1930 Germany Who would you be?

We have all watched Shindlers List, and most of us identify with him, and believe we
would do the same things he did. But would we? The German people were first told
that the Jews were stupid and uneducated, and they said yes. Then they were told
the Jews were money hungry, and would steal people blind, and they said yes.
Then they cut off the Jewish publications, and censored them, the people said Yes.

Then they told the people that the Jews needed to be re-educated, and took them
away on trains to be educated. The German people again said yes.

Am I the only one that can see that happening again? Most German people did
not know about the death camps, because the government approved media did
not tell them.

Who would you be?

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22Michelle · 70-79, T

Remember, that even at the height of it's popularity, with all tge resources and power of being in Government in 1933 the Nazis could only get around a third of votes cast. The real threat is not from tge extremists, it's the people who can't be bothered to vote, who fall for the "they're all the same" and / or " we need somebody in charge who'll make the country great again".

As for me I'd love to think I'd be fighting the fascists on the streets, but depending how old I was, my upbringing, my peers, etc I could easily have been seduced by the rhetoric, the uniforms and the promises of bringing my country back to being a world power. Truth nobody knows how they would have reacted, but if you believe you'd be one of the few openly battling the Nazis then it's pretty certain you'd be a Brownshirt.

NativePortlander1970

@22Michelle The thing is that those who pay attention are the ones that vote their conscience, not what's popular, that's how the US got so fucked up since Reagan.

22Michelle · 70-79, T

@NativePortlander1970 I understand what you're saying, but I very much doubt the people who vote for fascism have a conscience.

NativePortlander1970

@22Michelle You're correct, modern rank and file dem voters have no brains.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@22Michelle I take offense to your subtle way of equating people that want to
make their country great, with Nazis. It is the left that is pushing ideology on
people, and punishing those that do not comply. They are the ones fighting
the freedom of speech, and also the ones trying to abolish the 2nd amendment
in order to control more people, and force the far left narrative down our throats.

Progressives, and Nazis, have far too much in common.

22Michelle · 70-79, T

@DogMan Want to make their country great again, that's straight out of the Nazi playbook. You've drank the Koolaid.

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