History today! 1933 Germany and the world was f*cked - (Federal Reichstag election)
Today in History back in 1933 was a very important political date that "started" a sad area in the 20th century driven by my nation. March 5 1933 was the date of the federal election in Germany with the Nazi Party (NSDAP) winning majority in parliament (43.9 percent-17.2 million votes). Actually the end started way before – Adolf Hitler was already chancellor before this election and the terror of his supporters was present across Germany.
I am not getting into detail on the entire Nazi topic, how and why it started – a lot can be found everywhere across the net. We lost some family members too during that phase of terror and war – the majority of people did not expect something like this could happen even in the 1930ies.
I hope such things will never happen again following nationalist propaganda. The current political trends worldwide are making me worried a bit!
Back to history on March 5, 1933 – date of the federal election in Germany. Nazi storm troopers had unleashed a campaign of violence against all other parties more or less especially the communist party KPD but also attacked other political parties from the left and centre. Already months before that election the SA brownshirts and SS troops implemented terror and propaganda across Germany.
The votes for NSDAP has a massive increase but 43.9 was still not enough.
They needed the votes of a coalition partner to realize a working majority in the Reichstag. The collation partner was the German National People's Party (DNVP) Straight after the election, Hitler launched an Enabling Act which gave him all powers needed to become dictator. It took only a few months until Hitler and his NSDAP official banned all other parties.
Germany and the world was fucked! We all know what followed.
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia, Personal family memories, Deutsche Welle, YouTube.
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And we still have Nazis today trying to divide us from both sides, in order to conquer us:
https://steemit.com/politics/@profitgenerator/nazis-controlling-both-sides
https://steemit.com/news/@profitgenerator/breaking-news-the-nazis-are-back-in-europe
I'm very concerned too my friend... There is much too little understanding about what fascism as well as nazism is. Most people know it's bad, but they have no intellectual arguments against it.
We have to work to make sure history doesn't repeat itself.
Yeah, we all need to educate the awareness what can happen, we are in a dangerous time
I, too, am concerned... when I examine that, I mostly feel concerned because most people in the world seem disinterested in their surroundings until we get to the point of "too late." They would rather watch football and go drinking at the pub and waste time on SnapChat rather than get involved in their own lives.
And that's how these nationalist/totalitarian people rise to power simply on "clever slogans" that catch the imagination and passion of people who have forgotten how to think for themselves.
Yes, that is the issue - disinterested people but what strikes me that people I never thought of are open for nationalist and dull ideas - sad - i even unfriended some as of this - they are then not open for any other approach.
What can we do??
I have a vague theory, somewhat based around the realities of life at given times, and G.J. Jung psychological archetypes... when times are really difficult, economically and "life wise;" (e.g early 1930's Germany; USA 2016) and more and more ordinary people really struggle to stay OK, we become more open to what Jung called the "Strong Father" archetype... life is so hard, so we are more willing to look to a "dictatorial" figure (or political movement) to just make decisions FOR us so we don't have to worry. This underlying.... "stress"... makes people like Hitler and Donald Trump (and other "strong nationalism" leaders) possible in the first place.
Maybe it's a far fetched idea, but it seems to "hold," more often than not.
Yeah I think this is at least true for a part of the voters - but there is more - I hope there is more which we can tackle to avoid a repeated disaster
check the comment below, btw since you are in Germany how are things there, are you still providing refuge for millions :| of Africans I was going to link a movie about the Toxic Somalia (you an search if you wish) but I only found it in Italian. The sad part is that like me the only time most have seen the subject is in either South Park or some bullshit media "show" seems like there are two sides to most stories, piracy being one of those controversial topics.
i do think indeed most media across the world just publish what they want or are allowed by local government. These days with fake news and social media information no one can be sure - I personally do not trust any politician from that ever direction or country in general. Which is absurd and is explaining a bit the issue here.....
Well Obama was all for LGBT+_+++ communities, he didn't value the oppositions. And he didn't stop the wars, like he said he would, he "PULLED OUT" in the worst moment, left the situation a Hell hole and tried his best to get the tensions high as possible.
I'm not a fan of Trump but he was better than Hillary. .
People either have to face up and take responsibility, stop their whateverantics(SJW' . . .. ) those guys are pretty much nazis at this point. Stop watching news so they implode even further. The amount of lies being spilled and the amount of people subscribing to bullshit and taking that as a truth is astounding, the amount of emotional ties being made to corporations, not to reality is saddening, I would guess 80% of the city dwelling population is without a real sight of history, culture, religion, mostly just consuming media and rotating their daily routines without improving or taking away the problematic parts.
News are good I suppose, but if you aren't prepared you will be brainwashed, plus media in general tends to do that for you :)
BTW
Cheers and check out Happy People if you think the world is ending :D no stress there, in the vast tundra :D where you have to live or basically die. Can't go protest :D And burning the forest won't help you either :D
Hey mate - i can not say a lot on US politics - i recognise Obama is very popular outside the US but not on the inside - with our leaders we have a similar thing depending on country - some people tell me openly we are NAZIS again (well i am really not a political guy but telling this in my face could results in some problems for the person telling me!) - I am not a Merkel fan and the invasion has not been handled perfect - bit who could have done this - not going into details but i appreciate the open work! You will never have a perfect system, terorrists come and go no matter what security system you have- Trump is a dick but i agree Hillary would have been even worse but we will see what happens.
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Star Wars, it's funny how people forget history, it really feels like its a long time ago in a galaxy far away and we haven't learned from that point, which only means it can happen again, which yes :|
I don't support wars :|
sad but true - we need to fight that this is not happening - this is something where we should stand up for the right thing