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Thursday, January 2, 2020
The Trump GOP/German National Socialists connection
If "strongman" and lover of strongmen Trump can expand his base of supporters who have a "proclivity toward authoritarianism", then we are in trouble.
Columnist outlines the frightening similarities between Trump’s America and 1930’s Germany. (Raw Story, 12/30/2019)
“A polarizing would-be despot as national leader, rising anti-Semitism, an out-of-control upper bureaucracy, a politicized media and education systems, an economically stressed middle class, widespread dalliance with extremist ideologies and the rise of armed militant groups,” Kotkin writes. “America’s descent to authoritarianism is far from pre-ordained, but the reality remains that it could happen here, and perhaps already is.”
On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day.
A view of a small sliver of the Centre's thought-provoking exhibit is shown below. Donald Trump and his takeover of the Republican Party frequently came to mind as I walked through it.
Photo by Retiring Guy
Frankfurt Germany Weihnachtsmarkt 2019
Photos and video by Retiring Guy
Frankfurter Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market)
This is what the area looked like in March 1944 after a series of WWII aerial bombing raids
Related reading:
Frankfurt returns to normal after WWII bomb defused. (France24, 7/7/2019)
Around 2,000 dud bombs are believed to remain buried in Frankfurt, which was heavily bombed by American and British forces in the last years of the war.
The skyline today. Frankfurt can claim Germany's most modern skyline.
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