“In January 1932, Groener told fellow army leaders that Hitler was a ‘modest, decent individual, with best intentions. In appearance the keen, self-taught type. … Intentions and aims of Hitler are good, but he is an enthusiast, ardent, diffuse. … The Nazis have to be justly treated, only[...]
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Fourth Night of Hanukkah: A call for a true telling of the stories of Israel and Palestine
Just as the history of Hanukkah itself is distorted to make it into something between the Fourth of July and Christmas, the histories of modern Israel, Palestine and the Weimar Republic need to be understood if there is to be peace. Eran Spiro FACEBOOK: Just because the British Mandate of Pales[...]
Second Night of Hanukkah: A Seattle Jew Remembers Germany
Jerry Large / Columnist Seattle’s Franz Wassermann, 96, warns of chilling parallels with Nazi era Originally published December 26, 2016 at 6:00 am Updated December 26, 2016 at 12:07 pm Franz Wassermann, 96, wrote a letter to politicians that he shared with friends and family. (Jerry Large/The S[...]
December 17th, 2016 - 9:24 am § in America
Chicken Soup for the Progressive Soul
Contemplating American Fascism in Light of William Shirer by Bryce Adams Since the election, many liberals have been trying to make sense of the world via ingesting media that amount to Chicken Soup for the Progressive Soul. Me, I’ve been reading William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich[...]
A Jewish Take on November 8
“The words spoken by Donald Trump , like a burst feather pillow, are unrecoverable.” Peretz Wolf-Prusan FACEBOOK .. with illustrations added by THE-Ave Reflecting on last evening’s event between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I now see November 8, our election day, not as the end[...]
May 20th, 2016 - 12:22 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 120: a survivor
Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK Naftali Furst attending 71st liberation ceremony at Buchenwald in Weimar, Germany April 2016. Naftali (with his partner Tova here) serves on the International Camp Committee at Buchenwald. He and his late brother, ages 13 and 12, respectively, arrived on a death march and ope[...]
April 11th, 2016 - 11:01 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 109: April 11: Buchenwald Liberated
(from Jewish Currents) Today is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by U.S. troops in 1945. When the Americans arrived, the camp had just been seized by prisoners, some of whom had been forcibly marched there from Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen (a sub-camp of Sachs[...]
March 12th, 2016 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Right Wing Lies: Did Hitler Confiscate Guns?
NOPE: He actually liberalized them for all bit the Jews! from SLATE: University of Chicago law professor Bernard Harcourt explored this myth in depth in a 2004 article published in the Fordham Law Review. As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’[...]
Trotsky’s prophesies of Hitler, seem all too relevant to Trump
“Field-Marshal Hindenburg, the relic and symbol of the Hohenzollern Empire, now the Republic’s President, dissolved Parliament and appointed Heinrich Brüning Reichskanzler. Brüning ruled by decree, enforced a rigidly ‘deflationary’ policy, cut expenditure on social insurance, dismissed[...]