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The Gathering Storm and Its Historic Precedent, Part One \u2013 Nazi Germany<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Kelleigh Nelson
\nNews With Views<\/p>\n

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. \u2014Hannah Arendt, quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em><\/p>\n

We must always take sides.\u00a0 Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.\u00a0 \u2014Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.\u00a0 Elie Wiesel<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So, information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense against repetition. \u2014Simon Wiesenthal, Baltimore Jewish Times, 1989<\/em><\/p>\n

Communism\u00a0is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society. Fascism\u00a0is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles ruled by an all-powerful dictator. Communism originated in Europe, but when it failed to take root, they immigrated to the \u201cland of the free\u201d in 1848.<\/p>\n

Over 13 communists were high level officers in the Union Army.\u00a0 Karl Marx wrote a number of letters to President Lincoln, knowing that the war would ultimately give the centralized federal government absolute power over the states, and we\u2019ve seen this time and again with state laws being overturned by a federal court.<\/p>\n

After Lincoln\u2019s assassination, President Johnson also received letters from Karl Marx.\u00a0\u00a0The Reconstruction Act of 1867<\/a>\u00a0 placed Southern governments under military rule for ten long years, and technically for the two years prior to the Act.\u00a0 The South had to pledge to vote for Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes as president in order to end reconstruction. Thousands of government officials were removed from office in the South and replaced with military commanders. It was a very brutal time for the southern population.<\/p>\n

Punished With Poverty<\/a>\u00a0by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy explodes the myths taught in our government schools and tells the unvarnished story of the intentional policy of economic devastation and exploitation of the South which has affected all Southerners, both black and white, long after the close of the \u201cCivil War\u201d and \u201cReconstruction.\u201d In fact, the sad legacy of these punitive policies continues to this very day.<\/p>\n

The despotic seeds of tyranny were planted in America long ago and have now come to fruition.\u00a0 Klaus Schwab\u2019s World Economic Forum, Fauci\u2019s filthy NIH, Bill Gates\u2019 Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Soros Foundations and Big Pharma are\u00a0making huge profits<\/a>\u00a0via the propaganda spewed by their comrades in our Pravda media.<\/p>\n

Lobbyists for Big Pharma are filling the coffers of federal and state politicians to promote the lies of the FDA, NIH, CDC, medical journals and AMA on a virus 99.8% of the people recover from.\u00a0 Billions are being made, but hard data proves\u00a0Big Pharma knew Covid jabs would worsen and prolong the virus.<\/a><\/p>\n

There are powerful forces at work, far more powerful than we can possibly know, who are influencing anyone in a position of authority.\u00a0 History is repeating itself.\u00a0 What we saw in the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century is again rearing its demonic head in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

Hitler\u2019s burgeoning power seemingly happened in a short period of years, yet strategy and planning were years ahead of the regime change and \u201cinsurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parallel tactics used by the Third Reich (1920s through the mid-1940s) in today\u2019s America are startling.\u00a0 Hitler could have been stopped, but only a small contingent of German people truly understood his demonic intentions and the depravity and evil he had planned. Not until he genocidally murdered 13 million, and nearly half a million American soldiers perished, did this ungodly evil end.<\/p>\n

Unless you first recognize evil, it will continue to have power and cause destruction.\u00a0 Is America banal regarding the evil facing us; has she caved to the tentacles of treachery and turned a blind eye?\u00a0 At all costs, even unto death, we must stand and fight and it must be done now!<\/p>\n

The Rise of Fascism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hitler\u2019s rise to power took cunning and deliberate design; the few highlights outlined give an overview of the despotic groundwork and forethought.<\/p>\n

In 1919, Benito Mussolini formed the National Fascist Party in Italy and it was a huge influence on Hitler especially when, after WWI, Germany was forced to sign the\u00a0Treaty of Versailles<\/a>\u00a0which imposed strict sanctions on the country.\u00a0 Reparations destabilized Germany for years and the country was in economic turmoil.\u00a0 Later that year a socialist interim German government was replaced by the democratic Weimar Republic.<\/p>\n

Hitler had joined the German worker\u2019s party that same year as the military had sent him to spy on it.\u00a0 He was enamored and became increasingly important to the party because of his speeches and by 1921 he had become their chairman, and it was renamed the National\u00a0Socialist<\/strong>\u00a0German Workers\u2019 Party.<\/p>\n

\"\"SA Brownshirts<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In 1923, Munich held the first Nazi Party Congress and later that year, Hitler believed it was time for a coup.\u00a0 With the aid of the\u00a0SA brownshirts<\/a>, he staged the\u00a0Beer Hall Putsch<\/a>, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria.\u00a0 (Hitler had organized these thugs into a\u00a0paramilitary organization dubbed the\u00a0Sturmabteiling<\/em>\u00a0(SA) which literally translates to Storm Unit.\u00a0 This group, headed by Ernst Rohm, became a lure for those embittered unemployed Germans.)<\/p>\n

The future Fuhrer was arrested and tried, but spoke so eloquently of his ideas during the trial that they became known across Germany.\u00a0 He received a sentence of nine years and served five to ten months.\u00a0 While in prison, he wrote the beginning of \u201cMein Kampf<\/a>,\u201d and after his release, he proceeded to reassert control of the party with the desire to pursue his course to power.\u00a0 The naked and blind aggression had begun.<\/p>\n

Leader Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany in April of 1925, and in July, Hitler published his ideology in Mein Kampf.\u00a0 The future Fuhrer actually formed a personal bodyguard unit separate from the SA, known as the\u00a0SS or Schutzstaffel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Schutzstaffel<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The \u201cSchutzstaffel,\u201d German for \u201cProtective Echelon,\u201d initially served as Adolf Hitler\u2019s personal bodyguards, and later became one of the most powerful and feared organizations in all of Nazi Germany. Hermann Goering became head of the Gestapo (the secret state police) and\u00a0Heinrich Himmler<\/a>, a fervent anti-Semite like Hitler,headed the Waffen SS from 1929-1945 and expanded the group\u2019s role and size.\u00a0 Himmler was the organizer of the mass genocidal murder of European Jews in the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

The 1929 stock market crash in the US played into a depression around the world; the German economy was dependent on the US by the\u00a0Dawes Plan<\/a>, the required German reparations for WWI.<\/p>\n

In 1930, the Nazi Party became the second largest party in the\u00a0Reichstag<\/a>\u00a0(the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, a meeting place for the federal assembly).\u00a0 By 1932, Hitler\u2019s support was growing with industrialists and by summer, they were the largest party in Germany.\u00a0 In January of 1933, Hitler was given what he desired and\u00a0made Chancellor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Firearm Confiscation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon afterward, the right for the citizens of Germany to keep and bear arms for their own personal protection was removed.\u00a0 If all firearms were not turned in, the perpetrators were shot.\u00a0 The populace was quickly disarmed using Weimar laws leaving the Jews and Hitler\u2019s \u201cundesirable citizenry\u201d as sitting ducks ripe for destruction.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

Censorship<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 His first act was to introduce\u00a0censorship<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then with elections looming, the Reichstag is set on fire by an \u201calleged communist.\u201d\u00a0 Hitler declares the attack as evidence of a mass communist movement and passes a law ending civil liberties in Germany.\u00a0 Hitler\u2019s next act was to ban the communists, i.e., the Jewish citizens of Germany who were not of the \u201cAryan\u201d race.\u00a0 Next, he passed the \u201cEnabling Act<\/a>\u00a0of 1933,\u201d which allowed him to pass laws without the consent of Germany\u2019s parliament. Although the Weimar Constitution technically remained in effect throughout the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, it had been repealed by the Act and thus its various provisions and protections went unenforced for the duration of Nazi rule.<\/p>\n

In 1933, Heinrich Himmler opened the first Nazi Concentration Camp in Germany, Dachau. It was to be for political prisoners.\u00a0 That same year, Hermann Goring formed the Gestapo and in 1934, Himmler became head of the Gestapo.<\/p>\n

Night of the Long Knives<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In the summer of 1934, Hitler destroyed the SA in the \u201cNight of the Long Knives<\/a>,\u201d or the \u201cRohm Putsch\u201d and dozens were murdered for challenging his goals despite the fact they had helped him gain power and thought they were Hitler\u2019s friends.\u00a0 SA leader Ernst Rohm was executed in prison.\u00a0 After Hindenburg\u2019s death, Hitler merged the posts of chancellor and president and becomes the supreme leader, the tyrannical authoritarian dictator of Nazi Germany, Der Furher.<\/p>\n

Nuremberg Laws<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In September of 1935, Hitler announced the\u00a0Nuremberg Laws<\/a>.\u00a0 The first law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between \u201cJews\u201d (the name was now officially used in place of \u201cnon-Aryans\u201d) and \u201cGermans\u201d and also the employment of \u201cGerman\u201d females under forty-five in Jewish households. The second law, The Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of their German citizenship and introduced a new distinction between \u201cReich citizens\u201d and \u201cnationals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In 1935, Christian prayer was removed from German education.\u00a0 All children were urged to join the Hitler Youth, and after a while, it became mandatory.\u00a0 Religious instruction was not yet prohibited, but it was limited to those who had been licensed by the state.\u00a0 The dogmas of Nazism were substituted for the doctrine of the Bible.\u00a0 German education was through the eyes of the regime.<\/p>\n

\"\"Instead of prayers, children would stand with their arms outstretched and thrice repeat, \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d at the beginning of each day.<\/p>\n

Hitler immediately made changes to the school curriculum. Education in \u201cracial awareness\u201d began at school and children were constantly reminded of their racial duties to the \u201cnational community.\u201d Biology, along with political education, became compulsory. Children learned about \u201cworthy\u201d and \u201cunworthy\u201d races, about breeding and hereditary disease. \u201cThey measured their heads with tape measures, checked the color of their eyes and texture of their hair against charts of Aryan or Nordic types, and constructed their own family trees to establish their biological, not historical, ancestry\u2026. They also expanded on the racial inferiority of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Louis L. Snyder\u00a0<\/a>has pointed out: \u201cThere were to be two basic educational ideas in Hitler\u2019s ideal state. First, there must be burnt into the heart and brains of youth the sense of race. Second, German youth must be made ready for war, educated for victory or death. The ultimate purpose of education was to fashion citizens conscious of the glory of country and filled with fanatical devotion to the national cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The elimination of faith in God and the hatred of non-Aryan races was the prescribed education of the day.<\/p>\n

Kristallnacht<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nov 7 1938 \u2013 Jewish youth, Herschelk Grynszpan shoots German diplomat Ernst vom Rath who was actually against Hitler.\u00a0 He had thought Rath was one of Hitler\u2019s men.\u00a0 The assassination was used by Hitler to trigger\u00a0Kristallnacht<\/a>, literally \u201cCrystal night\u201d or the Night of Broken Glass, an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany.\u00a0 Synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses and homes destroyed, and many Jewish citizens beaten and murdered.\u00a0 Psalm 74:8 was read by Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and preached in one of his sermons.\u00a0 \u201cThey said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.\u201d\u00a0 Zechariah 2:8 was included which stated, \u201cFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth\u00a0the\u00a0apple\u00a0of\u00a0his\u00a0eye<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, only a few German Christians saw the Jews as their brothers and sisters; only a few saw them as Christ; only a few stood against the devils of hell that were unleashed by a satanic leader.\u00a0 Of those who stood with their Jewish brethren, many paid with their lives, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer.<\/p>\n

Concentration Camps<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration campson its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. Extermination camps such as Kulmhof, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were not part of the concentration camp system, and were operationally separate. These camps maintained only a minimal prisoner population.<\/p>\n

In 1940, the first Allied confrontation with Nazi forces occurred.\u00a0 Next up, Himmler established the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the camp where the notoriously evil Dr. Mengele performed grisly experiments on prisoners and especially\u00a0twin children<\/a>\u00a0with the support of interested corporations.<\/p>\n

Hatred of God<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Theodore Dostoyevsky was right when he said, \u201cIf God does not exist, everything is permissible.\u201d\u00a0 Hitler hated those who believed in the Lord God Almighty, considered them enemies of the state; many were imprisoned; many were murdered.\u00a0 Nazi Germany was carried along by the Nazi tidal wave, but there were those who saw the one true God and were able to resist.\u00a0 Catholics led the way, along with the \u201cConfessing Church\u201d of Lutherans.\u00a0 Hitler said that a big lie is more easily believed than a small one.\u00a0 If so, the biggest lie is that a man can be God.\u00a0 Too many church leaders had joined with the enemy, afraid to stand for truth.<\/p>\n

It was at this time that German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to pray the psalms of vengeance,\u00a0David\u2019s imprecatory psalms<\/a>.\u00a0 Bonhoeffer was arrested and executed at the Flossian concentration camp, during the last month of the war.\u00a0 The \u201cConfessing Church<\/a>\u201d was a breakaway from the German \u201cHitler\u201d church which Bonhoeffer helped form with\u00a0Martin Niemoller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conflicts with National Socialism emerged out of opposition to the German Christians, a pro-Nazi faction within the German Protestant Church that sought to apply Nazi racial dogma to church membership in such a way as to bar so-called non-Aryans from the ministry and from religious teaching positions.<\/p>\n

In April 1933, Bonhoeffer raised opposition to the persecution of Jews and argued that the Church had a responsibility to act against this kind of policy.<\/p>\n

Bonhoeffer\u2019s\u00a0best friend was a\u00a0Jewish-Christian pastor, and his twin sister was married to a baptized Jew.\u00a0 Dr. Bonhoeffer was not only involved in the conspiracy to kill Hitler, he was also smuggling Jews into Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Euthanasia<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the fall of 1939 the German government established, under the\u00a0Reich\u00a0Chancellery, the\u00a0Euthanasie Programme<\/a>.\u00a0 It was named T-4 after the headquarters of where the operation was decided at Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin.<\/p>\n

The concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn\u2019t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement\u2019s campaign for ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n

Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed \u201cunfit,\u201d preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in \u201ccolonies,\u201d and persecuted untold numbers.<\/p>\n

In 1935, the\u00a0Nuremberg Laws<\/a>\u00a0provided for the forced sterilization of the unfit. Not only did Hitler have in mind such \u201cinferior races\u201d as Jews and\u00a0Gypsies<\/a>, he also included unfit Aryans\u2014the mentally defective, severely handicapped, the incurably insane and the incurably sick. Anyone considered \u201cgenetically inferior<\/a>\u201d was put to death to purify Hitler\u2019s master race.<\/p>\n

Between December 1939 and August 1941, about 50,000 to 60,000 Germans\u2014children and adults\u2014were secretly killed by\u00a0lethal injections<\/u>\u00a0or in gassing installations designed to look like shower stalls. The\u00a0actual numbers<\/a>\u00a0were in the hundreds of thousands.\u00a0 It was a foretaste of\u00a0Auschwitz. The victims were taken from the medical institutions and put to death.<\/p>\n

Corporations, Money and Hitler<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 There is a very complex and dark history of German pharmaceutical companies during WWII.\u00a0 IBM, Bayer, I.G. Farben, Hoechst, Agfa and many others were involved with Auschwitz\u2019s Mengele in experiments on prisoners.\u00a0 I.G. Farben produced the pesticide, Zyklon B, which was used in the gas chambers. Farben was a large profiteer in the war, plundering Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France and all other countries conquered by the Nazis.\u00a0 There were 10 more companies involved, including the Associated Press,\u00a0who in 1933 fired their German Jewish press<\/a>\u00a0to appease Hitler.<\/p>\n

In January of 1942, Hitler laid out his evil vision of destroying God\u2019s people for his Aryan Reich.\u00a0 The\u00a0Wannsee Conference<\/a>\u00a0was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. [Link<\/a>] The war was on.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

WWII ended in May of 1945, and by then millions upon millions of European Jews, political dissidents and Hitler\u2019s \u201cundesirable\u201d human beings had been murdered.<\/p>\n

Genocidal evil is again rearing its ugly head. The same demonic tentacles from the past can be seen in America and throughout the world today.<\/p>\n

When will we object?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for Part Two.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2021 Kelleigh Nelson \u2013 All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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