Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. Why? Because for the majority of human history, human beings have lived in bondage, in poverty, under despotic leaders, with little to no freedom. But there’s a reason human beings have time and again voted for their own oppression: freedom is hard. It is not easy to be the governor of your own life. It involves struggle, toil, hard work, and it isn’t easy. Contrast personal freedom with the promise of collective “safety” and “security,” ambiguous terms sold by political charlatans in order to secure their power.
World War II survivor and Austrian Kitty Werthmann is a lesson in history. Her tale of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power is one we should all watch. It’s chilling, it’s terrifying, but worst of all, it sounds familiar. Watch:
Highlights:
Hitler gave everyone a free radio. He was a great orator. And then he nationalized the radio. Citizens were warned if they listened to anything other than Nazi radio, they would be put to death.
The only voice they had was the government radio station and the government controlled newspaper.
Hitler gave Austrian equal rights for everyone. Also, everybody getting a guaranteed income from the government. The equal rights amendment was designed in two components, equality, economics and social. Economics was designed to equalize the countries wealth because everyone was entitled to equal income. To achieve that, they had to raise taxes to 70%.
People got fuel stamps, heating fuel. The government equalized the countries wealth by taxing us. Called socialism.
On the socialism, everyone has to be on the work force. Moms stayed home, raised their families. But in socialism, if you didn’t work, you were called a parasite. Moms had to go to work and leave the kids to where? A daycare center. The longer you left your child with the schools and daycare, the better the government liked it. These caretakers were from the government, trained in psychology, to mold the children.
Education was then nationalized. We had a good education system before Hitler.
Seriously, this account is chilling. The longer you’ll listen to this full account (about 30 minutes) the more your skin will crawl.
But did you notice how Hitler did it? Incrementally. Not over night, not in a day, not in a week. Slowly, over time, one area of life and then another. Do it the Nazi way, it’s the better way. You can’t trust the media, you have to listen to the national media. You cannot trust private institutions, you have to trust the government institutions. And you moms who want to stay at home with your children to raise them right? No, get out of the home, work, and do the right thing by putting your children through our state school.
Scared yet?
Leftist or Obama apologists will claim we’re being paranoid. Fine, I respect your freedom to think whatever you wish. Leftist apologists will say we’re being unfair in comparing their dear leader (Obama or anyone else) to any dictator. Fine, you’re free to tell me whatever you’d like. But if any of you apologists out there want to “report” this post to the government because you dislike it and think it should be removed… congratulations, you’ve proved the point. Where I believe in diversity of thought and more speech and not less, you have deemed anything that goes against your view of government as worthy of banning.
Meanwhile, Obama is making moves to take guns, his IRS has targeted conservative groups, and him and his liberal cohorts lavish praise on socialist governments like Sweden.
So pardon me if I’m a little cautious.
Send your vitriolic hate tweets to @Courtneyscoffs. I’ll be sure to ignore them.
Some of that “highlights” can easily be the Republican Party platform. Create corporate monopolies so there is no competition. Both parents have to work to make ends meet, and thus, the children are raised by schools and daycare. Schools are organized to teach students to be good little workers and follow orders, not to actually learn a great deal. I’m sure if I watched the 33-minute video I could list some more similarities. Both parties are evil and corrupt…that is the truth!
today’s republicans are yesterdays democrats for sure.
The truth is, Our kids are the future. If we can let them enlist and fight for our freedom, Then they should have a voice. Not all these kids can go to war, Some are trying to go to college and get better paying jobs. You know, Like the drones you are voting for right now.They ducked the draft to stay in college. If these young kids are going to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan, Then they have to have a voice. Segregating, Isolating, We want them, But not them is exactly what the right is preaching. Freedom means just that. Fighting or marching, We’re all in this together.
Yeah, that part about upholding the Right To Bear ARMS makes Republicans JUST LIKE HITLER.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not…
Hitler actually made it easier for German citizens to own guns. “Germany had enacted tough gun control laws in 1928, years before the Nazi rise to power. Instead of banning guns, Hitler instead expanded gun ownership for German citizens (he’d already stripped the citizenship of undesirables already) to levels which one cannot even get inside of the United States. The 1938 German Weapons Act actually relaxed all gun ownership restrictions save on pistols. A German citizen could own a fully automatic weapon complete with a grenade launcher, legally, under Nazi control.”
This constant comparison between American liberals (fellow citizens) and Nazis is beyond the sick line now, Crowder. Your cherry-picking, semantic twisting and gross generalizations are irresponsible. I feel for what this woman went through, but her analogies are way the hell off. Funny how you keep leaving out the extreme nationalism, militarization of society, and a nurtured distrust of fellow citizens as hallmarks of naziism. I wonder if this woman would have simultaneously strengthened the Werhmacht while decrying supposed disarmament and decried anyone who criticized the war machine as “unpatriotic.” You’re truly beneath any honest and dignified conversation.
@James: All Americans agree that it was bad to fire people from their jobs for supporting totalitarian regimes responsible for death of millions of people. Yet, today’s liberals applaud for pushing out of job the inventor of JavaScript for pure technical position for supporting marriage between one man and one woman and university professors for suggesting that at least during Halloween students should be allowed to have some sense of humor. The famous moments in history when “science was settled” were during inquisition when Church knew exactly the place of the center of the Universe, during Stalin’s time when the government knew exactly that genetics are wrong, and in today’s America where progressives know for sure how to save the planet and believe that it’s OK to prosecute those who think that climate science should not be politicized. Segregation of Jim Crow was bad (everybody agree with this), however for some reasons segregation in UC Berkley which advertises blacks only housing and segregation (liberal community calls it ‘safe spaces’) on other campuses is good. According to today’s liberal definition of freedom of speech, people who hate Christians must have all the freedom to express their feelings, but those who dislike Islam and/or atheism must be silenced. Trying to ban f-word in schools is an attack to children’s rights to express themselves but banning the rest of words in English is necessary to ensure that nobody’s feeling could be hurt.
Maybe today’s American ‘progressives’ are not Nazis, but I personally don’t see much of the difference between them and inquisitors or communists in USSR.
I lived under Nazi occupation as a child. This woman is BANG ON! You Democrats are too stupid to see it, but Obozo has been a disaster. Thank goodness I live in Canada, but after the October election things are getting off the rails here too. I hope that Ted Cruz will be the next president and start to undo all the damage of the last 7 years
Thankful to live in Canada — a country with socialized medicine and a robust welfare state — rather than “socialist” USA? Whatever your childhood experiences, you’re dead wrong about this stupid (beyond stupid) Nazi analogy.
I saw a newsreel of the Germans parading down the street to cheers of the Austrians – except for one man who, with his back to the parade, accosted this and that person, gesturing and talking. They did not seem interested in what he was saying. Then the man looked into the camera with total fear and desperation on his face. One man -out of thousands – knew what was happening. It is happening in America now, and Ted Cruz says it best. He should be the next President.
I’m calling BS on this story. The Nazi record on women is clear: women were meant to stay home to be mothers. They were never forced to leave there kids in government daycare in order to work. Likewise, Germany’s so-called equality laws in Austria never existed. Rather, INequality was codified as never before. Finally, Hitler loosened gun rights, reversing Weimar era gun restrictions on Germans civilians. This rubbish is a re-puking of American con rhetoric given the facade of historical narrative. Get a more representative sample of people who lived under Nazi rule. This cherry-picking is ridiculous.
…proud National Socialist, anti-American James doesn’t like the dose of reality in this video. Someone that leaves three comments, without a reply, is only here to promote some sort of agenda/worldview.
Methinks he doth protest too much!
Excuse me for cherry picking but this one is simply to ripe to overlook. The same arguments for and against gun control were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group. In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. Constitutional rights were suspended, and mass searches for and seizures of guns and dissident publications ensued. During the five years of repression that followed, society was “cleansed” by the National Socialist regime. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs and arrested their leaders. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to the police forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews. In 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act that even prohibited Jews from working in the firearms industry, and .22 caliber hollow-point ammunition was banned. The time had come to launch a decisive blow to the Jewish community, to render it defenseless so that its “ill-gotten” property could be redistributed as an entitlement to the German “Volk.” The German Jews were ordered to surrender all their weapons, and the police had the records on all who had registered them. Even those who gave up their weapons voluntarily were turned over to the Gestapo. This took place in the weeks before what became known as the Night of the Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, occurred in November 1938. That the Jews were disarmed before it, minimizing any risk of resistance, is the strongest evidence that the massacre and looting of Jewish owned businesses was planned in advance. An incident was needed to justify unleashing the attack. That incident would be the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew. Hitler directed propaganda minister Josef Goebbels to orchestrate the Night of the Broken Glass. This massive operation, allegedly conducted as a search for weapons, entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues. SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed that 20 years be served in a concentration camp by any Jew possessing a firearm. Twenty thousand Jewish men, even WWI veterans were thrown into concentration camps. The U.S. media covered the above events. And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty. So in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. As in Weimar Germany, some well-meaning people today advocate severe restrictions, today advocate severe restrictions, including bans and registration, on gun ownership by law-abiding persons. Such proponents are in no sense “Nazis,” any more than were the Weimar officials who promoted similar restrictions. And it would be a travesty to compare today’s situation to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
Still, as history teaches, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Funny thing is Brian, she is lying. “Nazis had total gun control.”
Hitler actually made it easier for German citizens to own guns. “Germany had enacted tough gun control laws in 1928, years before the Nazi rise to power. Instead of banning guns, Hitler instead expanded gun ownership for German citizens (he’d already stripped the citizenship of undesirables already) to levels which one cannot even get inside of the United States. The 1938 German Weapons Act actually relaxed all gun ownership restrictions save on pistols. A German citizen could own a fully automatic weapon complete with a grenade launcher, legally, under Nazi control.”
Yep, the combination of the establishment Republican party and the establishment Democrat party has pretty much given American it’s own brand of National Socialism for quite a while now. The genius is in the fomenting of anger and the pitting of adherents of either party against one another over issues that are relatively insignificant to the much greater aims that both parties undoubtedly share. It’s why the Keynesian, government-managed corporatism continues in place of real capitalism, and it’s the reason that global, internationalist designs are of higher importance to politicians than truly taking care of Americans first. And yet, people who should really know better are still emotionally suckered into the same tired paradigm of conservative vs liberal even when it’s becoming ever more and more obvious that the purported differences between what’s deemed conservative and liberal in America today are rapidly becoming nonexistent. They’re even losing semblance to what each term originally meant to most Americans for goodness’ sake. In a time when all Americans should be rallying together to affect real change in Washington, we’re being played against each even within party other over stupid, divisive labels such as “New York values”- It’s tragic.
I love this woman.
The point about recruiting informants was a new one for me!! That one has never come up before. It was always bounced around when I was working with vice as a “ride along” [auxillary police] It never occurred to me as a device employed by the Gestapo! What a perfect tool! Not only did it work on the superficial level as it kept the rank & file lawbreakers in check it really threw a net over the entire populace on the subliminal, by making everyone feel like anyone could be another agent for the Gestapo! How efficient! A self feeding machine of doubt and recrimination! And even the higher ups in the Gestapo itself didn’t know whether or not THEY were under constant review!
My family is from Austria. Her story is the same as the stories they tell me. I think it’s unfair to say that liberals exactly like the Nazi’s. I think there are tactics that they share in common. The same can be said for the Republicans. What one should take away from this speech is that people will accept anything so long as the alternative seems worse. How we determine what’s worse by politics, media, and art. Right now, the means are not pointing towards good things. Part of this is our political process and the rest is a media that has an agenda. Is it totalitarian? I don’t know. I hope not.
Excuse me for cherry picking but this one is simply to ripe to overlook. The same arguments for and against gun control were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group. In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. Constitutional rights were suspended, and mass searches for and seizures of guns and dissident publications ensued. During the five years of repression that followed, society was “cleansed” by the National Socialist regime. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs and arrested their leaders. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to the police forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews. In 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act that even prohibited Jews from working in the firearms industry, and .22 caliber hollow-point ammunition was banned. The time had come to launch a decisive blow to the Jewish community, to render it defenseless so that its “ill-gotten” property could be redistributed as an entitlement to the German “Volk.” The German Jews were ordered to surrender all their weapons, and the police had the records on all who had registered them. Even those who gave up their weapons voluntarily were turned over to the Gestapo. This took place in the weeks before what became known as the Night of the Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, occurred in November 1938. That the Jews were disarmed before it, minimizing any risk of resistance, is the strongest evidence that the massacre and looting of Jewish owned businesses was planned in advance. An incident was needed to justify unleashing the attack. That incident would be the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew. Hitler directed propaganda minister Josef Goebbels to orchestrate the Night of the Broken Glass. This massive operation, allegedly conducted as a search for weapons, entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues. SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed that 20 years be served in a concentration camp by any Jew possessing a firearm. Twenty thousand Jewish men, even WWI veterans were thrown into concentration camps. The U.S. media covered the above events. And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty. So in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. As in Weimar Germany, some well-meaning people today advocate severe restrictions, today advocate severe restrictions, including bans and registration, on gun ownership by law-abiding persons. Such proponents are in no sense “Nazis,” any more than were the Weimar officials who promoted similar restrictions. And it would be a travesty to compare today’s situation to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
Still, as history teaches, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
IT’S SAD THAT KIDS TODAY ARE NOT BEING TAUGHT OUR HISTORY. THEY LISTEN TO BERNIE SANDERS AND THINK THAT SOCIALISISM IS NEW. THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE SHOWN TO EVERY AMERICAN! GOD HELP US TO WAKE UP!!!!