Jews in 1932 Voted for Hitler, and They Paid for That Vote With Their Lives
Latinos should think about that history before casting votes for Trump.
In 1932, a group called the Association of German National Jews cast tens of thousands of votes for Adolf Hitler. Middle-class, anti-communist, small business owners, and nationalistic World War I veterans, the men and women of this association believed that Hitler was merely playing up the antisemitic rhetoric to “stir up the masses” to vote for him.
The group’s leader, Max Naumann, did all he could to get the Nazis to accept him and his group. Naumann was publicly against the “eastern Jews” coming to Germany from Slavic countries like Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Many middle-class Jews in Germany regarded the Eastern Jews as beneath them because they were farmers, overtly religious, and not assimilated into German society — kind of the way many Latinos and Hispanics living in the U.S. regard those not living here.
Naumann’s group was outlawed in 1935. In 1939, the Gestapo sent him to a concentration camp outside of Berlin. He was released after a few weeks and died shortly after of cancer.
Most of the members of the Association died in concentration camps. Believing to the end that Germany was their home and Hitler their leader, ignorance led them to their deaths. Believing they were Germans first and doing everything they could to eradicate their “Jewness,” the Party they lived for became the one they died for because that Party never forgave them for being Jews first and foremost.
I don’t believe that most MAGidiots today would put all Latinos in camps. But, if Trump wins and his promised mass deportations begin, the “stirred-up masses” can very quickly lose control, and before you know it, all Latinos, and even the pro-Trump ones, become the enemy. Trump will soon be dead or at least maimed by dementia. That is when all of the evil he has cultivated since 2015 starts pulling the triggers; starts carrying out the most extremist promises of Trump. The same ones that Fox & Friends and most members of the Republican Congress laugh about and provide cover for Trump by saying stuff like, “Oh, you know, Trump will be Trump.”
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Too true !!!