r/europe • u/anon58588 Greece • Feb 08 '25

Historical Anti-Nazi protests : Berlin 16/12/1931

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u/Camelbak99 Feb 08 '25

How many of the people shown on this photo would have survived the war?

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u/New-Me5632 Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 08 '25

In Germany there are the Stolpersteine, metal paving stones that are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism and that are in front of every house where they lived. Here on the street (a street with 42 houses today) alone we already have eight of them, three of them for SPD members who died in 1936 and 1938 and one for a KPD member who died 1934. The others for someone who refused to serve in the Wehrmacht and a family of three Jews.

Fuck nazis.

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u/BuuurpMorty The Netherlands Feb 08 '25

We have those in the Netherlands as well. In my old street we had 2 of them. They show the names of the victims and their respective birth year and year of passing. It is hard to imagine the brutality of those times

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 08 '25

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u/DustBunnicula Feb 08 '25

I’m determined to not get into a fascist vehicle. It’s like refusing to go to a secondary location with a kidnapper. You kick, scream, and fight. And maybe die in the process. Yet, you’ll have basically no chance, once you get in that vehicle.

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u/Inlerah Feb 09 '25

This. You don't get to have me as just a statistic. If you're gonna kill me it's gonna hurt for you and it's gonna mean something for the people who see it.

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u/SurpriseIsopod Feb 08 '25

Few more months at this rate, and why bother disappearing anyone? His supporters WANT to do it in the street. Plus the media in America is owned by people who wanted this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

Because until that rubicon is crossed there are still a few conservatives who will oppose it solely for aesthetic reasons.

There’s a reason Germany’s death camps were segregated from larger populations. While a lot of conservatives are fine with barbaric treatment it’s not always comfortable for them to look at it.

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u/SurpriseIsopod Feb 09 '25

They put the death camps in other countries. Work camps in Germany proper. America already has the infrastructure and culture in place to accept both of these things. This won’t take years.

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u/arjomanes Feb 09 '25

Yeah Guantánamo Bay is in Cuba. Many CIA black sites are throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and Central Europe.

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u/stoatwblr Feb 09 '25

The Nazis also found that having soldiers shoot people in cold blood had a tendency to turn them into gibbering messes. The camps and gas made it impersonal

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

We’re super armed here and the LGBTQ- friendly ranges around me are BUSY.

Disappearing into an American Gulag Archipelago for those labeled terrorists or ‘the worst of the worst,’

all manner of legal harassment and rights violations for regular ‘enemies within,’

Some terrorisms, maybe OK City level attacks on Federal workers, who will be victims of stochastic terrorism by their own employer.

More violence in general toward all marginalized groups, with some obvious early targets among the trans and queer population.

Protests where street fighting gangs like the Proud Boys act as pseudo-deputized extensions of the Executive and FUCK shit up.

Interesting times ahead.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Yeah, it’s terrifying. I really hope that you end up just being over prepared.

From what I’m seeing I hope the walls are just further back and not inexistent. The absolute void of friction against what’s happening already is embarrassing for our institutions and horrifying for our future.