Nazis Boycott Jewish Shops

[Changenow]

Just a week after the Enabling Act made Hitler dictator of Germany, a national boycott of Jewish shops and department stores was organized by Nazis under the direction of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

The boycott was claimed to be in reaction to unflattering newspaper stories appearing in Britain and America concerning Hitler's new regime. The Nazis assumed most journalists were either Jewish or sympathetic to Jews and thus they labeled the bad publicity as "atrocity propaganda" spread by "international Jewry."

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http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-boycott.htm


The Gestapo is Born

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On February 10, 1936, the Nazi Reichstag passed the 'Gestapo Law' which included the following paragraph: "Neither the instructions nor the affairs of the Gestapo will be open to review by the administrative courts." This meant the Gestapo was now above the law and there could be no legal appeal regarding anything it did.

Indeed, the Gestapo became a law unto itself. It was entirely possible for someone to be arrested, interrogated and sent to a concentration camp for incarceration or summary execution, without any outside legal procedure.

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http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-boycott.htm

I wanted to find out where we are in the process and these passages jumped out at me. By 1936 concentration camps were built; from what leaks out of Gitmo, it isn't much better. Maybe smaller, but who knows for certain?

[liberalmuse]

1. Concentration camps...

this is why our 'revolution' must be non-violent. I believe people like Bush will try to find the first opportunity they can to justify securing their 'enemies' in prison camps. I don't trust my fellow Americans anymore--the ones who voted for this dangerously incompetent buffoon. They are like dazed sheep, and Bush will be able to make them do anything he wants them to do.

[Edmond Dantes]

2. I agree 100%

Let's not give them any excuses to round us up.

NO VIOLENCE.

[bri_in_austin]

3. Very interesting...

I find striking similarity with this quote "Gestapo was now above the law" and the fact that the Bushies are trying to get away with ridding the country of trial lawyers.

Without trial lawyers, who will represent the people when they are wronged?

[Changenow]

6. We now have a partisan in charge of the CIA.

There are eerie parallels.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Nazis Boycott Jews, Republicans Boycott Liberal Artists.

We all know where this is going to.

[teach1st]

5. Read the entire thing...

..and replace the words "Jewish" and "Jew" with the word "Gay."

[jpatti]

7. They may *start* with gays, but...

...their *real* enemies are liberals. They've been saying so for years.

I'd also point out that comparing the US to Nazi Germany isn't appropriate, really. Germany was not the strongest country in the world with piles of weapons of mass destruction. This is going to be *way* worse than that.

[Changenow]

8. How long do you think we have?

I'm very afraid.