Posted on 02/10/2017 10:32:52 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A popular talking point on the left is that Donald Trump has things in common with Hitler.
We talked with Marion Ingebore Andrews, who goes by Inga. She was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1940 during Hitler's reign.
But is this the case? Independent Journal Review decided to speak to a woman born in Nazi Germany about the comparison.
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While most kids were playing with friends, Andrews was hiding in air raid shelters and helping to clean up the rubble from destroyed buildings to rebuild her city.
Inga Andrews
Andrews said:
"What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn't mean they're like a dictator.
What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn't Trump, it's the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses — the agendas fueled by the professors.
That's how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it's happening today."
Andrews drove home her point further for the younger generation:
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"It saddens me that we are teaching garbage in the schools and in the college. We don't teach history anymore. History repeats itself over and over.
The kids out there today haven't ever lived through a war like I did. I remember sitting in a rock pile, cleaning rocks, to rebuild Germany. I remember eating maple leaves and grass to survive."
She later made it to U.S. when her mother married an American, but her journey wasn't without hurdles. Inga Andrews
"It took six years because she had worked in Germany. It took six years to clear her to be able to be married. Then when you married an American, because we were the enemy, you had to wait.
We had to go from Heidelberg to Bremerhaven where another camp was. This camp was run by the U.S. military. They vetted us in both places. There were all these German brides with their children and families who had to be vetted again for three of four days before they could get on the ship.
The ship we took was the U.S.S. Washington. We arrived in New York in March of 1953. My mother, Meta Weinbach, and I still had the last name Muller.
So we had a vetting process like what we are going through now because you have to have this to make the country safe."
Then Andrews had some choice words for the protesters in the streets destroying property:
"America needs to grow up. The young people who are rioting and destroying property, who have no respect for elders and freedom of speech, I was so proud to become a citizen of this country."
She opened up about how she accepted American culture and values:
Inga Andrews
Andrews continued on about her desire to become an American:
"At school, they put me in first grade even though I was a teenager because I didn't speak English. The teachers would take time at their lunch time to teach us how to speak English.
But they came to find out that I was hiding in the bathroom stall with my legs up eating my braunschweiger and onion sandwich, so nobody would talk to me.
Still, I had a burning desire to be an American. I went to night school to learn English. I would practice English without a German accent. I didn't want to be German. I wanted to be an American.
When I was fourteen, I was working in a drug store reading comic books. Through reading comic books, I developed my English skills.
We would go to the malls and we wouldn't speak our foreign language, we would speak English. Because we believed we needed to honor the country that opened its doors for us. It was rude to do otherwise."
Andrews returned to the present day with a message for those attacking freedom of speech:
"Professors shouldn't be telling their students to go after freedom of speech. They should be telling them that this is the greatest country in the world.
The demonstrators can't tell you why they're demonstrating. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I just want the country to be at peace.
I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it's terrifying. It's sad. But it's not because of Trump. It's because of poor education.
Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is."
She finished by sharing a personal story.
“I had an aunt who was in the Olympics. My aunt got all this extra stuff from Hitler and was surrounded by this propaganda,” she said, before explaining how she couldn't keep a relationship with her aunt. “I couldn't have anything to do with her. Even after the war, she was calling the Jewish people, of whom I was friends with, 'dirty Jews.'”
“My point in saying all this is that if people aren't able to see outside of one world view, that's what happens,” Andrews concluded. “They buy the propaganda. And that's what is happening today. And if people aren't educated properly and given the ability to think freely — we will repeat that history.”
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A sea full of young american women in the pic above.
thank God American working class men turned out in droves this time.
The scary part is these kids will be voting for another 70 years.
Liberal or Conservative, every Jew should be repulsed by the comparison.
Liberal Jewish folk, your “side” is comparing deportment of illegals to the horrific deaths of 6 million of your own, and hitler won, had he would have slaughtered 6 million more.
So little kids being gassed to death or having horrible atrocities forced upon them by sick, sadistic doctors is the same as an illegal border crosser being sent home.
Makes sense
If you’re a liberal
Most of the snowflakes don’t have a clue who Hitler was. Most think he was the King of Vietnam during the Vietnam war.
Impressive. I wonder how many immigrants have that attitude today.
The Trump-Hitler “connection” is incomparably weaker than the connection between that Nazi and a genuine socialist (Obama) or a genuine tyrant (Hillary), but that should be obvious. As for the article, the experiences of a girl who was 4 when Hitler committed suicide are irrelevant.
the difference between Internatiional Socialists ( Obama - Hillary - Bush - Stalin ) and National Socialists ( Hilter - Mussolini - McCain ) is nil
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I think Soros is following Hitler’s blueprint to create the same conditions that allowed him to rise to power and I believe Obama was supposed to be his Hitler but got distracted and spoilec by golfing and the wealthy lifestyle do the torch got passed to ValJar to take care of the dirty work. And I bet Soros was disappointed that Obama didn’t get all of the bullet list completed, especially removal of he 2nd Amendment. If he had accomplished that it would’ve been game over and the Shariaites would probably have succeeded.
I think Soros is following Hitler’s blueprint to create the same conditions that allowed him to rise to power and I believe Obama was supposed to be his Hitler but got distracted and spoiled by golfing and the wealthy lifestyle so the torch got passed to ValJar to take care of the dirty work. And I bet Soros was disappointed that Obama didn’t get all of the bullet list completed, especially removal of he 2nd Amendment. If he had accomplished that it would’ve been game over and the Shariaites would probably have succeeded.
Children who remember and can articulate experiences are not irrelevant regardless of age. To say that a person who was 4 and then was increasingly older as she had more and more experiences that confirmed the earlier experiences she could articulate is relevant.
The fact that her experiences were not your experiences just means you were fortunate and, clearly, uninformed about what young children experiencing trauma remember.
The point of the article was simply to describe what an earlier young immigrant did once in the USA...and it was just as many immigrants do today. Her family apparently totally appreciated being in the USA and she still honors that.
I think many of us laugh when Trump is compared and likened to Hitler. It just describes in a nutshell their ignorance. Few of us got our panties in a twist over that.
She didn’t immigrate until 1953. She probably remembers life in Germany in the difficult years following the war. Germany was still being rehabilitated. Lots of ex-Nazis still around, I would think.
“Lots of ex-Nazis still around, I would think.”
OK. Let’s put this proposition to the test. A baby born in the last year of Hitler’s Germany (1944) and granted NAZI status on birth would be going on 73 now. So other than the granting on birth idea, any ex-NAZI would be in late 80’s or 90s. Not too many people live that long, given the horrific post-war Germany living conditions, not to mention the Russians treatment of NAZIs and Germans in general. There may be some, but not ‘lots’.
I agree with her conclusions, but I don’t think having lived in Nazi Germany at that age has any relevance at all to supporting that conclusion.
No, I was referring to ex-Nazis being still around at the time this woman was still a child. She was born in 1940, and immigrated in 1953. She probably has memories. I didn’t mean ex-Nazis living today.
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I'd say most snowflakes think Hitler is the mastermind behind a league of super-villains whose plans are foiled by the Avengers and Superman.
As for the article, the experiences of a girl who was 4 when Hitler committed suicide are irrelevant.
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You freaking idiot, enlighten us as to why it’s irrelevant.
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