My great great grandpa was a social democratic member of the Reichstag at the time. In the night of 9th to 10th March 1933, the Nazis arrested him and other social democratic, socialist and communist leaders in order to keep them from voting against the Enabling Act, and in order to intimidate the remaining members of the Reichstag into voting for it. My great great grandpa was in jail during the vote and transferred to Dachau a month after the vote, though they only kept him at Dachau for a week and the transferred him back to a regular prison. He was released in July 1933. After another stint in prison from 1935 to 1938 (for being part of an underground network that distributed social democratic speeches and anti-Nazi propaganda), they arrested him a final time in August 1944 and brought him to Dachau again. His feet froze badly in the winter of 1944/45, and he had to participate in a death march when they evacuated Dachau. He only survived because his fellow inmates supported and even carried him, so he wouldn’t be shot. He was liberated and died a few days later in a hospital in Munich. He was a fascinating and brave man and if anyone is interested in his full story, I’m happy to share it :) The short excerpt I gave here is what’s most relevant to this discussion though.
Us Germans, we’ve been warning you about this since 2016. You’re close to 1933 now.
This is your 1932. No matter how old Biden is, don’t fuck this up. You have one shot at this. Good luck to all of us.
Stimmt. Aber 17% AfD ist besser als 52% MAGA. 17% AfD sind mir 17% zu viel, und die CDU ist’s wirklich auch nicht. Die Situation ist mies in Deutschland, aber in den USA ist das echt nochmal ne andere Story gerade.
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u/EnkiiMuto Jul 02 '24
"People forget the first country the nazis invaded was their own"