09-20-2004, 01:54 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: godless northwest
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Originally posted by andi_germany
As a German citizen I would urge every American to go to a libary and get a book on how the Nazis got to power 70 years ago. You will see a lot of things that you can observe in the US today.
STOP this before it is to late.
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Every intelligent educated person sees the parallels between what Hitler said and did to create that atmosphere then, and that which is happening in America today; but unfortunately many here simply believe America can do no wrong (as strongly as Bush believes he was appointed by God).
How Hitler Became a Dictator
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A few weeks after he was appointed chancellor of Germany by President von Hindenberg in January 1933, Hitler was enjoying supper at the home of his friend Joseph Goebbels, when the telephone rang with an emergency message: ?The Reichstag is on fire!?
The day after the fire, Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to issue a decree entitled, ?For the Protection of the People and the State.? Justified as a ?defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state,? the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties:
?Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.?
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The Nazis also set up the Special Court, which handled cases of political crimes or ?insidious attacks against the government.? The Nazis also implemented a legal concept called Schutzhaft or ?protective custody? which enabled them to arrest and incarcerate people without charging them with a crime.
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For their part, the German people quickly accepted the new order of things. As Shirer put it,
?The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.... The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed.... On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country.?
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