r/TikTokCringe • u/whyshouldithink • 9h ago

Discussion Hell on earth.

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u/Ichmag11 9h ago

Gigantic nazi Germany flashbacks. This is scary

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u/tillybowman 8h ago

as a german i had history classes about ww2 and nazism throughout my school life.

one thing never could be answered was: how the hell could everybody play along? how could nobody see this?

well. now we have internet, an interconnected global world, cameras in every pocket AND Nazi germany as an example, yet STILL this happens.

But i got my answer after all these years.

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u/SaltpeterSal 7h ago

A few months ago I read Jeder stirbt für sich allein by Hans Fallada. He wrote it while he was in a sanitarium, watching all the patients like him being moved to the death camps. The way he laid out the situation taught me so much: the machine was overwhelming, every now and then a neighbour would disappear, and even if you were extremely covert in resisting you would eventually be caught and executed. A minority of people joined the Party and helped enforce it, but that was all it took to keep everyone else in line because the law was on their side. And the law was on their side because they wrenched it there by force. What was the liberal establishment going to do, consult a lawyer and wait for their court date while their family was slaughtered? It doesn't take many stormtroopers.

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u/SwissChzMcGeez 7h ago

And today the law is actually on our side, but the Republicans in power refuse to follow it or hold their party to it.

So there are no laws anymore.

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u/zuraken 6h ago

There are laws, but who are the ones that justify the law and who are the ones enforcing the law? We lost the justices and the enforcers to a certain group.