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Undated:
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30
April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the
Nazi Party
(Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP). He rose to power
as
Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later Führer in
1934.[a]
During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated
World War II in Europe by
invading Poland in September 1939. He was closely involved in military
operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of
the
Holocaust.
Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed
criticism of a new practice at his rallies that has been compared to the "Heil"
salute from Nazi Germany, dismissing the controversy as "ridiculous" before
saying he would look into ending it.
"I don't know about the Hitler comparison. I hadn't heard that, but it's a
terrible comparison. I'm not happy about that certainly," Trump said on ABC's
"Good Morning America."
March 11:How GOP anti-intellectualism created a modern
fascist movement in America
In an interview with
Slate,
the historian of fascism Robert
Paxton warns against describing Donald Trump as fascist because “it’s almost the
most powerful epithet you can use.” But in this case, the shoe fits. And here
is why.
Like Mussolini, Trump rails against intruders (Mexicans) and enemies
(Muslims), mocks those perceived as weak,
encourages a violent reckoning with those his followers perceive as the enemy
within (the roughing up of protesters at his rallies), flouts the rules of civil
political discourse (the Megyn Kelly menstruation spat), and promises to restore
the nation to its greatness not by a series of policies, but by the force of his
own personality (“I will be great for” fill in the blank).
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/11/trumps_not_hitler_hes_mussolini_how_gop_anti_intellectualism_created_a_modern_fascist_movement_in_america/
October 21:How fascist is Donald Trump?
There’s actually a formula for that.
Grading the billionaire on the 11 attributes of fascism.
Fascism was born in Italy during World War I and came to power with the
ex-journalist and war veteran Benito Mussolini in 1922. Since the 1950s, dozens
of top historians and political scientists have put fascism, especially the
Italian and German versions, under the microscope. They’ve come up with a pretty
solid agreement on what it is, both as a political ideology and as a political
movement, factoring in all the (sometimes contradictory) things its progenitors
said as they ascended to power. As a political ideology, fascism has eight main
traits. As a political movement, it has three more. So: Just how fascist is
Trump? On the fascist meter, we can award him zero to four “Benitos.”
[each]
Add all this up, and you get 26 out of a possible 44 Benitos. In the fascist
derby, Trump is a loser. Even Spain’s Francisco Franco and Portugal’s António de
Oliveira Salazar might score higher. While there is a strong family resemblance,
and with some features an uncanny likeness, Trump doesn’t fit the profile so
well on those points where the use of violence is required. Projecting an air of
menace at rallies, uttering ambiguous calls for assassinations, tacitly
endorsing the roughing-up of protesters, urging the killing of terrorists’
families and whatever else Trump does — while shocking by the standards of
American politics — fall far short of the genuinely murderous violence endorsed
and unleashed by authentic fascists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/21/how-fascist-is-donald-trump-theres-actually-a-formula-for-that/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b8d17f01a28
November 7: A man who compared the Donald Trump
campaign to Adolf Hitler's in the 1930s says he is glad to have started "one of
the more civilised discussions" on the US presidential debate.
The tweeter, who says his name is Johan Franklin, posted a note to Americans on
Friday from "the people of Germany" asking "what could possibly go wrong?" if
they vote for the "guy with the loud voice", who "threatens to imprison his
opponents".
He said: "You cannot compare Trump (or anybody) to the monster that was Hitler.
December 8: Obama told
the Economic Club: ‘We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things
could fall apart quickly.
‘That’s what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of
the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific
achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate.
January 30: On the eve of President Donald
Trump’s first State of the Union address, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn drew a stark
comparison about the direction of the country, comparing American politics today
to Germany “right after... Hitler was elected.”
September 24: [From "why do people love -or
hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]
11. He’s nationalist rather than globalist.
World War II was a fight between nationalism and globalism. Did you know that
the “N” in “Nazi” comes from the fact that Hitler’s party called themselves
“National” Socialists? So if you’re on the side of nationalism v. globalism,
you’re taking the side of Nazis and the losers in the last tragic World War.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/
October 5:
A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany
“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of
American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”
Usually, comparisons between Donald Trump’s America and Nazi Germany come from
cranks and internet trolls. But a new essay in
the New York Review of Books pointing out “troubling similarities” between
the 1930s and today is different: It’s written by Christopher Browning, one of
America’s most eminent and well-respected historians of the Holocaust. In it, he
warns that democracy here is under serious threat, in the way that German
democracy was prior to Hitler’s rise — and really could topple altogether.
Browning, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, specializes
in the origins and operation of Nazi genocide. His 1992 book
Ordinary Men, a close examination of how an otherwise unremarkable
German police battalion evolved into an instrument of mass slaughter, is widely
seen as one of the defining works on how typical Germans became complicit in
Nazi atrocities.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17940610/trump-hitler-history-historian
October 7:
We tracked down one of Hitler's last living family members on Long Island and
found he likes Merkel and dislikes Trump
There's an American flag raised in the front yard of brothers Brian and Louis'
place.
Adolf Hitler was the uncle of their father, William Patrick Hitler. Born in the
United Kingdom, "Willy" emigrated to the US in 1930. In the Navy, he fought
against the Kriegsmarine (the name of the German navy at that time). Back then,
they still used their old family name.
Hitler against Hitler. A coup for the American war propaganda. Afterward, Willy
Hitler became a phantom. He withdrew to Long Island with his German wife,
Phyllis. He wanted to spare his sons the curse of the worst family name in world
history. He was also worried about the remaining Nazis — Hitler had hated his
nephew and called him "loathsome."
https://www.businessinsider.com/hitlers-descendant-merkel-trump-2018-10
October 9:
RELATIVES of notorious Nazi leader Adolf Hitler have been quietly living in the
US [and born in the U.S.] under false identities since World War II, it
has been revealed.
And now, the German dictator’s oldest living male descendant has given a rare
media interview — branding US President Donald Trump a “liar” in the process.
November
29: Venezuela’s president boosts wages, compares Trump to Hitler
Venezuela’s socialist president boosted the minimum wage 150 percent Thursday to
combat what he called an economic war being waged by the United States as he
compared U.S. President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
“Just like Hitler persecuted the Jewish people, Donald Trump persecutes the
people of Venezuela,” President Nicolas Maduro said.
