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There are no #libertarians in a bank run. No sooner had VCs whipped each other into a terrified Twitter frenzy at the collapse of #SVB - a collapse caused by that frenzy - than the #AynRand-poisoned elites started begging for Uncle Sucker for handouts:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Now, on the one hand, it's easy to dismiss these guys as very, very, very stupid. After all, they played a game of #PrisonersDilemma in which they were allowed to talk to each other as much as they wanted - and they still sold each other out:
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Yesterday marked the 84th anniversary of #Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when Germans began a Nazi pogrom — burning synagogues, destroying shops, and murdering Jews.
Today, we remember that our safety lies in solidarity with each other.
nytimes.com/2022/11/10/wor…
Today, we remember that our safety lies in solidarity with each other.
nytimes.com/2022/11/10/wor…
Kristallnacht is often thought of as the beginning of the Holocaust, a moment of state-sanctioned extreme violence leading to systematic genocide.
But the attacks on Jews began with a decade of dehumanization: restrictions on travel, bans from public venues, public hate speech.
But the attacks on Jews began with a decade of dehumanization: restrictions on travel, bans from public venues, public hate speech.
Today, as antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and white nationalism persist in our country and in the halls of power, we remember Kristallnacht.
We commit to rejecting antisemitism and bigotry in all forms.
We must keeping fighting for all of us to be free, safe, and thriving.
We commit to rejecting antisemitism and bigotry in all forms.
We must keeping fighting for all of us to be free, safe, and thriving.
Hoy se cumplen 84 años de la "Noche de los Cristales Rotos", uno de los mayores progroms de la historia, llevado a cabo en 1938 x el Partido nazi, miembros de las SA y la Juventud Hitleriana en Alemania, Austria, y las áreas de Checoslovaquia ocupadas x Alemania.
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#Kristallnacht
#Kristallnacht debe su nombre a los fragmentos de vidrios rotos que cubrían las calles después del pogrom -- vidrios rotos de las ventanas de sinagogas, casas, y negocios judíos saqueados y destrozados durante los ataques.
Los nazis y sus adeptos quemaron 267 sinagogas y saquearon y destrozaron aproximadamente 7.500 establecimientos comerciales de propiedad judía. Los cementerios judíos también fueron profanados.
Walter Kammerling, Vienna, 10/11/38:
"Father was in bed; his first severe attack of angina. Somebody came to the door to arrest him & took my sisters too. I was in the other room. We didn’t know what it was. The famous #NovemberPogrom. The Nazis called it #Kristallnacht…"
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"Father was in bed; his first severe attack of angina. Somebody came to the door to arrest him & took my sisters too. I was in the other room. We didn’t know what it was. The famous #NovemberPogrom. The Nazis called it #Kristallnacht…"
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"This is an expression I don’t particularly like to use because it has romantic connotations & it was absolutely not romantic by any stretch of the imagination. It was very nasty. Later I saw through the curtain, just across the yard, there had been a large Jewish flat…"
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"…which had been taken away by the Nazis in the very early days. They put a local party organisation there. And Erika & Ruthi, my sisters, were scrubbing the floors there. I saw that through the window. Many years later I asked Erika 'What happened when they took you?'…"
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Eve Gill, Vienna, Nov 9, 1938:
"As I was walking down the road I met the young SS officer who'd taken over our store. He advised me not to go home. He wasn't too bad a guy actually. I asked him why & he just said, 'Well—just don't go home'. And... I did go home of course…"
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"As I was walking down the road I met the young SS officer who'd taken over our store. He advised me not to go home. He wasn't too bad a guy actually. I asked him why & he just said, 'Well—just don't go home'. And... I did go home of course…"
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"The door was open. There was this… officer in uniform. He took mother & me to the local synagogue. As you probably know on #Kristallnacht, famous Kristallnacht, they smashed up synagogues, set them on fire. There was one synagogue in the centre of Vienna they left untouched…"
"It was in the middle of some very precious buildings. They smashed it up on the inside to a degree. All the women & children from our district were there. This wonderful man with his uniform had a gun in his hand & he walked around & ordered people to sit & stand, face a wall…"
Isca Wittenberg's father Georg Salzberger was a Frankfurt rabbi:
"#Kristallnacht. We had a Jewish youth centre next to us. Huge glass windows. That was all smashed up. My parents weren't at home. We 3 girls were next door when this youth home was completely smashed up…"
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"#Kristallnacht. We had a Jewish youth centre next to us. Huge glass windows. That was all smashed up. My parents weren't at home. We 3 girls were next door when this youth home was completely smashed up…"
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"We were sitting pretty anxiously at on our own at home while this was going on. My middle sister, the calm one, said, ‘Let us knit or crochet or do things while this is going on.’ To try to calm us down until our parents came back again. But these were really terrible times…"
"In the night the synagogues were put on fire. No one came to put them out. People just stood around & watched. No police, no interference whatsoever. Then my father was taken to Dachau. He tried to hide but the SS tried to hunt where he was. They came day & night…"
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Gertrude Black, Munich:
"On the #Kristallnacht, the 9th November, my husband disappeared. I phoned my mother-in-law & said my husband hadn’t come home. She got very agitated & said he must have been taken away. He looked very Jewish. There he is, very Jewish, you can see…"
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"On the #Kristallnacht, the 9th November, my husband disappeared. I phoned my mother-in-law & said my husband hadn’t come home. She got very agitated & said he must have been taken away. He looked very Jewish. There he is, very Jewish, you can see…"
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"They interned him in Dachau. I sat there with a child, really beside myself, nothing I could do. I was still breastfeeding & I was very terrible, alone with the baby. My parents-in-law sent my nephew; he was 13. You know it’s very eerie for a young woman, alone with a baby…"
"Nearly every shop in Munich had a poster ‘we will not serve Jews here.’ But neighbours would offer to shop for you & offer money. A whole lot of very decent Germans helped us. So I don’t have this terrible hatred like some do. There were very very kind people…"
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Thread - #Kristallnacht On 9/10th November in 1938, nationwide pogroms resulted in the murder of perhaps hundreds of Jews in Germany, by Nazi goons. Countless others were injured. Nearly 300 synagogues were destroyed. Over 7000 Jewish shops & other property were looted.
Around 30 000 male Jews were arrested & put in concentration camps. Nazi terror was "revenge" for the killing of an official at the German Embassy in Paris, by a a young Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan. His parents were among many expelled from Germany & refused entry to Poland
Nazi myths of a world wide Jewish conspiracy fed into Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). Legislation after Kristallnacht forced Jews out of the economy & onto the fringes of society. Nearly 80 000 Jews were driven to leave Germany in 1939, compared to about 40 000 in 1938.
Of #Kristallnacht and #MIGRATION: a🧵
My dad asked to be buried with his passport.
This was the one wish he expressed after his cancer diagnosis in May. We honored it when we buried him at the end of September.
Passport in his inner jacket pocket.
Strange, no?
Let me explain.
My dad asked to be buried with his passport.
This was the one wish he expressed after his cancer diagnosis in May. We honored it when we buried him at the end of September.
Passport in his inner jacket pocket.
Strange, no?
Let me explain.
In the summer of 1938, my grandparents took my dad & aunt from their home in Frankfurt to Switzerland on vacation.
That should have been impossible. Jews had been issued passports stamped with a big red “J” (for “Jude,” or “Jew”). They couldn’t just waltz out of the country.
That should have been impossible. Jews had been issued passports stamped with a big red “J” (for “Jude,” or “Jew”). They couldn’t just waltz out of the country.
Due to some administrative snafu, my grandparents’ passports hadn’t gotten the “J” stamp yet. So they could travel to Switzerland unimpeded. They spent a few weeks vacationing in the gorgeous alpine village of @Adelboden_ch.
Wat de relatie is tussen spelende Joodse kinderen op een begraafplaats, het bewust breken van je heup en een fundamentele angst voor dichtslaande autodeuren... dat tonen dagboeken uit het Derde Rijk aan. #Holocaustresearch #wecom #phd #UAntwerpen #VUB #fwo #thesisthread (1/20)
#AnneFrank leerde de wereld met haar dagboek hoe het is om verdoken te leven. Hoe het leven in Duitse steden veranderde toen Hitler de macht greep op 1 januari 1933 en of er voor Joden nog veilige oorden waren, ook dat leren dagboeken uit 1933-1945. #Holocaustdiary (2/20)
Een blik op het leven in de stad is vernieuwend in Holocaust-onderzoek. Uit ethische verantwoordelijkheid werd lang gefocust op het leven in getto’s en concentratiekampen: massamoord vond hier plaats. Toch waren stedelijke veranderingen belangrijke stappen in dit proces. (3/20)
(sg) Es ist wichtig, dass wir uns erinnern und dazulernen. Durch die folgenden Bilder / Texte der @BS_AnneFrank erfahrt ihr, warum es Sinn macht, die Gewalttaten vom 09.11.1938 nicht als #Kristallnacht zu benennen. !B
... #IchBinHier #Pogromnacht
... #IchBinHier #Pogromnacht
(sg) Warum wir den Begriff #Reichskristallnacht durch #Pogromnacht ersetzen sollten. (Text 1, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank) !B
#IchBinHier
#IchBinHier
(sg) Warum wir den Begriff #Reichskristallnacht durch #Pogromnacht ersetzen sollten. (Text 2, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank) !B
#IchBinHier
#IchBinHier
82 years ago #OnThisDay the #Kristallnacht pogrom took place. Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops throughout the night of the 9-10 November.
Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions were attacked and destroyed. SA and Hitler Youth members shattered the shop windows of an estimated 7,500 Jewish-owned commercial establishments and looted them. Cemeteries became a particular object of desecration in many regions.
The pogrom was especially destructive in Berlin and Vienna, the two largest Jewish communities in these areas.
#OnThisDay (1938), we mark 82 years since #Kristallnacht, when Nazis (and their enablers) across Germany & Austria razed synagogues, smashed windows and murdered almost 100 Jews in a violent pogrom - known as ’Night of Broken Glass'.
My #THREAD with some thoughts & lessons:
My #THREAD with some thoughts & lessons:
1. Kristallnacht, was a murderous example of the capacity of humans to escalate from harassment, indifference, demonization and singling out of Jews - to violence.
First by words and through dehumanization, and then through the Nazi infrastructure of death.
First by words and through dehumanization, and then through the Nazi infrastructure of death.
2. In the weeks that followed #Kristallnacht, approximately 30,000 Jews were transported to concentration camps — a sorrow foreshadowing of the further evil that would soon ensue.
#Thread on visit to #Muzaffarnagar, UP with @harsh_mander @natashabadhwar @JohnDayal @Sandeep_Saurav_ & many others.
In short: @UPPolice, PAC, RAF are the "rioters" - दंगाई - here, targeting & trashing Muslim homes (see video). Will try & post videos/pics as Internet allows
In short: @UPPolice, PAC, RAF are the "rioters" - दंगाई - here, targeting & trashing Muslim homes (see video). Will try & post videos/pics as Internet allows
RAF was also involved in this destruction of Muslim homes singled out for being prosperous. One left his blue cap behind. Police, PAC, RAF doing this said, "Muslims will be thrown out of India, don't damage the floor or walls, after all, all this will one day belong to us"
Look at these images. Not a single plate or cup or shelf has been left whole. Each & every thing has been broken, under pretext of a "flag march" by PAC, RAF, police. In this home, there was only a woman with 3 children at night when the forces stormed in & trashed it.
🇧🇷Hace unos días @Corinthians de #Brasil homenajeó con una estrella en su camiseta a las víctimas del #holocausto, al cumplirse 81 años de la Noche de los Cristales Rotos, hecho que marcó el inicio de la persecución nazi sobre el Pueblo Judío.
#UnaEstrellaParaNoOlvidar⭐
#UnaEstrellaParaNoOlvidar⭐
La noche de los Cristales Rotos sucedió entre el 9 y el 10 noviembre de 1938, cuando los grupos paramilitares nazis dañaron comercios y viviendas judías, quemaron 200 sinagogas y asesinaron a 91 judíos.
#NuncaMás #Kristallnacht #UnaEstrellaParaNoOlvidar
#NuncaMás #Kristallnacht #UnaEstrellaParaNoOlvidar
Además de la camiseta, actualmente hay una exposición en el Arena Corinthians, por este nuevo aniversario de La Noche de los Cristales Rotos.
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#Kristallnacht
Many people say it's ridiculous to compare our current troubles with the Nazis and the Final Solution.
Imagine.
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Imagine.
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Imagine someone saying the torture of little girls and boys is necessary to nat'l security.
And people being, for the most part, okay with that.
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And people being, for the most part, okay with that.
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"If parents didn't want their kids locked up without food, water, soap, or bathroom breaks, they shouldn't have brought them here."
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THREAD: Today is the 81st anniversary of #Kristallnacht. Many Americans assume that such events, as well as the broader scope of the Holocaust, was unknown in the United States.
Not so. Here's a sampling of how Kristallnacht was reported in newspapers in #Missouri alone.
Not so. Here's a sampling of how Kristallnacht was reported in newspapers in #Missouri alone.
#Kristallnacht in the St. Louis Star-Times.
#Kristallnacht in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
9-10 November 1938 | #Kristallnacht – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Almost 100 killed, 30,000 men arrested, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristalln…
The name Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night") comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed.
In an article on the evening of 11 November, Joseph Goebbels ascribed the events to the "healthy instincts" of the German people: "The German people are anti-Semitic. It has no desire to have its rights restricted or to be provoked in the future by parasites of the Jewish race."
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I had to read this article twice to try to understand Netanyahu's message here.
Netanyahu is letting his hatred of Palestinians cloud his knowledge of history. The alleged meeting with the Mufti didn't take place until November 1941.
1/ haaretz.com/amp/israel-new…
I had to read this article twice to try to understand Netanyahu's message here.
Netanyahu is letting his hatred of Palestinians cloud his knowledge of history. The alleged meeting with the Mufti didn't take place until November 1941.
1/ haaretz.com/amp/israel-new…
Dachau concentration camp opened in 1933.
By 1935 there were already more than 100k Jews in concentration camps at Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenberg and Ebensee.
This assertion by Netanyahu defies all well-established and documented Holocaust history.
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By 1935 there were already more than 100k Jews in concentration camps at Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenberg and Ebensee.
This assertion by Netanyahu defies all well-established and documented Holocaust history.
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Netanyahu is effectively absolving Hitler---the 2nd worst mass murderer in recorded history after Stalin--of the extermination of 6 million Jews & 10 million other "undesirables" from the disabled to gays. But The Final Solution was established specifcally to EXTERMINATE Jews.
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#kristallnacht80 The first film about the Holocaust was directed by my great-uncle Adolf Minkin. "Professor Mamlock" (1938) ran in the USA where it opened two days before the #Kristallnacht. Its history is remarkable.
Made in Russia, "Professor Mamlock" ran with huge success in the USSR until it was banned for a period between August 1939 and through June 23, 1941 because Stalin signed a pact with Hitler. Molotov--Ribbentrop pact. (Molotov, Ribbentrop, Hitler 👇)
Read about Molotov--Ribbentrop pact, Molotov's grandson serving Putin now, and flipping the narratives of Stalin--Hitler pact by Putin here: medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…
My dad’s first memory is hiding under a table 80 years ago tonight, when Nazis took his dad to Dachau on #Kristallnacht.
His parents, my Omi and Opi, always considered themselves more German than Jewish, so they didn’t think they’d get swept up in the madness.
Opi was taken to city hall with other Jews and lined up against a wall. He thought he was going to be shot.
Tonight we commemorate the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass”.
That night, 9 November 1938, Nazi fury broke out against Jews throughout Germany and Austria — 92 were killed; 30,000 were seized and sent to concentration camps; 7,500 Jewish businesses were set on fire and destroyed.
It was the most ominous sign of what was to come.
It was the most ominous sign of what was to come.
But it had another dimension no less terrifying: 267 synagogues were burnt. Thousands of Torah scrolls, Judaism’s most sacred objects, were desecrated and thrown into the flames. Suddenly it became clear that the Nazis were intent not only on killing Jews.
😡 😡 😡 My latest: thread+article on #SebastianGorka's talk in a former synagogue close to #TreeofLifeSynogogue in Pittsburgh, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht.👇👇👇Confirmed ties to white supremacists and neo-Nazis.medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…
Sebastian Gorka, a Hungarian-American political analyst, is a former Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump and a former editor of the Breitbart News.
2. Four Democratic senators accused Gorka of failing to note on his U.S. citizenship application that he had belonged to a neo-Nazi organization in Hungary. The omission, if proved, would have implications for his US citizenship received in 2012.
THREAD: My career has been spent studying Christianity and the rise of Nazism, specifically, the massive moral failure of a religion in the face of political nihilism to recognize it and fight back. In early 30's Hitler promised Germany he would take care of the communists /1
and other "degenerates" who threatened Christian civilization. He made the religious appeal knowing Germans would instinctively protect a religion that legitimated and justified anti-Semitism and cultural power, even though he had no real commitment to Christianity. /2
Millions embraced this message, even though it was cloaked in code about who the "enemy" really was. After gaining political power by subverting the law and creating a crisis with the Reichstag fire, Hitler passed legislation to stop dissent and /3
