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History Repeating … Again

24 Monday Nov 2025

Posted by in Adolph Hitler, Putin, Ukraine

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Few people know the importance of March 7, 1936. That was when Adolph Hitler ordered his army to invade the demilitarized area of the Rhineland. The area was a manufacturing area with large coal reserves allowing heavy equipment like tanks, ships and planes to be built. The army chiefs were afraid to do so with their tiny army because they would be crushed by the neighboring countries. Nothing happened telling Hitler he was free to do as he wanted so he started building up his military.

His next target was to the South of Germany. Being Austrian he invaded Austria on March 12, 1938 declaring it a Province of Germany. There was no response from the rest of the World and his agents had worked with the Austrian leaders to allow a peaceful takeover.

Next he wanted Czechoslovakia. The Czechs didn’t want to give him a part of their country. Hitler’s threats to invade created a fear of another war so an agreement was reached on September 30, 1938 between Germany. England. France and Italy giving him the part of Czechoslovakia he wanted. The Munich agreement negotiations did not involve any Czechs. March 12 he got thirty-eight percent of the country including its defensive positions. Later, on March 15, 1939 he invaded and took the rest with little resistance. He declared it a Special Province of Germany.

After signing the Munich Agreement Neville Chamberlain, England’s Prime Minister, declared “Peace In Our Time”. All the appeasing made Hitler think he could take the Eastern half of Poland (Stalin and Hitler had agreed to divide Poland) without any military response from the rest of Europe. He was wrong and war was declared by the allies on September 3, 1939.

Does Putin’s playbook sound just like Hitler’s. He has already incorporated parts or all of other countries so is Ukraine a fighting Czechoslovakia or will it be invading NATO and the Baltic countries causing the next war? He has plans for many countries?

History Lesson

15 Sunday Dec 2024

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        As a student of History, let me give the reader a bit of history to compare with another time. When Adolph Hitler became leader of Germany he put people into positions of authority solely on their sworn loyalty to him. Several were sexual perverts and criminals. He picked out an ethnic group and called them subhuman and a religious group calling them the reason Germany was suffering.

            Hitler curried favor and a sense of loyalty from the major industrialists by talking about his plans to build a new Germany. He told them of his plans to build new highways and rebuild the military. They would employ millions of good German workers while making millions for them. They built the Autobahn so troops and supplies could be moved back and forth quickly and built new factories and foundries to make equipment.

            His appointment of Joseph Goebbels to make sure the people heard and read only what they should know, no matter how much of it was fabricated. By using the Federal Police powers, the Media either followed the directed line or were met with jail, concentration camp, or murdered. Remember the motto, “If you say it often enough people will believe it.”  Of course, if a German didn’t believe it, jail awaited or worse.

            Hitler’s power over the Generals required personal loyalty or shunted aside into retirement. Soon all new recruits had to swear allegiance to him and not to Germany. The promises of a new and more powerful Germany kept them loyal even as he interfered with planning often causing disasters.             Hitler and Germany can be replaced by Putin and Russia. Can the reader see another leader who demands loyalty from appointees with poor character to positions of power? Several are crooks and sexual perverts. Few if any have any experience or skill in management. Who could it be? Will the people see what is coming or wait as happened in Germany and Russia?

Could This Be Our Last Vote?

23 Saturday Nov 2024

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        As a student of History, I have studied dictators who have ruled over the millennia usually to the detriment of their citizens. Two twentieth Century dictators who died before most of today’s Americans were born are Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Germans and the Italians were extremely adept at gaining people’s confidence and loyalty; they both were originally elected and put their loyalist followers into offices that would control the people.

            Hitler unlike Mussolini used his first group of followers to harass the German Jews who he had designated as the reason the Axis Powers lost World War One and caused thousands of percent inflation. When the Brown Shirts became a political detriment he had his new follower’s, the Black Shirts, kill off the leaders of the original group. He bought the leaders of the new group with important government posts and the industrialists with special advantages and contracts. He got rid of or put in meaningless duties generals who he thought wouldn’t blindly obey his. The other officers and all men in uniform swore loyalty to him and him alone.

            The majority of Germans were so duped into believing Hitler took complete control of all three branches of the government. He put loyalists in the courts, in the legislature, and in the federal police and the newly created the Gestapo. Hitler had anyone creating problems killed or put into concentration camps.

            Vladimir Putin has done exactly the same thing in this century. Putin though was trained by the KGB on how to manipulate people and how to get narcissists and egoists to do as KGB agents want.

            Can you think if anyone who is following Hitler’s methods today? Who will have control of all three branches and majority of the State Governments?? Look up what it takes to eliminate the XXII Amendment!

History Repeats Itself

27 Tuesday Feb 2024

Posted by in Anti-Semitism, Repeating History

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        I wonder how many people knew how close America came to being taken over by the American NAZI Party before they watched the PBS American Experience. It was an in-depth history of the movement before and during the Depression. Nearly a third of the Senate was Nazis or supporters of the movement. Hundreds of famous people were supporting it with money and/or public commitment.

            With all my knowledge through college courses and studies, I did not know how powerful the Nazis were and how close they were to taking control of America. They had maybe a hundred boys and girls summer camps like the ones Hitler was using to indoctrinate German youth. Their parents were included with the children in training of hatred of non-European and non-Christian peoples. This hatred involved Jews, Blacks, and Browns. There was little difference between the rallies here and in Germany. The leaders and many others wore the Brown Shirt uniforms with the swastika and salutes. They hung their flags next to the American flag to transfer the patriotism of one to the other.

            When Germans invaded Poland the movement pushed to not support England in their war. One of their front men in the movement was Charles Lindbergh. Of course the public’s view changed after Pearl Harbor and Germany declaring war on America.

            However many Nazi-like groups have the same youth camps today. These Neo-Nazis and groups like them have been bringing their beliefs back. The rise of anti-Semitism and racial discrimination is returning. Added to the persecution of Jews are Muslims and other Religions.

            We must be aware that History is starting to repeat itself and most people are unaware of the danger. WAKE UP AMERICA!