A lesson for today - 80 years old
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My Dear Friend,
How can we save democracy?
By learning from the past.
Here is an example from my hometown.
"The right bank of the Tauber was under fire from the Sprait by American artillery. A shell hit a house on Julius-Berberich-Straße, killing eight people, including Sparkassen director Emmerich Helmuth and his wife, who had sought shelter in the basement."
This is how World War II ended 80 years ago in Tauberbischofsheim, in the south of Germany.
There is a chronicle about this time and town (only in German).
It is a chronicle of horror that also shows how systematically, efficiently, and quickly the Nazi regime controlled all social institutions after 1933.
How did this succeed so quickly?
Certainly, because support for Hitler and his Nazi party was high. In the last elections in January 1933, 40 per cent of Tauberbischofsheim residents voted for the NSDAP.
✊ This chronicle serves as a strong argument for a democracy to withdraw support and the right to exist from those political parties whose presumed goal is to end democracy. Speculation must suffice here. Because by the time there is certainty, it's too late.
See you in Democracy,
Johannes
Indeed brother, unfortunately, not enough ppl in the U.S. have awoken, because they’ve been been brainwashed by right wing propagandists who say being “woke” aka “awake” is “weak”, “wrong” & “unchristian”, the most Insidious spell to cast on those who already feel *not enough/less,* is to keep them asleep. It’s so easy to control folks who have lost control & lack & critical thinking skills/the intellect to wake up.
It’s so easy for the Regime to prey on the more simple folks. That’s why *like Hitler* one goal is to eradicate the intellectualls who have always seen right through their psychopathy.