[CondoleezzaProtege]

2016 before she died last year, the secretary of Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels dismissed the idea that she’d done anything wrong—and that others would have done anything different, had they been in her shoes. “Really,” she said. “I didn’t do anything other than type in Goebbels’ office. Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis—I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.”

That is Jordan Peterson’s fundamental point—that most of us wouldn’t have done anything. History—which we no longer know—proves that he is right. Not knowing history allows us to delude ourselves into thinking that we are good people who might have done great and courageous things had we been given the chance, while often avoiding any opportunity to do anything good or self-sacrificial now. To forget history is to in a very real sense forget who we are and assume that we are morally superior to our ancestors. And it means that we can blithely ignore such things as they begin to happen again, perhaps to other groups of human beings this time.

- Jonathon Van Maren

[redgolum]

My Grandfather hated few things.

1. Woodrow Wilson.
2. Nazi’s (we are Saxon and HATE the Prussians)
3. Much lower on the list, Swedes.

But today, the Nazi flag doesn’t have the connection it did to our fathers. It is a movie prop.

Most don’t know what happened anymore than what happened with Napoleon.

[dfwgator]

Ever wonder what you would be doing during The Holocaust? You’re doing it now.

[BBQToadRibs2]

Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is also a fascinating read.

[Seruzawa]

“That is Jordan Peterson’s fundamental point—that most of us wouldn’t have done anything.”

This is correct. Most people now aren’t doing anything about human trafficking, medical oppression or stolen elections. “Doo dah doo dah, what’s on Netflix tonight? Better check my Tiktok feed.”

[skeeter]

The German people didn’t allow the holocaust because they felt their whiteness made them superior we are often told, they went along with it because they were convinced by the Nazis to fear the Jews.

Its an important distinction and one we’d best consider when looking at whats happening today.

[cuban leaf]

The rise and fall of the third reich, in its entirety, is now available for free on YouTube as an audiobook. But it’s in about seven parts each one is many hours long. Good background music for your commute or while working in the shop. :-)

[packagingguy]

“Suddenly, young men can march with Nazi flags in American streets, even though some probably had grandfathers who took up arms against the last bearers of that flag.”

Otherwise a reasonable article, but what does this sentence mean? Does the author mean “young men could be marching...”?

Has anybody seen anyone walking around with a Nazi flag?

[dfwgator]

Also, I highly recommend this, IMHO much better than “Conspiracy”

Die Wannseekonferenz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAjKUdT3JE

[Albion Wilde]