Could ordinary Americans embrace socialism?

American Thinker ^ | 23 Mar, 2021 | Robin Itzler

[MtnClimber]

Watching images of a bustling Berlin in 1927, and realizing how quickly it embraced National Socialism, is a reminder that this can happen anywhere.

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Could everyday ordinary Americans, just as easily, or eventually, embrace socialism? One would be naive to dismiss the possibility given the results of many respected polls and especially those taken of young Americans.

Had the German signage been hidden, viewers might have thought it was 1927 London, Paris, or Manhattan. Just another lively metropolis with people going about their ordinary lives. Traveling to work on trains or buses, eating in restaurants, delivering packages by horse-drawn carts, taking children to playgrounds, visiting the city zoo, sitting and talking with friends, walking down streets, cleaning or sweeping in front of homes, shopping in stores filled with the latest clothes and furniture … everyday ordinary people leading everyday ordinary lives on a very ordinary day.

Did some of those everyday ordinary people shown in the film paint “Juden” on store windows or beat Jews while Germans shouted their approval and police stood idly by watching the cruelty? Did some of those same lips that smiled in the film’s festive restaurant scenes also smile when Jews were forced to clean dirty streets using toothbrushes?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I will check that out. Thanks.

In my 20s, I read Leon Uris’ “Mila 18.” It was the first id heard of the Warsaw Ghetto and I was blown away. Not a single history class in High School or college covered any aspect of the Holocaust. That was 25-30 years after those events.

When my daughter studied in Italy in high school, her host family took us to the concentration camp in Carpi. That was the first time I realized the geographic extent of the camp system and the scale of that operation.

Just a couple months ago, while studying genealogical ancestors in Danzig, Germany, I learned how many camps there were in that region.

[sport]

I read it also. It was good. He also wrote a good one on the Berlin Airlift. I found one at a used Book Store and bought it. I have learned through experience, as Napoleon is said to have said, “History is fiction agreed upon.” Thanks for sharing the information.