William Lindsey Sep 29, 2024

People focus on Hitler and Nazi leaders and the atrocious lethal lies they told to justify the mass murder of Jews.

But they should focus also on the willingness of very many people to believe those lies, to cheer and assist as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and sent to their deaths.

The problem is never just the Hitlers, the Nazis. The problem is us, many of us — our propensity to stigmatize and hate.

#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
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Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 29, 2024

@wdlindsy

The Nazis had plenty of collaborators who converted to the cause of hate & xenophobia.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/collaboration

France's collaborators:
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220826-vichy-s-biggest-stain-the-august-1942-roundup-80-years-on
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ticket_roundup
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%27_d%27Hiv_Roundup

Dutch collaborators:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-archives-on-accused-nazi-collaborators-to-open-to-the-public-in-2025/

Hungary:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party

Are these traitors to democracy any different than the Texas vigilantes reporting women for having a suspected abortion?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/insidious-draconian-cruel-new-texas-abortion-law-empowers-vigilantism-experts-n1274642

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/texas-lawsuit-suing-friends-explained.html

https://otherwords.org/abortion-ban-extremists-are-using-a-slave-law-to-repress-women/

Collaboration

To perpetrate the Holocaust, Nazi Germany relied on the help of allies and collaborators from across Europe, including governments, institutions, and individuals.

Show threadlolonurseSep 29, 2024
@Npars01 @wdlindsy
But there were also people who helped Jewish people. I had a cousin (German Jew) who escaped from CC, fled to Denmark & was part of the underground. You would never have imagined it - he was mild, quiet, gentle. He never spoke about it. I only knew because my grandmother told me. And the only Danish words he ever spoke were things meant to amuse us kids.
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 30, 2024

@lolonurse @wdlindsy

The Danes were super wonderful!!!

95% of Denmark's Jews were saved through dangerous evacuations by sea.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231002-gilleleje-denmarks-seaside-town-that-saved-danish-jews

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/rescue-of-the-danish-jews

https://time.com/6332953/denmarks-effort-to-save-jewish-population-world-war-ii/

https://www.history.com/news/wwii-danish-jews-survival-holocaust

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews

The town that stood up to the Nazis

This October, a fishing town on the Danish Riviera remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War Two: its role in the flight and escape of the Danish Jews.

BBC
Show threadKee Hinckley
@Npars01 @jstatepost @lolonurse @wdlindsy Fred Small wrote a great song about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf69cITTjCg
Denmark 1943

YouTube
Oct 5, 2024 at 4:33amWeb
Show threadlolonurseOct 5, 2024
@nazgul @Npars01 @jstatepost @wdlindsy
Thank you for sharing that. It put a lump in my throat.
Today is both Rosh Hashanah and the anniversary of my mother's death🕯️ (45 years now - how can that be?!)- anyway, I think I'll share this song with the daughters of my late cousin Isi, who joined the Danish underground after he escaped from Theresienstadt. 💙