Gestapo Quotes
The entire inner alienation from the ideas of National Socialism that characterized the men of the reactionary conspiratorial circle expresses itself above all on the Jewish Question …. They stubbornly take the liberal position of granting to the Jews in principle the same status as to every German..
This is a very enlightening quotation. It shows how far to the right the Nazi Germany had gone. Here, the true believers, describe the notion that Jewish German citizens who had the same status as other German citizens before the Nazis took over as a “liberal position” at a time and culture where “liberal” was a great term of derision as it would become amongst conservatives in America at the beginning of the late 20th century. But in Germany it had become “liberal” to object to a minority of citizens being murdered by the state.
Gestapo, Nazi Germany Security Service, Report on their investigation of a ring that unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, 1944
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He was an intellectual precursor of the Nazi movement. He was also one of Hitler's favorite authors. See {77545}.
Before there were supermarkets, different produce was sold in different stores. Grocery stores run by grocers, sold fruits, vegetables, cereals, and canned goods but not meat of fish which had their own special stores.
The non-violent resistance tactics of the White Rose were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
German Jewish scientists were at first unwelcome and discriminated against as the Nazi’s gained power, Then they were banned from participating in most university and other scientific projects and institutes, Many began to leave Germany, and then the remaining ones were sent to concentration camps and mostly murdered. But the ones who had escaped came mostly to England and America. Before this started, Germany had the best physics research in the world. By the end of the war, the “German Jewish Scientists (like Albert Einstein) not only were helping to make America the world’s best physics research center, but were instrumental in developing the atomic bomb which Nazi Germany could not develop because there were not enough great scientists left.
He was distraught at the persecution his family was forced to endure in Germany.
All German Jewish Citizens were immediately disenfranchised including decorated military veterans.
Later, in the 1930s Ploetz became a Nazi and changed his views about the Jews and supported Nazi Anti-Semitism and crimes against the Jews.
At the time, most of the world did not believe that the Germans were literally serious in their anti-Semitic rhetoric. It was assumed that this kind of talk was just populist rhetoric to get votes and maintain power. The main lesson of Nazi Germany is when leaders of a country, threaten the existence of another country or a people, they must be taken seriously, and not just as politicians being populists and pandering to an ignorant, biased public.
The reconstruction to which he referred was the rebuilding of Germany after the First World War. Anti-Semitism distracted most of the people from focusing on the terrible policies that guided Germany into WWI and the incompetent government that was operational.
This type of statement was made by hundreds of American politicians as the Saudis were blatant. The only thing that makes this a notable quotation is the fact that later Coleman became the highly paid lobbyist in America for Saudi Arabia. This is a level of moral hypocrisy that is rare, even among politicians.
The Nazis and most of the Arabs were allies in WWII. The Jews of Palestine—although they were opposed to many of the British policies regarding Palestine—were active in the Allied cause contributing units to the British Army. Although the Germans were brutal to civilians, murdering millions, they refrained from public pronouncements or exhortations to kill civilians in most cases. The Arabs did not. The Mufti was actually given the rank of General in the Nazi SS and had his own SS unit. In this despicable exhortation he actually uses a concept and wording from the Koran. See {584355}. This quotation is important in that it refutes a common claim by some Palestinians that it was only the Germans who were responsible for the Holocaust and the post war Jewish Refugee problem and that the Palestinians had to bear the price rather than place Israel in Europe. This quotation and the other by the Grand Mufti prove that Palestinians were not only complicit in persecution of Jews but took a leadership and advocacy role.
The Russian troops had surrounded Berlin and were closing on the bunker. Hitler announced that he intended to commit suicide. 8 days later he did.
This was one of the most hateful of his public speeches. He was one of the American “heroes” in Nazi Germany, receiving assistance from the Nazi government. Between his anti-Semitism and support for Hitler, Fascism and radical socialism, the Vatican ordered him off the air and shut down his political demagoguery.
According to Bauer and his anti-Semitic followers, the problem with the Jews was Judaism
The Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), abbreviated Gestapo (German: [ɡəˈʃtaːpo]; /ɡəˈstɑːpoʊ/), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
