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The mainstream media’s Pravda-like flogging of protestors who invaded the Capitol on January 6 suggests it might be useful looking to the past for a historical parallel to help us understand what happened on that day, what is unfolding now, and what we might expect over the next few months.
We are now in a propaganda deluge, unprecedented in America’s history of transitions of Presidential power in its venom and vindictiveness. Encouraged by the elites in both parties, it is laying the foundation for massive repression — perhaps approaching a pogrom — for the supporters of Donald Trump. Worth noting is Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin’s comments on MSNBC:
[T]he only way to purge the GOP of Donald Trump supporters is to burn down the Republican Party with no survivors. What we should be doing is shunning these people. Shunning, shaming these people is a statement of moral indignation that these people are not fit for polite society.
So: speaking of “burning down the Republican Party,” the burning of the Reichstag in March 1933 and the ensuing “Enabling Act” Ermächtigungsgesetz that gave Chancellor Adolf Hitler plenary powers is a tempting choice of historical parallel.
The media are painting the January 6 Capitol protest as a riotous insurrection by followers of an illegitimate ruler seeking to nullify the recent election and re-install him. With the executive and legislative branches of the government under Democrat control and a compliant Judiciary, it is reasonable to expect a series of “enabling” executive orders and Congressional enactments that strip away basic constitutional rights and freedoms — speech, assembly, fair trial — from a large body of Americans who are now vicious, white bigots. Terrorist status is on the agenda. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nicely summed it up: “There are people in our country, led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy. That’s what this is about.” What she “is about” is the disenfranchisement and ultimately dispossession of white Americans. The captains of the tech industry, Zuck, Jack, and Sundar, will finish strangling the First Amendment for social media users. That, combined with the control of the mass media by the Democrats, will “enable” them to rule with virtually no voiced opposition. 2021 is on the precipice of one-party rule: thus, the historical parallel with Germany, March 1933.
The Reichstag burning parallel, however, is imperfect in multiple ways. Unlike the Democrats, the NSDAP 1933 did not have a majority in the German legislature (the Reichstag) and, unlike the Democrats, the National Socialists had no history of governing Germany. The Democrats have the undeserved advantage of (at least some) voters who trust that they will govern within the boundaries of the constitution. This makes the lure of a party dictatorship for them even more alluring and easier for them to initiate.
But the most obvious and perhaps the most disturbing difference between Germany 1933 and the US 2021 is that the group targeted for repression in Germany, the Jews, were a small minority. Whites in the US are still the majority.
How can this be happening? How can a majority population in a country with a long history of constitutionally governed stability be so docile and complacent as to surrender their rights, freedoms, and worst of all, the future of their children to people who hate them? Once in complete power, they will complete the despoiling of their cultural heritage, reduce them to peonage, and, at some point, attempt to dispose of them.
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The answer to these questions comes with a different historical parallel, one that comes closer to current events and likely better predicts what lies ahead.
Back to Germany, but fast-forward from 1933 to 1945. Under Allied occupation, the German people live under the denazification — Entnazifizierung — program for the next six years. Germany in 1945 was not just a militarily defeated nation. It was occupied and physically destroyed. Its entire population was at the mercy of its occupiers and judged to be infected with the Nazi ideology of racial hatred and the legacy of Prussian authoritarianism and militarism. Denazification conducted by the victorious occupiers was to be a forced transformation of the German national psyche: through re-education, the German people would come to embrace democracy and racial equality. They would become a nation of anti-Fascists, “Antifa” for short.
Looking at Germany today, one can affirm with absolute certainty that denazification was a smashing success. No real Nazis of any consequence could be found anywhere in that country. And for good reason. Try calling yourself a Nazi in today’s Germany and see what happens to you.
Whether denazification was a good thing for the German people, however, is a matter of debate. Which side you come down on depends on your level of enthusiasm for unrelieved guilt and unending self-flagellation. While much of the world, I would surmise, has forgiven Germany for its Nazi-era “sins”, the Germans themselves seem fanatically determined to despise themselves for being Germans. The German people are collectively Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Every day they wake up is the same day in 1946, over and over, and they do the same thing. The same thing is The Purge — of people, symbols, customs, language — the purge of all things that might suggest that Germans are still infected with the Nazi virus.
Though never formally proclaimed, American-style denazification has been underway for some time. The official name for it is “the elimination of systemic racism.” The 2020 presidential election and the aftermath leading up to the January 6 protest portends its next, shall we say, more vigorous stage. At the beginning of his quest for the Presidency, Donald Trump was christened as another “Adolf Hitler.” (Google the terms “Trump” and “Hitler” and plan on eternity to look at them all.) Seventy years after Hitler the First blew his brains out with his Luger in the Fuhrer Bunker, Hitler the Second burst on the American political stage with the support of the lumpenproletariat. Hillary Clinton, late in her failed campaign, described them as “irredeemables.” “Untermenschen” if she were talking to a German audience on Groundhog Day.
The country has groaned under the tyranny of Hitler the Second for the last four years — all those “undesirables” he rounded up and threw into concentration camps, the invasion of Mexico, the elimination of political rivals.
Well, he didn’t actually have time to get around to all of that. But you can bet he was going to!
Now out of power, expect a full-blown program of denazification to be unleashed. The deplorables and irredeemables must be punished. Think of the impeachment proceedings planned by the Congressional Democrats as a kind of Nuremberg Trial, a rite of condemnation for the deposed Chief Nazi. For his followers, expect persecutions of various sorts: loss of employment and/or promotion opportunities; social ostracism; purging from positions of influence and authority, struggle sessions with confessions of innate bigotry and racism with tearful apologies.
Here we arrive at the perfect parallelism: denazification, the German original and its American farce. Like the German people whose collective psyche had to be purged of its Nazi sins, white America’s collective sin of “racism” must be addressed and white America also must be purged. This has been in progress for a long time and explains the complacency of so many white Americans and their willingness to engage in the prescribed rituals of self-flagellation.
The Germans bowed to their guilt, and Germany as a rich, distinctive culture is quickly dissolving into a multicultural mass, indistinguishable from people elsewhere on the planet. The compliance of white America to denazification, similarly, is driven by a systematic plan of engineered guilt to remake America into a multicultural society that scorns its white-European heritage.
White, eight-year-old Johnny asks his white mommy: “Why are white people so hateful of black and brown people? That’s what the teacher told us today.” Mommy: “Well, I think Oprah can help explain it to us.”
Foreign military occupiers were the initiators of German denazification. American educators are the agents of the American version. American universities and schools are where the guilt “engineering” has been going on, right under our entertainment-distracted noses.
One can perhaps hope that the havoc wrought by COVID-19 might bring about the eventual collapse of America’s existing educational system. Therein would lie the beginning of resistance to American denazification and an escape from the fate of Germany.
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“Denazification” also relied on snitchers within the defeated population. Which brings up a new worry.
Post-Capitol demo, hundreds of people arrested. I foresee that many of these people will be offered a deal: go back to your homes and your organizations and be Fed informers in return for suspended charges. Otherwise the charges will be prosecuted. Many will take the deal.
Inevitable. So beware of anyone charged from the Capitol demo and then suddenly showing up again with no charges.
I’ve read a fair amount of commentary about the so-called 1/6 habbening. You’re the first person I can recall warning about returning snitches. You are right and I’ll keep it in mind.
Thank You
Very interesting, thank you! Along these lines, I was just visiting a German language instructional website and came across this excerpt from a history lesson about the founding of the East German communist regime in 1949. Pardon the length, but it all seems quite apposite the present moment.
“The founding of the DDR was decided over the heads of the people. Next to the SED there were other parties on the ballot. Nevertheless it was already regulated beforehand how much influence each party had, so that the election was superfluous. So the SED received anyway the most seats in the Volkskammer, the parliament of the DDR. Additionally, in the future, the Party falsified the results of elections and thus always received 100% of the votes. The constitution of the DDR guaranteed basic rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the right to strike. It determined that the economy should serve the entire people. These were all democratic principles. Nevertheless political repression was carried out right away on the basis of this constitution. Because it excluded the formation of any opposition to the SED. In addition, an independent judiciary was not provided for. Article 6 was of special significance. According to it, incitement against democratic institutions and organizations were crimes and subject to punishment. With this the SED was given the basis for legally prosecuting any political opposition. The mass media was controlled by the SED. The press, the radio and the television had the task of fulfilling the directions of the Party. They could report only what was prescribed from above.”
@2. Norbert:
Your “German language instructional site” sounds better than the one I used until recently, DeutscheWelle. Had to drop them for their insufferable left-center treatment of everything German. I’d appreciate a link to yours. I’m trying to reclaim my German heritage, which my father apparently had drummed out of him due to our 20th century wars, and was thereby rendered incapable of passing down to me.
The site is newsinslowgerman.com. It may not be better than DW in that respect, I’m not sure. It’s also pricey for the amount of content and I’ll probably cancel before the trial period ends. The most helpful online resource that I’m familiar with is the Pimsleur German series, available from Audible.
‘De-nazification’ was, essentially, de-Germanification. Millions murdered. Millions raped. The spectre of starvation everywhere. This is not the US. Not yet. But there is hunger in America and people will do anything for water and food if things get bad enough.
When I lived in Berlin as a lad one of my fave areas was Spandau in the then-British Sector. The old buildings were a trifle gloomy but in a cool, Germanic way. Rudolf Hess was still an unwilling guest at the prison, which was later torn down to make way for a ghastly American-style shopping mall. (If you’re happy to vandalize your own heritage who needs Allied bombers?)
And get this: All materials from the demolished Spandau Prison were ground to powder and dispersed in the North Sea. That is superstition bordering on insanity.
Growing up in Germany is akin to being mind-raped, every single waking moment of your life. On TV, radio, newspapers, movies and especially in education, there is an endless and strident redcuctio ad absurdum of everything German as Nazi. At school, every subject returned endlessly to 33-45, in admittedly sometimes very inventive ways. In high school art class we were shown the horror perpetrated against “entartete Kunst” (degenerate art) and were meant to laugh at Arno Breker and all representational art. At my boys’ school we rather agreed with the Führer’s distaste for Picasso, though. In English class, we read about Coventry, in French about la résistance, German literature was full of exile authors and post-war left-wingers. It even popped up in biology class where they managed to squeeze in the racial thinking of the NS as an abomination in the history of the sciences, let’s not even touch the non-stop drumbeat of hate and self-flagellation in history and the social science classes. It worked like a charm on the majority of students, for a minority however it became a reason to explore the truth on our own and move precisely to where they didn’t want us to go.
After the war, 45,000 titles were placed on an ‘index” by the American occupiers and systematically removed from libraries, schools, archives, homes, and destroyed. These were unsurprisingly not majority NS publications but titles about German culture and history to better sever our roots and thus more easily rewrite the past to ensure a deracinated future. Have any of you heard about the “Fragebogen”, a struggle-session which every German adult had to put in writing to account for their actions and thoughts between 33-45 across 119 questions (Ernst von Salomon turned it into a brilliant autobiographical book to stick it to the Americans).
One could go on about the endless permutations of de-nazification and the many parallels to what is happening in the US with de-platforming, systemic racism workshops, anti-white propaganda, but it’s too tiresome. I feel for our American cousins, am even married to one.
However, on occasion I do feel that supposedly very German emotion Schadenfreude, because you fellow Goys did this to us first. I know whose orders you were following but it was white men from the US and England who destroyed the white race’s best chance at securing its future, viciously demolishing us physically and then spiritually.
Fifteen years I spent in the US and in the late 90s (the height of the”Greatest Generation” national self-masturbation) every American I met had to tell the Kraut about their heroic grandfather who stormed Omaha beach, destroyed ten Tiger tanks and single-handedly took the Eagle’s Nest. Back then I made “Faust in der Tasche” and thought quietly to myself: “Do you really think they won’t come for you? We were the first and only real opposition and they had to take us out. But they wont’s stop until we are all gone.”
That is what they are doing now and they are using the same methods the American occupation government deployed against us, perfected, and saw achieve total success after 1945. Well, maybe grim satisfaction is not the way to describe it, not even Schadenfreude. Just the sadness and fatigue of having seen it play out before, watching this horror now descending on those who were the instruments of our destruction. It’s grim.
Good luck to us all.
“it was white men from the US and England who destroyed the white race’s best chance at securing its future, viciously demolishing us physically and then spiritually.”
Exactly right. Tell the story. What we are seeing today in America and the West generally is the inevitable and direct result of German defeat. The West was defeated at Stalingrad.
How America went from liberation from the diseased British Empire to becoming its savior, is beyond understanding.
And soon, but too late, our vaunted “greatest generation” will posthumously be getting the government they truly deserve. Good. Let their American and British grandchildren now reap the whirlwind of racial, social, political and economic misery their ancestors sowed for them.
Such misery is the only remaining path to Western recovery.
There will be no recovery, pipe dreams I am afraid and everything coming to us we have earned.
What we are seeing today in America and the West generally is the inevitable and direct result of German defeat.
And the German defeat was a direct result of invading mostly non-German populated regions to the east in the first place, then treating fellow white Europeans like colonial subjects from Africa.
Even if after occupying lands full of non-Germans the Nazis had been open-minded enough to incentivize collaboration and future friendship with the Reich through a genuinely inclusive pro-European policy they might have gained enough support to have allies later against the USSR, but they preferred national chauvinism and so they blew it.
Blaming other white people – English, Slavs, Americans – for the state we are in while ignoring the nationalist chauvinism displayed by Germany that other white nations reacted to, indicates that White Nationalists haven’t learned very much since WW2.
This sounds like the Alt-Right/”Neue Rechte”-narrative. Fortunately it’s not true and just a part of US-antifascist-j.ish propaganda.
Thank you for this brutally honest post. I’m deeply sorry for what was done in the past.
Just know this: nobody in 1933-1945, save for the most insightful, could have envisioned what has transpired since. Our grandfathers truly believed that they were fighting for freedom. In many ways they were lied to, but they couldn’t have known that ultimately “freedom” would be gender reassignment surgeries and unlimited pornography, along with women becoming heads of state in most every major western nation. Many of them didn’t even envision desegregation and their future daughters marrying black men. 1940s America was a more-or-less prosperous time, and most white Americans lived in rural settings with tight-knit families. The could never have imagined that the freedoms that they wanted to share and spread would ultimately be turned against their children and grandchildren.
It’s all very chilling.
Appreciate your note. There were of course millions of Americans in 1941 who knew the truth. Charles Lindbergh for one was „de-platformed“ for his courageous stance. They knew who was pulling the strings and it took Pearl Harbor to seal the deal. I wonder what they were thinking quietly to themselves as it all unfolded, not that different from us today with no outlet or representation. So let’s not stay quiet, call out the enemy and I will see you on the barricades.
“As late as the autumn of 1945, a Gallup poll taken among the American troops in Germany showed that 51 per cent ‘thought Hitler did much good before 1939’. This was after five years of anti-Hitler propaganda.” – Footnote to a George Orwell article.
Makes you wonder what the troops who faced the business end of a Tiger tank would make of our diversity, black-is-beautiful hogwash.
Amusing addendum : Orwell noted that he thought it highly unlikely that anywhere near 51 per cent of Americans would have had such a favorable opinion of Britain.
“One could go on about the endless permutations of de-nazification and the many parallels to what is happening in the US with de-platforming, systemic racism workshops, anti-white propaganda, but it’s too tiresome. I feel for our American cousins, am even married to one.”
Yes, but with respect, we need solutions not a defeatist attitude. And blaming fellow Whites for past mistakes when education and information was limited is going to get us nowhere. Blame and guilt is a jewish concept. We are better than that.
I know that the audience here differs on their perceptions of Hitler’s Germany, ranging from outright vitriol to messianic admiration.
Whether or not he placed German nationalism or concern for the wider European racial community first in his weltanshauung is something we can all debate without end. Again, the fact that a Total War was being waged against Hitler and the Germans were trying to fight off extinction, which ultimately has occurred, makes it difficult to isolate policies in Eastern Europe that otherwise likely would not have taken place. The same can be said of the “atrocities” at the labor camps. We do not know what a National Socialist Europe would have achieved, or if it could have extended to all white nations, thereby creating a true NS family of European nations.
However, my own opinion is that National Socialist Germany was the best, if not perfect, shot whites will ever have at securing a future for our people and a racial homeland. One need only compare it to our present situation, Commie Harris and Senile Joe, to recognize this truth. Whatever faults the Germans had, they would never have racially defiled and worked to replace native Britons in the Britain or Whites in the United States – that’s inconceivable, and in fact it is likely Hitler would have done everything in his power to achieve exactly the opposite in fellow white nations.
Therefore, as a millennial and veteran, I admit I am quite black-pilled, because I know that white men in uniform from both America and Britain, infected with Jewish mammonism and capitalism, destroyed the vanguard of our civilization and the only man capable of elevating our race into something more wholesome and noble.
That any of you lived through it and kept your life, sanity and clear vision is enough of a ray of light at this point. I’ve been aware of the whole thing for over a decade now, and aware something was rotten in the state since I obtained self-consciousness. I completely understand the schadenfreude as I know what a lot of idiot who held me back, lied to me, and would snitch on me if I hadn’t stopped giving them the time of day ages ago, have coming for them. At least, I hope it wakes up in them the determination to not go gently, but to make their termination costly and difficult, as I have. Still here and still seeing about as clearly as one can in what one of our colleagues called “a labyrinthine dumpster fire.” While you are alive it is still possible to appreciate your life. Posterity is screwed, but in the grand scheme of things, it always was. For better or worse, we have the amazing gift of getting to witness it all with our eyes as open as we can take it. Bless every one of you who have been my rebellious companions on this journey. Even the ones who got took for dupes. We all have. I hope they enjoy the pyrrhic victory. The last whitepill is that their ‘victory’ will be their own undoing, and the universe will soon lose any trace of the whole sorry footnote to space-time.
“De-nazification” has been well underway in corporate America ever since social media companies decided to become platforms for doxxing activities.
In my workplace there is no backbone in any tier of management, and the HR department has been tasked with “de-nazification” activities through diversity and sensitivity training.
The same can be said about most any corporate entity, even those with a unionized work force. Labor unions, despite the overwhelming push-back by their members, are 100% complacent in bolstering and enduring leftist politics. They will not stand behind employees who are singled out for “denazification.”
The scariest thing is that I really do believe that a lot of these people voted for Trump themselves. Many hold views that would be considered bigoted nazi views by the “truth and reconciliation” squads that are seizing power. The problem is, their own personal views could ultimately land them in hot water too if they are “found out”, therefore they tend to, out of fear, become active participants in the persecution of others in order to avert scrutiny.
Leftists politics are strengthened through sheer terror. The future is going to be brutally oppressive.
PS. We are already seeing defections even within dissident circles. People such as Richard Spencer are denouncing the very movement that they fueled and pumped oxygen into. It won’t be long before these people become tools of the left to facilitate the coming purge.
Dissident circles… you mean that collection of mendicants, motleys and alphabet men grifting shekels on the internet…
may as well give yourself in….
I heard a newsbreak story on the radio today where the anchor mentioned that a lot of the capitol protestors were being turned in by friends and family. I could practically hear the anchor salivate with the idea. I’ve never heard anything like it on the news. The media wants soviet-style repression so bad they can taste it.
Re “turned in by ‘friends’ and families” : I’d bet there’s a lot of settling of old scores going on, as there was in France after the ‘Liberation’.
De-nazification, de-germanization, islamization.
1945: Victors are democrats, communists and jews
1991: soviet ( post-jewish) communism fell
2020:western democracy fell
Who is left?
There is a joke that because of Covid restrictions, all american coups and color revolutions had to stay home, and so they did!
It invalidates the old joke, that there are no color revolutions in USA because there is no american embassy in USA.
“the group targeted for repression in Germany, the Jews, were a small minority.”
And they were never Germans, but immigrants. They did not belong there, and Germany helped them go to Palestine.
The whites in the US – they belong there. They created the very country.
It flabbergasts me how people all the time draws parallels to National Socialist Germany and completely disregard the fact that as opposed to Hitler (and to a degree also Trump) the leaders in other settings mainly despise their people.
The main requirement I have to any political party I may vote for, is that they like mye demographic group – the white heterosexual male – and want the best in him to develop and expand. Whether on the left or the right is a small matter in comparison.
The parallels to postwar Germany are too stRiki-Eiking. There are already calls for commissions and committees and trials for anyone even remotely connected to Trump or anything paler than yellow. Family blowing the whistle is coming soon. It’s amazing to me because they call those that were at the capital white supremacists, yet, the vast majority of those in power are white. Can this really lead to a shooting civil war? I think the over the top military presence in DC was an extremely clear message that they control the heavy weaponry now and we would proceed at our own peril. Funny thing is the blacks won’t give the whites in power any mercy if the time comes. Sad they can’t see that truth.
Don’t forget the South African model of “Truth and Reconciliation” councils. Billionaire Richard Branson says they worked great there. Perhaps he never had a burning tire wrapped around his neck as his daughter is raped by those “noble” savages
“We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going. The guarantee of victory is predominantly based on weakening the enemy forces, on destroying them in their own country, within the resistance. And we are the Trojan horses in the enemy’s fortress. Thousands of Jews living in Europe constitute the principal factor in the destruction of our enemy. There, our front is a fact and the most valuable aid for victory.” — Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Jewish Congress, Head of the Jewish Agency and later President of Israel, in a Speech on December 3, 1942, in New York
A great evil was perpetrated on the world in WW2 by Communists, Capitalists and Zionist middlemen balancing and exploiting the two, and the bills are finally coming due.
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