Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, but the story there is that most people didn’t get smuggled out.

    I know it’s anecdotal, but if you read writers of that era, a lot of biographies end up with “and he died in a concentration camp”.

    Or the poet whose last work was the poem “Forced March”. He didn’t make it to the camp, died in a ditch.

    Most people affected didn’t make it out, and most people didn’t have the courage to help.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the scariest part about fascism.

      Most people won’t lift a finger for you even if you are a civilian being lined up to get shot with your wife and child.

    • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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      And yet there ARE stories that also end in “they got married and had a giant family and died of old age.” To deny these are to deny the survivors and the people who helped.