If you ever think history impressive or grand, here’s a story for you:
Right after ww2, Jews were freed, but basically had no citizenship to speak of, and the allied forces weren’t that!helpful. So a group called the TTG was formed to help emigrate (read: smuggle) Jews from Central Europe, to Mediterranean ports, where they would take boats to Israel.
The TTG did this by piling the Jewish refugees into trucks bearing British insignia, their operatives dressing up as British soldiers, and just openly driving to port cities.
If they were ever stopped by actual military forces, they would say they were a part of a covert supply missing, under special orders from Major Tuches. They would stress that the contents of the trucks was super secret and to not be disturbed under any circumstances. They saved over 300,000 Jews like this.
If that sounds reasonable to you, here’s the thing: TTG stands for Tilhas Teezee Gesheften, and the operatives named one Major Tuches as their commanding officer whenever they needed to.
Or, to translate that into English, the event that saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees was called Operation Kiss My Ass led by Major Asshole.
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
Quote from Traudl Junge, Hitler’s private secretary from 1942-45:
Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn’t able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn’t personally to blame and that I hadn’t known about those things. I wasn’t aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.
my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba
Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.
Sometimes a family is you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, and the 15 Jewish families you helped smuggle out of Nazi Germany.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history. She visited with President Franklin
Roosevelt, becoming the first Soviet citizen to be welcomed at the White
House. Afterward, Eleanor Roosevelt asked Lyudmila to
accompany her on a tour of the country and tell Americans of her
experiences as a woman in combat. Pavlichenko was only 25, but she had
been wounded four times in battle. ↳more х,х,х | gifs from Battle for Sevastopol 2015 trailer.
this is her
I never tire of reblogging this hero…
Battle for Sevastopol is streaming on Prime! I know what I’m watching tonight.
“In the spring of 1940, when the Nazis overran France from the north, much of its Jewish population tried to escape the country towards the south. In order to cross the border, they needed visas to Spain and Portugal, and together with a flood of other refugees, tens of thousands of Jews besieged the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux in a desperate attempt to get that life-saving piece of paper. The Portuguese government forbade its consuls in France to issue visas without prior approval from the Foreign Ministry, but the consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, decided to disregard the order, throwing to the wind a thirty-year diplomatic career. As Nazi tanks were closing in on Bordeaux, Sousa Mendes and his team worked around the clock for ten days and nights, barely stopping to sleep, just issuing visas and stamping pieces of paper. Sousa Mendes issued thousands of visas before collapsing from exhaustion.
The Portuguese government—which had little desire to accept any of these refugees—sent agents to escort the disobedient consul back home, and fired him from the foreign office. Yet officials who cared little for the plight of human beings nevertheless had a deep reverence for documents, and the visas Sousa Mendes issued against orders were respected by French, Spanish and Portuguese bureaucrats alike, spiriting up to 30,000 people out of the Nazi death trap. Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.”
—Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.
The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).
The full translation of the cover would be
HIS STRUGGLE
Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:
How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America
When Germans call you a Nazi….
I see so much commentary in the tags about how Trump can’t be a Nazi because he’s pro-Israel, and I’m sitting here like, guys. Children. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else (ring a bell?) while undermining democratic values (RING A BELL?) and being blatantly racist (RING A… you know what, forget it, you’re not listening to me anyway).
Instead of anti-communism you now have fierce pro-capitalism and instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred. You already have the denunciations and people walking from door to door trying to root out “illegals.”
Current US politics may not involve any gas chambers, but Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!” either. If you honestly think US policies won’t escalate further, especially if Trump gets a second term, you’re standing chin-deep in denial.
As Jewish people have consistently pointed out: Trump also DOES surround himself with a lot of prominent antisemites.
Which is consistent with his support of the state of Israel because supporting antisemitism and supporting Israel are compatible. If you want your own country to not have any Jewish people without having to plan all the messy ‘genocide’ stuff, it’s useful to have a country to push them towards. (a country which conveniently makes a good military base for US imperialism). No surprise there.
If anyone thinks all this shit isn’t going to also harm Jewish Americans, they’re either fooling themselves or is deliberately ignoring antisemitism.
(Trigger warning: descriptions of murder methods, Holocaust)
Jup, people think of the Holocaust as this pre-made plan that was thought out from start to finish, but that’s not true. Hitler dreamed of a ‘Jewish-free’ Germany from day one, but how that could be achieved was never sure.
After his rise to power in 1933, the first concentration camps were filled mainly with political opponents, (of course quite a few political opponents were Jewish, since Jewish Germans had very good reasons not to like Hitler).
The Nazi regime started out banning Jewish people from jobs, banning interracial marriages, trying to isolate Jewish people socially, using street violence and pushing Jewish people to leave Germany. The Nazis didn’t really care where the Jewish people went as long as they left.
At this point in history,
extermination
camps for mass murder were most definitely not on the agenda. No one had invented them yet and the isolating of Jewish people was not a deliberate step towards mass murder. Pushing immigration effective enough.
By 1939, around 250,000 of Germany’s 437,000 Jews had emigrated to places like the US, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Palestine, and other
countries.
But a lot of countries closed their borders to Jewish refugees and there were very few places left to go to by 1938. Then Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and suddenly it had a loooooot more Jewish people and no place left to push them to. So it began rounding up Jewish people in ghettos, without really knowing what to do with them next. Mass deportation was considered. It was in this period that they started thinking about pushing all Jewish Poles to move to Madagascar or some other colony.
Pushing all Jewish Poles into the Soviet Union was also considered and when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in june 1941, they started mass murdering Jewish populations through mass shootings. When that proved too nauseating for the soldiers, gas vans were brought in to gas people to death on site.
When the war in the west and the war in the east both dragged on, it became clear that there was no way to send Jewish people out of the Third Reich through battlefields. Only then, at the start of 1942, was the idea of pushing Jewish people out of the Reich abandoned completely and only then was the decision made to kill all Jewish people within their territory and only then were extermination camps conceived.
TL;DR: For the majority of the history of the Third Reich, violently pushing Jewish people to immigrate was an important part of Nazi policy and possible locations for a ‘Jewish state’ were considered to achieve that goal. Genocide became a nazi policy slowly over the course of 9 years.
Ben is very upset about private corporations being able to decide what content they allow on their platforms. What’s wrong, Ben? I thought you liked free enterprise!
Thing is Hitler did some good for the german ppl, thus the immense support for him. The orange idiot however doesn’t do anything but playing Golf and approval ratings are decreasing. So, there’s that.
Literally shut the fuck up the only good thing Hitler ever did was put a bullet in his own brain
😂 Look, i hate him, too. But he created jobs. You think Hitler would have had the following he had being an angry men shouting at the clouds? He was a vile being and deserved more than the outcome he got.
Yeah, you’re right hitler created a lot of new jobs
I WONDER HOW HE DID THAT
THIS JUST IN
SLAVERY COUNTS AS JOB CREATION
uh yall do recall that he saved germany from the great depression and regardless of he fact that he was a mad man he did pull of a fairly decent socialist state before the whole “kill the jews” thing came up hell he didnt even want to do that
PUT YOUR FEET IN A WOODCHIPPER
not to be all like “read the thickest book i own six times over like me” but @msdancealot and @shotbythewolf have added some of the wrongest things ive ever read in my life soooooo
1-most of the make work programs of the first few years of nazi germany were created and budgeted for by the weimar government. after this like damn near every job created “by hitler” involved manufacturing weapons of war or extraction of resources to make weapons
2-its important to realize much of the world was leaving the great depression at the exact same time. a global economic recovery ‘saved’ germany, not hitler. theres alot of pretty solid evidence hitler destroyed germany and its economy actually, by running the domestic/consumer economy into the ground to make war
3-“fairly decent socialist state” the nazis were fascists. any sort of nazi social welfare programs didnt come from the same line of thinking as a socialist state. the nazi state was a ramshackle mess, rationing was commonplace, constant financial crisis
4-hell he didnt even want to kill the jews—-this is wrong. hitlers ideaology was so steeped in the idea of a “global jewish conspiracy” he wanted to kill every single jewish person on the planet. he wanted to do that. there wasnt a moment where he said “well shit guys looks like we have to kill the jews now” he wanted to do that for a very long time
exactly. there’s nothing there. not a statue. not a plaque. nothing.
[drives over hitler’s death site]
Bloody amazing.
And you know what’s right next to it?
That’s right, the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden, which translates to the Memorial for the murdered jews.
So if you wanna go have a look at the monument commemorating the victims of Hitler’s regime, you can park your car right on the spot he died and walk there.
Makes ya think, doesn’t it?
Germany: *has a literal parking lot over Hitler’s death site and has the memorial for the murdered Jews right next to it*
America:*has statues and museums dedicated to people who believed slavery was so amazing and good they decided to make their own country and murder anyone who disagreed*
Women, the streets near the car park are named after:
Gertrud Kolmar – German Jewish poet murdered in Auschwitz
Hannah Arendt – famous German Jewish philosopher and author, her works on totalitarianism, authority and the nature of power, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933
Cora Berliner – German Jewish economist and social scientist murdered in
Trostinets extermination camp
wupacing 