Anne Frank famously kept a diary describing her life as a Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She and her family lived in a concealed room behind a bookcase for two years.
The Nazis eventually discovered the family and sent them to concentration camps including Auschwitz. She died in Bergen-Belsen at age 15.
Anne’s father, Otto, was the only one of the family to survive the Holocaust. He was instrumental in publishing his daughter’s diary after the war.
The rest is history.
Key to Anne’s survival for those two years were the efforts of Otto’s secretary, a Catholic woman named Miep Gies. She risked imprisonment and even death in buying food for the family and secretly bringing it to their hiding place.
Gies devised elaborate ruses, such as obtaining illicit food ration cards, avoiding large purchases from any single grocer, and bringing the food to the hiding place at hours that would not attract suspicion.
After the war, Gies was dismissive of the personal risk to herself: “Over two million Holland people helped hide Jewish people in the Second World War, I am just doing what I can to help.”
Now, 80 years later, history reverberates in the Netherlands. Nazis of the 21st century are openly chasing and beating the Jews on the streets of Amsterdam.
Lacking the courage of Miep Gies, the police response is unenergetic, and the governmental response is lackadaisical.
“Shame on them” does not even begin to reflect my sentiments.
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Ever notice how the “police,” whether in countries like the Netherlands, or even here in America, just pretty much turn a blind eye and “see nothing” when so many of these anti-Semitic crimes occur, or when mobs of Antifa and BLM fascists loot and smash the windows of businesses and stores?!? Isn’t this reminiscent of Kristallnacht in 1930s era Germany? I think so.
Too many cops seem to be saying “I see nothing … I see nothing” when these anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist crimes occur, much like the dim-witted Nazi guard Sgt. Schultz in the beloved WWII themed classic sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes.”
See: https://youtu.be/34ag4nkSh7Q?si=Aua-AOnDU5Tiyqcd
Fascism, a definitive leftwing political ideology that stresses an all powerful centralized government, that is both anti-capitalist and anti-religion, and features the throttling of individual rights, free speech, gun ownership, and private property rights, is at the heart of the current progressive and leftwing political movements.
Reference: https://worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm
They just dare not call it fascism, because that is still a dirty word that ranks down there with pedophilia and cannibalism. 🧟♂️
But, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck … it’s a duck! 🦆
The far leftists and progressives within the leftwing of the Democrat Party are all quacked up. 🦆🦆🦆
G’day … and savor the political victory and schadenfreude as the left cannibalizes itself. 😏
That is a sad, but salient point: We now have entire government and academic institutions that have devolved into a cadre of Sgt. Schultzes. None dare act against transparent antisemitism, fascism, and racism all for fear that someone else in their cohort might accuse them of racism. Their tolerance and abject denialism is a defacto endorsement. What gets me is that many of those in these institutions were the loudest in proclaiming “Never again”. And yet, we seem to be on the cusp of “again”, again.
Open borders will change ones culture – for the absolute worst outcome