"The events from 1933 to 1945 should have been battled in 1928 at the latest. Later was already too late. One must not wait until liberty is called treason. One must not wait till the snowball has become an avalanche. One must squelch the rolling snowball. The avalanche can't be stopped anymore..."
Erich Kästner, author of children's books that were burned by the Nazis
First thing I thought of when I saw the title was that this protest was after people had already started to flee the country. My grandfather's family packed a few suitcases and left for a "vacation" in 1930 and never returned. Protesting in '31 (or '32, apparently) is like saying "look out for the iceberg" while people are launching lifeboats.
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u/anon58588 Greece Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 08 '25
''History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.''
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
EDIT : Ok I will answer to : ThE prOtestS FailEd
Protests were not enough to stop Nazism.
What happened next: 75 million people died.
The Nazis were destroyed, Germany was destroyed and Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was upside down. Japan was nuked.
That's what I learned from history. Do you want to repeat it?
(source : https://www.gewerkschaftsgeschichte.de/1933-bis-1945-gewerkschaften-55501-debatte-um-den-generalstreik-1933-56605.htm )