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Ex-Hitler youth's warning to America:'Every day brings this nation closer to totalitarian abyss'
WorldNetDaily ^ | November 13, 2008 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 11/13/2008 1:30:12 PM PST by Beloved Levinite

Ex-Hitler youth's warning to America 'Every day brings this nation closer to Nazi-style totalitarian abyss'

Posted: November 13, 2008 1:00 am Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – Because it has abandoned moral absolutes and its historic Christian faith, the U.S. is moving closer to a Nazi-style totalitarianism, warns a former German member of the Hitler Youth in a new book.

"Every day brings this nation closer to a Nazi-style totalitarian abyss," writes Hilmar von Campe, now a U.S. citizen, and author of "Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America."

Von Campe has founded the national Institute for Truth and Freedom to fight for a return to constitutional government in the U.S. – a key, he believes, to keeping America free.

"I lived the Nazi nightmare, and, as the old saying goes, 'A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument,'" writes von Campe. "Everything I write is based on my personal experience in Nazi Germany. There is nothing theoretical about my description of what happens when a nation throws God out of government and society, and Christians become religious bystanders. I don't want to see a repetition. The role of God in human society is the decisive issue for this generation. My writing is part of my life of restitution for the crimes of a godless government, of the evil of which I was a part."

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Important & timely article. But alas, the sheeple shall ignore the warning signs. ;(
1 posted on 11/13/2008 1:30:13 PM PST by Beloved Levinite
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To: Beloved Levinite

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2 posted on 11/13/2008 2:53:28 PM PST by Kadric
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To: Beloved Levinite
Yes but we have the 2nd amendment guard rail there.
3 posted on 11/13/2008 2:53:45 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead; AuntB

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4 posted on 11/13/2008 2:54:14 PM PST by Issaquahking (Obama won the election, and America lost!)
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To: Beloved Levinite

bump...


5 posted on 11/13/2008 2:55:29 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: Nightshift

gnip...


6 posted on 11/13/2008 2:55:47 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: Beloved Levinite

Because that is what Sheep do.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 2:56:28 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: Beloved Levinite; AuntB; ExTexasRedhead

Ping


8 posted on 11/13/2008 2:56:52 PM PST by Issaquahking (Obama won the election, and America lost!)
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From a bookmarked post on FR some years ago:

 

"THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45"
by Milton Mayer
The University of Chicago Press

From the chapter, "But then it was too late" pages 169 to 172, 1966 edition.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?---well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'

"And you ARE an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh- pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have."

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to---to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait."

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worse act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked---if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jew swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in---your nation, your people--- is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibilty even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succesion of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably everyday, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany could not have imagined."

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done, (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the University when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair."

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"You are compromised beyond repair"? I don't agree. You are not compromised beyond repair -- you can always change and work against what you supported, tacitly or actively. Saul the antagonist is better remembered as Paul the defender. (Need I add this is a Christian reference?)

Would that it were only you that were compromised.

What has really happened is that you compromised your society beyond repair. You stood by and did nothing when those with an agenda of destruction worked their changes, bit by bit, because it was always easier, it was always safer, it was always less costly, at any particular time to do nothing than to stand up.

And you did nothing when those who did stand up were attacked for their stance -- perhaps the time, or the issue, or the person wasn't right for you. But whatever the reason, the outcome is the same: your society is corrupted beyond repair.

Return for a minute to the judicial system: How is it that rights assumed to be inherent, or at least explicitly laid out in the constitution, somehow no longer exist? And how is that "rights" not found in the constitution somehow manage to be predominant in our society today?

The answer is, as I asserted earlier, that the judiciary is not a playground, it's a battleground.

And we're losing.

Because we're not fighting.

(The focus of that thread was on the judiciary...)
9 posted on 11/13/2008 3:01:22 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: Beloved Levinite

“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism”

- Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959


10 posted on 11/13/2008 3:03:27 PM PST by Marauder (Who shall say howqztNj wodrmf?)
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To: Cheetahcat
"Yes but we have the 2nd amendment guard rail there."

And how long until the termites undermine THAT safety rail? They will demand, and get, "sensible" gun control laws, there will be an excise tax put on ammunition which effectively increases the cost by 5,000% or so, there will be "re-registration" fees, which if the deadline is missed by a day, it cannot be reinstated without an unusual amount of paperwork, and there will be a "popular outcry" every time any kind of firearm is used in a home defense, as the rights of the trespasser had been violated.

As if trespassers HAD any rights, once they cross onto a property without permission.

11 posted on 11/13/2008 3:08:29 PM PST by alloysteel (Molon labe! Roughly translated, "Come and take them!" referring to personal weapons.)
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To: Cheetahcat

One thing about Americans is that we are not very good at toeing the line and we resent authority especially when it is thrown in our faces.

It’s a good way to be.


12 posted on 11/13/2008 3:08:41 PM PST by montomike (If you didn't find this funny or amusing...have a worldwide riot.)
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To: Cheetahcat

Small arms, while I personally cling to mine, are largely useless against the power of US military.

Witness Iraq, for the counter-example.


13 posted on 11/13/2008 3:09:35 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Michael Savage = Tokio Rose of Talk Radio = Purpose is to Demoralize the Right)
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To: Marauder

Re: “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism”

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And we are well on our way now!!!!

As a 10 year old I recall hearing a lot about Khrushchev — and his statement: “We will bury you.” We had “drop drills” and some had bomb shelters and we thought a lot about the Russians and life behind the “iron curtain.”

As an adult I visited the old Soviet Union due to my extreme curiosity about the region. It was still Communist at the time (mid seventies). The differences between Communism and Capitalism are staggering.

Now I see us moving closer and closer to full on socialism in the U.S., just a hop, skip and jump from communism. It’s not pretty; I’m glad I’m getting old...........


14 posted on 11/13/2008 3:10:14 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: sionnsar

THANK YOU!

I have heard that quote, unattributed, on an audio history course many times but never had the source.

Excellent. Thanks again.


15 posted on 11/13/2008 3:10:58 PM PST by Petronski (Things fall apart, it's scientific.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Except 60-70% of the military would have no part of it. Now, a certain organization, let’s call it a “Civilian National Defense Force,” armed and funded as well as the military...that could be a problem...


16 posted on 11/13/2008 3:18:23 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Beloved Levinite

von Campe better be careful - he may just wind up being one of the half-dozen people this country deports next year.


17 posted on 11/13/2008 3:20:57 PM PST by skeeter (Its Barry's fault)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Yeah, the Obama Gestapo.


18 posted on 11/13/2008 3:23:22 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Michael Savage = Tokio Rose of Talk Radio = Purpose is to Demoralize the Right)
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To: Beloved Levinite

If Chambliss loses and the Democrats have sixty seats in the Senate we are there. They will constrain Civil liberties, increase taxes and regulation, pack the courts and so trick up the system there will be no getting them out short of revolution.


19 posted on 11/13/2008 3:26:14 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Future Snake Eater
Now, a certain organization, let’s call it a “Civilian National Defense Force,” armed and funded as well as the military...that could be a problem...

I wonder if the democrats in congress would go along with this

They ain't stupid and they love THEIR power

The Defense Force could be used by Obama against THEM when he wants to be made Emperor for LIFE
20 posted on 11/13/2008 3:29:25 PM PST by uncbob
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