It's called a Runes key, there are a number of surviving examples.
Posted on 06/22/2020 7:00:34 AM PDT by SJackson
They’re back in the public domain – and they’re an unconscionable libel.
Comparisons of the United States and Nazi Germany have a long pedigree, from the “fascist” New Deal in the 1930s to “(George W.) Bush-Hitler” after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
More recently, Anne Applebaum, a columnist for The Washington Post, claimed in The Atlantic that, in their “apocalyptic thinking,” U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr and other members of President Trump’s administration are contemporary equivalents of the Nazi collaborators in charge of Vichy France, the puppet regime the Nazis established during World War II that assisted in the Holocaust, and some of whose leaders later were executed as traitors.
Now, revived by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the comparison again is in the public domain.
But any analogy or comparison between the Nazi and American systems is invalid. A factual basis for it does not exist.
This certainly is true for the Floyd killing itself. By no rational standard of comparison can the actions of the Minneapolis police officers be characterized, as they recently were by Central Connecticut State University professor Aram Ayalon, as “reminiscent of Nazi Germany.” Nor can the indignation these same actions induced in Rep. Eric Swallwell, D-Calif., justify Swallwell’s subsequent description of Richard Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany in the Trump administration, as “Goebbels with a Twitter account.” Nazi police who killed Jews and others considered genetically inferior in Nazi ideology never were indicted, tried and convicted in any German court. To the Nazis, the whole notion of the rule of law, in which the government and the people exist in a mutual and moral relationship, based on shared rights and obligations, was ridiculous.
From 1933 to 1945, the legal basis for what the Nazis did in every aspect of domestic governance was the so-called Enabling Act, giving Adolf Hitler carte blanche to rule unconstrained by laws or any existing institution. The United States, with its Constitution, its separation of powers and its federalism, is entirely different.
Citizenship in Nazi Germany did not entail any allegiance to a government or a system of laws. The Nazis ordained that under Hitler, the people’s primary allegiance would not be to Germany as a nation, or even to the German government. Rather, it would be to the “Fuhrer,” the absolute leader, who was Hitler himself.
Moreover, in Nazi Germany, there was a national police. Nothing comparable to it exists in the United States. Shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933, local and regional police forces were absorbed into the newly-established Geheime Staatspolizei (or Secret State Police, known colloquially by the acronym “Gestapo”), which in turn was subordinated to the Schutzstaffel (“Honor Guard of the Leader” or for short, the SS), the sole loyalty of which was to Hitler.
In that way, the SS was not bound by laws of any kind, and oral directives from Hitler were sufficient to sanction the so-called Einsatzgruppen, special units of the SS that accompanied the German army into the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, killing Jews at will. This supra-legal national police force also was responsible for rounding up homosexuals, Roma, and others deemed racially inferior, who were shot or incarcerated in camps until their liberation in 1945. And it was the SS that was responsible for ensuring that the millions of Soviet soldiers who were captured offered no resistance to their enslavement in labor camps, where fully two-thirds of them were worked to death.
The SS was so omnipresent a force in German society that typewriters manufactured while it existed had a special key that, with one press of a finger, produced two s’s on the typed page. One searches America today in vain for any comparable institution.
Although there have been peaceful marches in the United States protesting government policy since the nation’s founding more than two centuries ago, there were none in Nazi Germany. And the only instances in Nazi Germany of mass looting and arson were encouraged by the government, which not only did nothing to stop them; on occasion, it joined in the mayhem.
The best-known example is Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”) on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in which elements of what remained of the SA – the organization of brawlers and criminals Hitler used before becoming German chancellor in January 1933 – assisted ordinary people in destroying thousands of Jewish businesses and killing hundreds of Jews.
If the same had been the case for the rioting of recent vintage in the United States – if the Trump administration for some reason had encouraged it, sanctioned it and participated in it – comparisons with Nazi Germany would be appropriate. But in reality, such comparisons are absurd. Antifa is not an arm or an agency of the FBI or the Department of Justice.
In sum, any analogy between American and Nazi law enforcement, and more broadly between the United States and Nazi Germany, is not merely false. It is an unconscionable libel and a moral obscenity.
Democrat governors did this at the state level for COVID-19. Anything they wanted immediately became law. Close the churches. Ban peaceful assembly. Shutdown some businesses. Allow other businesses. Completely arbitrary, untroubled by written law.
The “Everyone I don’t like is Hitler” crowd.
The author is wrong. Antifa and BLM are quickly becoming the socialists’ storm troopers. Political Correctness, as retarded as that phrase is, has become a tool for shaping the social scene so that segments of the population can be dehumanized and demonized.
Entire generations of America’s children have been taught nothing of American and world history, damning us to relive the hells of our past.
bkmk
I do see valid comparisons between the Left and the early NAZI party. Both groups clearly despise our constitutional rights and both use brown shirts to silence opposing parties.
“The SS was so omnipresent a force in German society that typewriters manufactured while it existed had a special key that, with one press of a finger, produced two s’s on the typed page.”
Uhhh...I have to call BS on this.
There is a character used in German writing called a scharfes-S or eszett (lit. “sharp S”). It looks like a capital B or Greek “beta”, and is used to represent a long-S or -SZ sound in front of a vowel. In more recent years the trend has been to replace it with “ss” in writing, and apparently Switzerland has completely phased out its use.
This key sounds more like a high-speed/professional-grade substitution for the eszett character.
In addition, I looked online at several pictures of vintage German typewriters, and *none* of them had an “SS” key like the author describes.
I disagree. I compare the BLM/Antifa crowd to the Communist Stasi. They lasted longer, and made the Gestapo look like amateurs.
Likely you already have a detailed understanding of the Frankfurt School. But if not, please do a study of the Frankfurt School. Members of that school like Eric Fromm and Herbert Marcuse were regular reading in our college days. Their theory is behind the cultural marxism currently dominant on the college campuses.
Joe Rogan is probably closest to being like Johnny Carson on youtube. Money and youtube censorship has caused him to sign a 100 million contract with spotify to move to their channel in january next year.
A couple years ago Bret Weinstein was an uber liberal college professor at Evergreen State College in Washington State until he was driven off by students for being racist. The reasons were as weird and unintelligible then as are the racist cries being made by liberals nationwide today. Weinstein predicted that the movement that afflicted this small liberal arts college then would go nationwide. He told Joe Rogan as much a year ago. So Rogan had him back on last week.
Weinstein went further. He said that the radicals now are explicitly about “disassembling the very things that make the west marvelous. It is anti science. It got Nature, Science Magazine CalTech all these top level scientific institutions to broadcast the hastag #ShutdownSTEM” in support of Thousands of scientists go on strike to protest systemic racism in STEM. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/thousands-of-scientists-go-on-strike-to-protest-systemic-racism-stem.html
Weinstein goes on to say that “ the reason these people are attacking STEM is because of its connection to critical theory. Critical Theory didn’t come from science. The word “theory” is basically pilferred. Its being used in the most ironical fashion. Critical theory is a narrative that’s now become a religious movement. It is anti STEM on the basis it claims that science is racist—inherently.”
He goes on to talk about how the practitioners are cultural marxists of the frankfurt school. Their aim is to destroy the sciences in the universities because they are inherently racist.
The program 28 minutes if you’d like to listen to it in its entirety. It was broadcast last thursday June 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XYi6E2QpI
BLM/Antifa are on path to kindle a new global war - the hot kind. The stasi managed to keep their war cold.
That’s what “emergency powers” are for. People demanded they be activated, too. Surprisingly (not really), in many places the governors/mayors are reluctant to rein in their own power.
The street gangs “Political violence” and their promotion through the mass media, together with the 24/7 propaganda war waged against us by that same media, plus the incessant undercutting of moral values and the total Big Lie and obstruction campaign from the D-Soroznazi Party — these are the very same tactics the original Nazis wager to seize control of Germany. Soroznazi learned well from his Nazi mentors
Roosevelt - came to power in 1933. Left office by death in 1944.
Hitler - came to power in 1933. Left office by death in 1945.
Roosevelt - set up the CCC labor battalions.
Hitler - set up the RAD labor battalions.
Roosevelt - a socialist and a nationalist.
Hitler - a nationalist and a socialist.
Roosevelt - put Japanese, Germans, and Italians in concenteration camps based on ethnicisity.
Hitler - put Jews and Gypsies in concentration camps based on ethnicisity.
etc.
I don’t see how anyone could possibly compare the two.
Question for the poster - is the author of this article a liar, or an idiot?
In any event, he has no credibility.
It's called a Runes key, there are a number of surviving examples.
If Trump was as they portray him, his detractors would be confined in the camps, or just disappeared.
Roosevelt died in April 1945
One of the Nazi hunters described the Stasi as far more oppressive than the Nazi organizations.
It seems that the media is also on the Manson Family bandwagon.
Mark
Yep, thanks for the correction. April 12, 1945. Hitler April 30.
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