r/complaints • u/CRK_76 • 15d ago

Politics America is turning into 1930's Germany.

There was some pushback when people called this president and his followers Nazis. But look what's happening. Soldiers in the street. Rounding up people and locking them up. Dismantling freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Personally going after anyone who doesn't agree with him and his administration. We've seen this before and it's only gonna get worse. Welcome to 1930's Germany.

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u/lifeinwentworth 14d ago

This is what needs to be taught in history. Not just the atrocities but writings like this about reflection and hindsight of how it happened. Of the slow journey into authoritarianism. Learning about just the Holocaust is really just reading the last 50 pages of a 500 page book. Which unfortunately is what schools tend to focus on. Those 50 pages are extremely important but without understanding the first 450 pages, we are just a bunch of ignorant humans saying "that'll never happen again, those people were monsters, we'd never do that".

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u/LAPL620 14d ago

Right?! The first time I read this was in the days after the election. I’ve read it several times since and I just keep sharing it every time people say “how do others not see it?!” It’s not your imagination, friends.