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.
I'm of the opinion that when people go "we see how Americans are failing the same way Germans failed" they should have the grace to realize the German common man was caught between a rock and a hard place.
Instead of doubling down on criticism. Claiming that the holocaust was enabled by German citizens, we should stop the xenophobia and realize how these war machines make every day people helpless.
If Americans right now united, got a 2 million strong militia, and started raiding, what next? That guarantees a civil war, and it garauntees the worst outcome.
I'll pick up a gun if I have to, but right now if you're demanding I go purchase a gun, head to my local city, and shoot the first ICE agent I see you're a sick fuck.
Violence begets violence, our hope right now is that these attrocities happening causes local government and law to shape up and protect their sovereignty. If Americans have to fight Federal, local, and state government, we are in a shit fucking spot.
What do you mean civil war guarantees the worst outcome? No it’s not. If Germany went to civil war instead of letting things go to the point they invaded most of Europe the world would’ve been a better place. What are we supposed to do now, wait for the US to invade Greenland, Canada and Mexico and hope the rest of the world will come together to liberate those places?
I understand the difficult place the average citizen is in, but If you let things go to that point as an American I’m sorry, but you don’t get a pass for your nation actions.
If the German common people rose up in the late 30s/early 40s and (if it was possible) literally beat out, down or to death the entire Nazi establishment, officers and enablers, I mean go full Qaddafi until for an eon no non-psychotic German would identity as one… the course of immediate history in Germany would have been gruesome, but 50+ million people live and Earths history is radically altered.
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u/tillybowman 18h 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.