I’m just curious what people like Marco Rubio and Mark Zuckerberg, who are passively supportive of the installation of authoritarianism, would have learned at school about that period in Germany.

I’m asking this as that question and not as a leading question into a discussion on today’s politics.

What is the level of awareness the average American person in their 40s and 50s on how the Third Reich started?

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I’m in the demographic you’re looking for. It went something like this:

    • End of WWI with the Treaty of Versailles
    • Massive war repayment debts placed on Weimar Republic
    • Beer Hall Putsch
    • The Weimar Republic falling because of disenfranchised German citizens
    • Nazi party rising in power in the Reichstag
    • Brown shirts (SA)
    • Burning of the Reichstag
    • Hitler seizing power
    • Night of the Long Knives
    • The west ignoring military limits on German military expansion (aircraft, Panzer 1)
    • Annexation of Austria
    • Talk of leibenstrom

    etc

    Thats from memory. Apologies for butchering any spelling or some of those events out of order.

    So, yes, lots and LOTS of things in the USA government right now are ringing alarm bells like crazy. Executive orders just this week of military support for local police “to root out immigrants” sound close to creation of the Brownshirts (SA). The villainization of immigrants sound disgustingly close to the targeting of various minority groups that Hitler targeted (Roma, Jews, gays, Poles).