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Andrew Stroehlein
Tom Sullivan@andrewstroehlein Donald Trump’s MAGA disciples bristle at comparisons to 1930s Germany. Just not enough to reconsider actions that evoke them.
Jeff@TomSullivan @andrewstroehlein they're making comparisons to the Reichstag fire. Aren't they the Nazis in that comparison?
Democracy Matters 
Wow. Good find!
@DemocracyMattersALot @andrewstroehlein Odd that the New York Times did not find it.
Church of Jeff@andrewstroehlein --
Another example of, "If you don't want to be compared to Nazis, stop doing things the Nazis did."
Another example of, "If you don't want to be compared to Nazis, stop doing things the Nazis did."
Levka
Pino Carafa
Toni Aittoniemi@andrewstroehlein It’s not 1933 again. It’s 1939 again. Tick-tock!
Armin Hanisch@gimulnautti @andrewstroehlein Well, will be interesting then end of 2031 how they’ll all be doing in the trials. 😎
ArchaeoIain@andrewstroehlein Mrs Goebbels made a nice strudel, they said.
FediThing 
@andrewstroehlein For anyone wondering, this is real, it's not a parody.
Electrojcr@andrewstroehlein Sep. 19, 2025 Propaganda Minister Brendan Carr Seizes His Horst Wessel Moment
@andrewstroehlein Maybe I am being too obscure. Seeing NYTimes archive headline re: Goebbels shutting down comic commentators rhymes with what we're seeing with news media and comedy in the US.
Wessel was murdered in 1930 and used as a youthful martyr by Goebbels et al.
Today trans/antifi are the Others to hate and anybody not towing that line will be silenced. Stunningly, FCC Chair Carr, relishes punishing all who who won't. This is the moment.
xs4me2Guess we need no more evidence about the parallels.
If it quacks like a duck…
The thing is, what to do about it…
starry_dreamer@xs4me2 @andrewstroehlein I think Nepal has some good ideas
@starry_dreamer @andrewstroehlein
You might be right…
@andrewstroehlein some choice quotes from the article:
"The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms"
Note "previous" -- this wasn't even the first purge.
"What amused the public most [...] is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders"
So basically they were late-night comics.
Bill Zaumen@andrewstroehlein In 1942, Ernst Lubitsch's film "to be or not to be" has a hilarious scene with Jack Benny as a ham Polish actor impersonating a German spy and Sig Ruman as Colonel Ehrhardt, the head of the Gestapo in Warsaw.
There's a running joke in which someone tells that joke about Hitler, someone thinks it is not funny, followed by "I hope you don't think I'm disloyal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCAML8Pmpc
The 1942 version is IMHO much better than the Mel Brook's remake, and relevant today.
To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Fake-Prof. Siletsky consults with the real Col. Erhardt.
@iveyline@andrewstroehlein Chilling given today's US and attacks on free speech.
Eric Schutte@andrewstroehlein
Antifa in action on june 6, 1944 👇🏼
#uspol #FascismInTheUSA #antifa #RemoveTrump #SaveDemocracy
Antifa in action on june 6, 1944 👇🏼
#uspol #FascismInTheUSA #antifa #RemoveTrump #SaveDemocracy
Dr. Christopher Kunz@andrewstroehlein One of those five was Werner Finck (who had already had been in a northern German concentration camp by 1939) and he made really good puns (some of which are hard to translate).
He once said on stage, directed at the Gestapo spies who were taking notes of his performance: "Am I speaking too fast? Are you following me - or will I have to follow you?"
Justbeep@andrewstroehlein
We know how Göbbels ended.
We still have to understand how we can optimize the timing.
helgenughelgenug (@[email protected])
@[email protected] The next #GordonDeitrich of our time. #JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert
Jens Michael B.-Hansen@[email protected]
same thing, same idiopathic mindset
same thing, same idiopathic mindset