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.”
UPDATE 2/10/2017 at 3:40 PM EST
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.
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Well and truly said. Pollster1 is probably a snowflake living in his Mommy’s basement.
Single generation problem, since their chances of successfully reproducing while possessing these Leftist attitudes are minimal. :)
But our problems all stem from the Left's takeover of government education. If I were Trump. fighting that would be one of my top three priorities.
All those young people marching reminds me of this song from CABARET.
The sun on the meadow is summery warm
The stag in the forest runs free
But gather together to greet the storm
Tomorrow belongs to me
The branch of the linden is leafy and green
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
Tomorrow belongs to me
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee
But soon, says a whisper
“Arise, arise, tomorrow belongs
To me!”
At the end, the singer puts on his nazi hat and gives the nazi salute. All the YOUNG PEOPLE, with mush for brains, are standing, saluting and singing. The old wiser ones refuse.
Wow. I thought it was just a song and dance show. Sounds a little deep.
How crazy is it when these liberals try to portray Trump as Hitler when there guru and financial backer, Soros, is an actual Nazi?
Compare the opening scenes of CABARET in which a man in a nazi uniform is kicked (and I do mean kicked)out, and the closing scene.
A funny, crude, decadent, irreverent, and slowly frightening movie of 1920s and 1930s Germany.
Crazy? The endlessly repeated "big lie," was the tactic both of the German Nazis and the clearly mislabeled American "liberals," for as long as one can remember.
Understand, underpinning both the original Nazis and the 20th Century American Left was & is, a Compulsion For Uniformity. Neither the Nazis nor America's notorious pseudo "Liberals," can ever tolerate the concept of an individual, thinking for himself or herself, and aspiring to rise above the psychology of the mob.
Is there any difference between what Leftist mobs are now doing on American campuses, and what the Nazi enforcer, Ernst Roehm & his Brownshirts, did in the streets of Germany on Hitler's path to power?
People are defined by their nature & behavior, not by the names they adopt.
I never saw it on Broadway. If it is the movie I will rent it. Sounds interesting.
“How crazy is it when these liberals try to portray Trump as Hitler when there guru and financial backer, Soros, is an actual Nazi?”
What percentage of those “marchers”(rioting thugs) would know who Hitler was,, what he did,to what countries/peoples he did those things to ? Suspect it is in the single digits.....
Ignorant, maybe not stupid, fools who will be asking for the GUBMINT to help them the rest of their lives because they can contribute Nothing, Nada, Zilch !
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As a freaking idiot, I don't think her personal observations of life under Nazi government would be terribly deep. They would be comparable to an American's memories of FDR, if they started Kindergarten under Truman.
"Mommy kept making me take naps" or "too many loud noises" or "yucky food" or "Daddy was always gone" is about all she might remember. To have a Trump-Hitler comparison with any relevance to having lived in Nazi Germany, I'd want to hear from someone who was at least 16 y/o before Hitler died. Otherwise, it's no more informative that the thoughts of someone who read history books.
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