#Adolf Hitler

[mysharona1987]

But Art Spiegelman literally write a book about how comparing people to mice is a horrifying bad idea. He opened Maus with this:

The IDF did not get the memo.

#art spiegelman #Maus #palestine #books #democrats #republicans #politics #holocaust #adolf hitler #woc #news #poc #Idf #Muskims #joe biden #biden #gop

[gwydionmisha]

In a speech in which he paraphrases Hitler some more.

#Donald Trump #Anti-immigrant Tirade #Adolf Hitler #Election 2024 #Fascism #News

[ilmiyyat1453]

Dünyadaki Filistin gösterilerinden bir kare:

"Bir zamanlar nefret ettiğin şeye dönüşmen ironik"

#dünya #Filistin #gösteri #gaza #hamas #palestine #israel #israil #nefret #adolf hitler #yahudi #yahudilik #ghetto #katliam #netenyahu

[hanna-lulu]

i’ve been comparing the usa now to germany circa the late 1930s and it is not a favorable comparison.

let’s see what we’ve got:

increasing antisemitism

increasing transphobia

increasing ableism

continued oppression of indigenous peoples

laws being introduced to ban gender-affirming care and remove children from their homes if they are allowed to live as they wish

books being banned for having honest and age-appropriate portrayals of race/racism and queerness/homophobia

pushing maid (medical assistance in dying) on people with disabilities and even people who are just poor (this is more in canada but i’m including it here anyway)

a right wing that is seen as ridiculous and absurd, yet is somehow still managing to hold onto power while liberals/leftists laugh it off as if they’ll run out of steam

it’s important to note that in the 1930s, when hitler came to power, the international community thought he was a joke. his overblown rhetoric was silly, his history was laughable, and nobody took him seriously. they thought it would all blow over. also, he wasn’t saying anything that a lot of people didn’t secretly agree with. antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and racism were widespread throughout europe and the usa, and a lot of people had less of a problem with what he was saying and more with how he was saying it. (think kanye west’s antisemitic comments, which joe rogan did attempt to stop him from making so blatantly, but didn’t actually disagree with.)

the first medical and educational facility for gender affirming care was in berlin. did you know that? the institut für sexualwissenschaft (known variably in english as institute of sex research, institute of/for sexology, or institute for the science of sexuality) was founded in 1919 and headed by magnus hirschfeld, who was both gay and jewish. he helped build a library in the institute that was dedicated to the topics of gender, eroticism, and same-sex love. the research undertaken there regarded sexual health of all people, gay, transgender, and intersex, as well as counseling and treatment for alcoholism, gynecological issues, venereal diseases, contraceptives, and more. sexual reassignment surgeries were performed successfully there. the goal was to help those who were suffering because they could not live as who they truly were and to educate the common people, because people fear what they see as different, what they cannot understand.

you won’t find the books in that library today. they were burned as part of the nazis’ campaign of terror and censorship. in 1933, 6 years before world war 2 officially broke out, the institut was broken into and looted by the deutsche studentenschaft (aka the german student union). young adults who had spent their formative years surrounded by hateful rhetoric were accompanied by a brass band as they destroyed this oasis of understanding and knowledge. hirschfeld himself had fled germany years before, as he had been targeted numerous times by nationalists/far right “activists”.

berlin once had a thriving queer community. germany was a home to many jews, my own great-grandparents included. my great-grandmother’s younger brother had a learning disability. their home turned on them out of fear and ignorance, the people told by their leaders that other human beings were not really human, but degenerate filth. my great-grandparents escaped with their lives. many– my great-grandma’s brother included– did not.

the concentration camps that imprisoned and killed so many jewish, queer, and/or disabled people (as well as romani and political prisoners, and japanese-americans IN THE USA) are not consigned to the past. our prison system disenfranchises those who are placed in it and uses them for unpaid labor. refugees are caged for daring to hope that our country– the so-called “land of the free”– would take them in when their homes turned on them. indigenous people are ridiculed and attacked for wanting to help our planet heal and for asking to conserve the land that was stolen from their ancestors. almost a hundred years since the holocaust, and we still haven’t learned.

don’t look away from this. it’s not going to blow over. those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and we are already experiencing a resurgence of fascist beliefs and rhetoric.

write to your representatives. VOTE. protest if and when you can. show them that we are HERE and we refuse to be written out of the history books, banned or burned away. we are human beings. we live and love and deserve to do so with dignity.

and if appealing to your humanity isn’t enough, remember this poetic version of a quote by german lutheran pastor martin niemöller, an early nazi collaborator and antisemite who later changed his views and opposed hitler’s oppressive regime:

“first they came for the socialists, and i did not speak out–

because i was not a socialist.

then they came for the trade unionists, and i did not speak out–

because i was not a trade unionist.

then they came for the jews, and i did not speak out–

because i was not a jew.

then they came for me– and there was no one left to speak for me.”

there is always another enemy in fascism. anyone who is different will eventually be a target. white supremacy is poison, and fitting the mold of a “perfect citizen” cannot keep you safe. queer infighting and pushing down people who you find “too weird” will not stop the people who hate all of us. to the far right, we are all wrong to our very cores. solidarity in the face of oppression is the only way to survive, live, and thrive.

#i’ve been meaning to write this post for a while #i’m so sick and tired of this bullshit #you’d think we would have learned by now #long post #history #world war 2 #world war ii #the holocaust #antisemitism #homophobia #transphobia #ableism #racism #der institut für sexualwissenschaft #magnus hirschfeld #adolf hitler #book banning #book burning #fascism #concentration camps #maid (medical assistance in dying) #martin niemöller #first they came #solidarity forever

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

#harvard #harvard university #parody #adolf hitler

[thepopculturearchivist]

TIME, April 3, 1933

#hitler #adolf hitler #1933 #1930s

[kp777]

by Tim Karr

Common Dreams

Nov. 16, 2023

Democracy suffers when a commercial media system showcases fascist demagogues for profit.

There is no bottom for MAGA’s top man. At a speech delivered on Veterans Day, Donald Trump used rhetoric nearly identical to that used by Adolf Hitler 80 years earlier.

Rather than honoring veterans as one might expect of a political speech on this day, Trump used the occasion to label his adversaries “vermin” — promising that, if elected, he would use his power to “root out” all his political enemies.

The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake found the parallels: Hitler frequently used vermin references to justify the murder of Jews and others across Europe, while “Trump has used it more broadly to suggest that his opponents are subhuman” and deserve punishment.

Without calling themselves to account for the damage they've done, media executives will never quit their Trump habit

Parroting Hitler should not be considered normal behavior in any election cycle. But the media have grown used to covering Trump’s extremism as if it’s standard political fare. This time, though, some journalists rightly saw his Veterans Day speech as very dangerous.

“It’s important to emphasize that Trump’s rhetorical excesses are not new. To know anything about the Republican is to know that he, on a nearly daily basis, finds new and needlessly provocative ways to shock, offend, insult, and degrade,” wrote Steve Benen for MSNBC.

What is new, however, is the growing number of reporters and commentators being more explicit in their use of the term “fascist” to describe Trump’s beliefs — and “dictatorship” to describe what his return to power would represent for the future of U.S. democracy.

The media aren’t sounding these sorts of alarms enough, according to Margaret Sullivan, who wrote about the mounting evidence that Trump is indeed a fascist. “The press generally is not doing an adequate job of communicating those realities,” she said. “Instead, journalists have emphasized Joe Biden’s age and Trump’s ‘freewheeling’ style. They blame the public’s attitudes on ‘polarization,’ as if they themselves have no role.”

Sullivan urges more members of the press to report on the dark prospect of a second Trump presidency. They should “ask voters directly whether they are comfortable with [Trump’s] plans, and report on that. Display these stories prominently, and then do it again soon,” she wrote.

The ‘F’ word

Sullivan is right, of course. The media need to report more on the rise of fascism in America, and they also need to reflect on their role in enabling this. For decades the former president has capitalized on the media’s obsessive attention to paint an alternative vision of himself — one in which he features not as a twice-impeached, criminally indicted sexual abuser who sought to overthrow a democratic election that he lost, but as a decisive and winning strongman, the only person with the power and charisma to make America great again.

Media execs have played along with Trump’s charade, aware that his tele-presence is a boon for ratings and revenues. In 2016, then-CBS CEO Les Moonves said that devoting so much airtime to then-candidate Trump “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” At the time, Moonves was praising Trump for the bumper crop of political-ad dollars brought in during the contentious 2016 election, but he was not alone.

Former media executive Jeff Zucker has arguably done more than any single person to burnish the 21st-century caricature of Donald Trump. While an executive at NBC, he greenlit The Apprentice, which remade Trump from a bankruptcy-spawning loser into a boardroom genius with impeccable business savvy.

When Trump entered the political fray in 2015, he did so with an Apprentice tailwind. Zucker, who by then had transitioned to the top job at CNN, trained the network’s cameras on his celebrity candidate while denying equal time to Trump’s Republican opponents. Ratings were also Zucker’s rationale for keeping Trump center stage in 2016.

The media chose Trump in 2016 well before most Republican voters had a chance to vote for any of the other GOP candidates in the race.

And it didn’t end there. In 2020, Mathias Döpfner, head of German media giant Axel Springer, sent a message asking the company’s executives if they wanted to “get together for an hour on the morning on Nov. 3 and pray that Donald Trump will again become President of the United States of America?” Döpfner justified this question by praising the Trump administration for supporting issues, like corporate tax breaks and reining in big tech, that benefitted Axel Springer.

The profit incentive

If you’re noticing a pattern, it's this: Democracy suffers when a commercial media system showcases fascist demagogues for profit.

That seems obvious enough, but it’s worth repeating: News media companies rely on ratings and related advertising revenues to survive. In other words, the news business is about putting on a show that will draw the largest numbers of viewers. And Trump — like Hitler and Mussolini before him — is a camera-ready showman.

More important matters like correcting Trump’s many falsehoods or reporting on the troubling consequences of a second Trump presidency are secondary for those who just want to draw more attention to their primetime offerings.

Former executives, like Moonves and Zucker (who for a variety of unsavory reasons have since left their companies), and existing ones, like Döpfner, were saying that as long as Trump’s autocratic extremism makes them richer, there’s no need to worry about the consequences. Never mind that, if elected, he’d likely use his power to undermine media freedom and silence dissenting voices.

The commercial U.S. media system needs to undergo deep reckoning for accommodating the rise of Trumpism. This atonement should be reflected in a shift in the ways large outlets report on Trump, but also by recognizing the commercial incentives that drive media to lead with the Trump Show, damn the far-right repercussions.

Without calling themselves to account for the damage they've done, media executives will never quit their Trump habit — not in 2024, nor at any point after.

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#corporate media #news media #fascism #journalism #2024 presidential election #adolf hitler #donald trump #corporate greed

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heinkel He 111P-2 (CA+NA) W.Nr. 2471 of the Fliegerstaffel des Führers (F.d.F.) during a visit of Adolf Hitler to the southern sector of the Eastern Front, March-May 1942. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

#germany #ww2 #luftwaffe #ww2 aircraft #heinkel #he 111 #eastern front #Fliegerstaffel des Führers #1942 #adolf hitler

[netscapenavigator-official]

The Shinigami Eyes extension is actually funny because, while the stuff that's marked often makes sense, sometimes you'll be browsing a random Wikipedia article and see someone highlighted in red, and you'll be like "Oh no, who could it b-"

Like, thank you Shinigami Eyes. How else in this great-big world was I ever supposed to know that Adolf Hitler was not a trans ally?!?!?! Mind-blowing revelations in the studio, today.

#/s #sarcasm #shitpost #shit post #shinigami eyes #browser extension #wikipedia #adolf hitler #hitler #indiana jones #raiders of the lost ark #chaos #trans #transgender #trans ally #lgbt #lgbtq

[fraumagdagoebbels]

Joseph Goebbels and his wife together with Adolf Hitler at a state event.

#Magda Goebbels #Joseph Goebbels #Adolf Hitler #Third Reich

[der-unverantwortliche]

Adolf Hitler, 1913

#adolf hitler #not bad! though a bit goatse-esque

[ciaheyhimm]

Honest Reactions to "I want a baby"

Do I feel bad after creating this? No, but I'm planning to do more of them because I LOVE making these.

Please take this as a joke.

#reichblr #wwii #wwii germany #meme #wwii meme #ww2 #ww2 memes #adolf hitler #heinrich himmler #joseph goebbels #martin bormann #reinhard heydrich #joachim peiper #joachim von ribbentrop #albert speer #rudolf hess #hermann goering #michael wittmann

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

April 10th, 1938: The Anschluss. In a vote of all people, 99.7% of Austrians approve of the political unification of Austria and Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

The ballots for this vote were not kept secret, and threats and coercion were made to ensure the vote supported the wishes of the ruling party.

#history #world history #german history #nazi #adolf hitler #hitler #antisemitism #anschluss #austria #democracy

[phoukanamedpookie]

Happy birthday, forever bae Gal Gadot, who deliberately chose to be born on the 40th anniversary of Hitler's death.

May she live to 120 while Hitler's bones turn to dust. 😊😊😊

I will celebrate by watching movies starring this beautiful, successful, and popular Jewish lady living her best motherfucking life, just as Hitler would not have wanted!

And I shall eat cake. 🎂 🥳 🎉

Mazel tov!

#gal gadot #adolf hitler #jumblr #fuck you hitler #glad you dead #happy birthday boo

[eapb]

#eva braun #2ww #history #adolf hitler

[idtha]

Sie schauen sich so an... Tolles Paar, Ava.

#3rd reich #reichblr #heinrich himmler #ww2 #Adolf Hitler