it. Forward a few years and then the crazy came out of the bag - to quote The Producers "Peace!! All I want is peace .... a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France ...". After that, the victims were not even classed as humans, which is where you start to see the full sickness of mankind in full view - troops killing babies, then their mothers, then their grandmothers, in that order, just as brutal as it gets to break people.
Take a look at how Farage utterly demonised immigrants in the UK and the response it got from the plebs. The only difference was that the UK whilst not exactly thriving, isn't an utterly broken economy with rationing queues for bread & milk. It is not a massive leap to suggest that if the UK was in that destitute situation like Germany was in the 1920s, and a Farage came along and said "It's all these immigrants fault!!", he'd (a) get voted into power by the frustrated masses, (b) go on to be a total nut-job hell bent on revenge; luckily again unlike Hitler he hasn't been gassed or lost a large number of friends or family only a few years prior in war, else (b) becomes more & more likely.
Hopefully it remains a unique case in history given WW2's proximity to WWI stirring up quite unique circumstances.
You have to recall that Germany got absolutely shafted after WWI by the French in particular, there was huge resentment there along with a disastrous economic collapse, hyper inflation, etc. Out of that hell rose a guy who was able to vocalise (what he saw as) the causes of the Germanic disaster that everyone could easily relate to (i.e. blame another race/religion), and then lay out a plan how to "Make Germany Great Again" - and what's more, once in power, he DID make Germany great again - it is easier to forget how Hitler did change a broken country back into a proud country; and they loved him for it. Forward a few years and then the crazy came out of the bag - to quote The Producers "Peace!! All I want is peace .... a little piece of Poland, a little piece of France ...". After that, the victims were not even classed as humans, which is where you start to see the full sickness of mankind in full view - troops killing babies, then their mothers, then their grandmothers, in that order, just as brutal as it gets to break people.
Take a look at how Farage utterly demonised immigrants in the UK and the response it got from the plebs. The only difference was that the UK whilst not exactly thriving, isn't an utterly broken economy with rationing queues for bread & milk. It is not a massive leap to suggest that if the UK was in that destitute situation like Germany was in the 1920s, and a Farage came along and said "It's all these immigrants fault!!", he'd (a) get voted into power by the frustrated masses, (b) go on to be a total nut-job hell bent on revenge; luckily again unlike Hitler he hasn't been gassed or lost a large number of friends or family only a few years prior in war, else (b) becomes more & more likely.
Hopefully it remains a unique case in history given WW2's proximity to WWI stirring up quite unique circumstances.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Thing is it's not that unique.
Similar but less organised (Germans are good at that) things are happening all over Africa, Syria, Libya etc right now and in the Balkans not that long ago.
As a postscript I'll add I have a lot of time for the Germans I know.
Similar but less organised (Germans are good at that) things are happening all over Africa, Syria, Libya etc right now and in the Balkans not that long ago.
As a postscript I'll add I have a lot of time for the Germans I know.
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In-group and out-group aka.
Allosemitism
Amity-enmity complex
Antilocution
Ambivalent prejudice
Autarky
Bandwagon effect
Benevolent prejudice
Cultural identity
Cronyism
Collective narcissism
Common ingroup identity
Endogamy
Elitism
False consensus effect
Groupthink
Hostile prejudice
Insider
Microculture
Nepotism
Paradox of tolerance
Prejudice
Scapegoating
Sexism
Shibboleth
Social class
Social dominance orientation
Subculture
Uchi-soto
Allosemitism
Amity-enmity complex
Antilocution
Ambivalent prejudice
Autarky
Bandwagon effect
Benevolent prejudice
Cultural identity
Cronyism
Collective narcissism
Common ingroup identity
Endogamy
Elitism
False consensus effect
Groupthink
Hostile prejudice
Insider
Microculture
Nepotism
Paradox of tolerance
Prejudice
Scapegoating
Sexism
Shibboleth
Social class
Social dominance orientation
Subculture
Uchi-soto
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Here is the original film that was shown to German citizens at the end of the war. All the Germans who pretended that they did not know what was happening outside their towns:
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/was-d ... wsource=cl
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/was-d ... wsource=cl
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
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I can't get that link to work?Hanno wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:38 pmHere is the original film that was shown to German citizens at the end of the war. All the Germans who pretended that they did not know what was happening outside their towns:
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/was-d ... wsource=cl
Up the workers!
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OK, here is another link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21dfgbkungfufighter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:14 pmI can't get that link to work?Hanno wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:38 pmHere is the original film that was shown to German citizens at the end of the war. All the Germans who pretended that they did not know what was happening outside their towns:
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/was-d ... wsource=cl
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
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#ThanksHanno wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:34 pmOK, here is another link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21dfgbkungfufighter wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:14 pmI can't get that link to work?Hanno wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:38 pmHere is the original film that was shown to German citizens at the end of the war. All the Germans who pretended that they did not know what was happening outside their towns:
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/was-d ... wsource=cl
Up the workers!
From To Be or Not To Be I think.