Trump & Mein Kampf

I trust Mr Jacobs knew a hell of a lot more about the Holocaust and how it happened than either you or I. From the article linked below:

"For several years he worked to design a Holocaust memorial for Albania’s capital. Unveiled last month at the entrance to the Grand Park of Tirana, the simple memorial features three stone plaques — in Albanian, English and Hebrew — that highlight the stories of Albanians who saved Jews during World War II."
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"His motivation goes beyond wanting to highlight the bravery of Albanians during the war. Jacobs himself is a Holocaust survivor who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp as a child."

“For me this is not simply about designing. This is sort of a personal experience,” he said."
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"Born Stefan Jakubowicz in the Polish city of Lodz, Jacobs and his secular family would move to Piotrków — a city that became home to the Nazis’ first ghetto. The ghetto, which housed 25,000 people, was liquidated in 1942."

"Jacobs and his family — his parents, older brother, grandfather and three aunts — eventually were sent to concentration camps."
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"Miraculously, all of Jacobs’ immediate family survived the war, though his grandmother died shortly after the camps were liberated."

(He probably learned a lot about what happened from his family who survived.)

This Holocaust survivor turned architect designed a memorial honoring Albanians who saved Jews - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

 

OP, I don't think Trump got your "Don't compare yourself to Hitler" memo lol

 

You proved ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, NOTHING.

 

Yes, they are.

 

Snopes.com is a danger to our democracy! But only for this one time!

 

Hitler's Jewish solution started with concentration camps.

Do either of the candidates in this race want to set up concentration camps?

 

Hitler killed 6 million Jews and 6 million more undesirables like homosexuals, gypsies, and more. Nobody is staying Trump is Hitler's analogue equivalent. However, it begs the question, if Hitler was so bad, why is Trump quoting from Hitler's Mein Kamph?

We don't know if Hitler coined the phase, "poisoning the blood," or not. But it is accepted that Hitler added this phrase to our lexicon when he printed it in his book Mein Kamph when talking about the Jews in Germany. Now Trump comes along, and uses the exact same phrase, multiple times, when talking about undocumented immigrants coming to the US.

It's a fair question to ask about a comparison when Hitler used the phrase "poisoning the blood" about Jews, and Trump uses the exact same phrase about a different group of people. I mean, why would we want a POTUS candidate that goes around and quotes Mein Kamph?

 

I can try and help on this. There is a distinction between being Jewish, and being Israeli. Make no mistake, Trump has been the most pro-Israel president that I recall. Israelis generally LOVE him.

American Jews, particularly in the big cities like New York, generally lean Democrat. People I know in smaller towns, though, lean Republican. The majority of American Jews are proponents of civil rights, for what should be obvious reasons — World History has not been kind to Jews in terms of civil rights.

As for Trump and the claims he is antisemitic, I don’t buy them. He has Jewish family members by marriage, and by all credible accounts, he has no religious-based animosity. To the extent Trump even cares about someone other than himself, I don’t think he cares two poops about religion of any sort. I believe his deep-seated Christianity is a farce; he is no more religious than the agnostics on this Board.

That said, while I firmly believe he is not anti-Semitic (or otherwise anti-any religion), his actions while President ENABLED racism and hate to flourish. His over-indulgent need for adulation won’t let him criticize those that love him, and he is loved by racist groups, even though he is not himself part of the racist group.

 

This sums up Trump


“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

 

Correct.

The inability (or unwillingness) of Trumpers to follow this logic is revealing.

 

You answered my question. Thanks.

 

Trump is Hitler who crushed America under his jackboot.

So they banned him on Twitter and then fired him.

 

While it's a stretch to suggest that Trump will set up death camps, he will undoubtedly set up camps for undocumented immigrants including families with young children awaiting deportation that will be similar to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II, not unlike the one pictured below with the difference being that the immigrants will probably be housed in tents rather than in buildings.

 

How do people think mass deportation works if you dont set up big camps where you say, "concentrate" a large number of people to be transported?

 

I fully expect Trump to herd illegal migrants onto boxcars and send them east, then send F-15’s to strafe the boxcars like the Allies did in WWII.

 

Its funny that you have done Holocaust denial on TH in the past, except for this. "You have you question those numbers, but not the ones accidentally killed by Allied powers"

 

Holocaust Denial - the suspicion that 5,999,999 or fewer Jews died in WWII.

 

Ok, Mr. Irving

 

It was the public and judicial hounding of Irving, for deigning to question *aspects* of the *popularized narrative*, that led me to take a closer look at the subject.