Posted on 01/27/2022 4:34:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
Being a passive spectator results in the emboldening of totalitarians.
The Holocaust is among the darkest chapters in the history of mankind. It was the first time an entire people were systematically targeted, discriminated against, persecuted, and murdered on an industrial scale for their religious persuasion.
But this genocide against the Jewish people did not occur in a vacuum. The Holocaust was the result of a prolonged and sinister campaign against the Jewish people.
While the shocking nature of barbarism, violence, and mass murder causes the Holocaust to the focal point of historians, the Nazi strategy that enable them to systemically target an entire people without much resistance needs to be studied.
SNIP
Demonization
The Nazis propogandists falsely claimed that the Jews exploited the misery of World War 1 to enrich themselves and that Jews dominated the peace negotiations and caused the nation to "surrender" causing permanent "enslavement."
Propaganda via mass media
Under the Nazis, the mainstream media was co-opted and the dissenting press was shut down. There was no difference between utterances from the Nazi regime and what appeared in the print and on the radio. The movie industry was also co-opted to make propaganda films, that masquerade as regular films.
Newspapers such as Der Stürmer regularly carried cartoons with unaesthetic caricatures of Jews. Filmmakers carried pro-Nazi messages while they demeaned Jews in their films.
Jewish classical composers, such as Mendelssohn and Mahler, were banned while Wagner was promoted
It was a sinister strategy of propaganda and censorship to brainwash a people against the Jews which would create grounds for persecution.
Co-opting Academia
Universities in Nazi Germany were strictly controlled by Nazis. All Jewish faculty members were dismissed, creating career opportunities that were popular with non-Jewish faculty and students.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This seems to be what our very own leftists are doing to white people. They are already importing the replacement citizens.
Years ago, when it was new, I toured the Holocaust Museum in Washington with my boss at his insistence. It is a most impressive museum and institution. When we were done with our tour and walking to the car outside, my boss commented on the horror man could commit against man. I asked him if he thought that was the point of the museum. He asked me what I thought the point of museum was. I told him it’s to demonstrate the horror of government power and what it could do to humanity. We walked a few more blocks and he stopped and looked at me and said, “I think you’re right.“
IMO "Schindler's List" is the single most important English language film ever made. But I wonder if an Asian film could be made that mirrors Schindler? Was there a Japanese version of Oskar Schindler?
Just sayin'...
The US government is forcing its warped ideology on all of us.
We need to remember the Ukrainian holocaust too.
* Supremely Traitorous Court of the United States.
We generally don’t put a lot of emphasis on the fact that some of the Germans in the Third Reich were decent people who were unhappy with the government. Same in Imperial Japan. Sure, some people like Sophie Scholl or Oskar Schindler, but mostly we just say that Germany and Japan were the Bad Guys.
I look at America today and I know we have some decent people here. But, for me, America today is the Bad Guy. We are not a force for good in this world. Haven’t been for a long time.
Walking around the museum was spooky beyond belief. The actual buildings had been torn down but the photos I saw in the book they gave me made it easy to imagine them.
As for "it will happen again"...it already has,at least once. Tutsi vs Hutu in Rwanda.
And Armenian...
Our deep state government has become like the mafia. They cannot tolerate someone who has the power and will to fight the corruption. Most of our government should be in prison and treated like the Jan, 6 protesters are being treated.
“Was there a Japanese version of Oskar Schindler?”
Highly doubtful.
The Chrysanthemum Throne is ancient.
As a ruler the Emperor of Japan is a member of the world’s oldest hereditary line. Today’s emperor can trace his lineage back to emperor Jimmu (Divine Might), the first Emperor of Japan, who sat the throne 660-585 BC.
No other Royal Lineage can make that boast.
The degree of worship the Emperor received was extraordinary by any measure. Hitler and Mussolini could only dream of the level of diety worship the EoJ took as his due. The Kim family of NK are the only ones whose level of implied diety is equivalent. And they’re pikers by comparison.
Up until the end of WW2 no Japanese could/would defy the Emperor. It would have been easier for fire not to burn than for a Japanese citizen to defy the Emperor.
The war came to an end because the Emperor wished it.
It is a small victory for humanity; try as they might, the Nazi Leftists could not erase this girl. Memory of her still remains 80 years later. Viewing this film is an appropriate way to remember the Holocaust with yet another human face, and not as bare statistics.
Thanks for the post and the links!
There are good people everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara
Unfortunately there are times in history when “mass psychosis” and the “asch conformity effect” prevail.
Google asch conformity.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
Combine that with state propaganda and you have compliant sheeple, soon followed by tragedy.
Psychopaths who aspire to power keep it as one of many arrows in their quivers.
Never forget.
Covid proves people forgot.
I agree.
It's interesting, the role reversal. I'm old enough to remember when "hating America" was associated with the Left. Conservatives would say, "Love it or leave it."
But these days I hear many conservatives lamenting that the U.S. is a force for evil.
Not the Conservative Inc. bunch. Dennis Prager, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, they're still "America! Rah-Rah! We must liberate the world!"
But it's interesting that so many rank & file conservatives no longer listen to the Conservative Inc. cheerleaders. I suppose we're no longer really conservatives. We're populists, or nationalists.
I guess that's what the Trump revolt was about. America Firsters seeing how this country has fallen, tired of the empty cheer-leading and nation-building, and wanting to set things right at home.
Unfortunately true.
And if the Jews were fleeing Soviets, this isn't really a Holocaust story, but an anti-Communist story. Yet I've heard Sugihara depicted as a hero of the Holocaust.
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