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True Dough

(17,246 posts) Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:34 PM Aug 2019

It's as if Anne Frank was writing about today...

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It's as if Anne Frank was writing about today... (Original Post) True Dough Aug 2019 OP

Does that make us the Good Germans? CrispyQ Aug 2019 #1

It makes you wonder, doesn't it? True Dough Aug 2019 #2

CrispyQ

(36,413 posts)

1. Does that make us the Good Germans?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:40 PM

Aug 2019

Good Germans is a term referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way. The term further denotes those who claimed ignorance of the Holocaust and German war crimes. Wikipedia

True Dough

(17,246 posts)

2. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:53 PM

Aug 2019

The argument Trump and his acolytes would use is that the targeted immigrants are here illegally. But then the Nazis used some twisted reasons to vilify and exterminate the Jews.

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