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Until 1943, Padua painted some of the most famous paintings of German Nazi propaganda art.
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mathias_Padua
#propaganda #propagandaart #authoritarianism #paulPadua #radio #newmedia #1930s #wwii #pastisprologue
4. "and, in the words of Zarah Leander’s popular 1942 song “I Know There Will Be a Miracle One Day,” was supposed to come to pass one more time after Germany had begun to lose the war. The common vocabulary is remarkable.”
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
So much like Trump, never apologize, I'm the only one to fix it.
'The common vocabulary is remarkable.'
#hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump
“The conspirators were not trying to solve a serious problem, the crisis in governance or finances; they were working hard to reach an ambitious ideological goal—to destroy the republic by any means necessary. It took a long, long time, when Germany was already in ruins, for conservatives to understand that they had made a pact with the devil in 1933.”
Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche
#hitlersFirstHundredDays #peterfritzsche #books #pastisprologue #GOP #trump
Déjàvu. This all seems so–familiar, right? Like, we've done this all before. But, that can't be. Can it? It can't happen here, right?..
Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson; directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.
#history #pastisprologue #historyrepeats #richardWidmark #stanleyKramer #1960s #itcanthappenhere
If #PastIsPrologue , the weak #Debate performance of #JoeBiden will be seen as a low point in the #2024election.
But unlike during the #2020election , #JoeBiden knows that he will not have a physiological rejuvenation in the next few months. I believe that he will voluntarily withdraw before the #DemocraticConvention , having faith that Democrats will rally around the #POTUS and #VP nominees, creating *once again* unstoppable momentum.
Stay tuned to #USpol.
“In 1838, concerned that mob violence imperiled the nation’s fledgling democratic institutions, Lincoln predicted that the gravest “danger” to democracy was never going to originate overseas but “must spring up amongst us.… If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
Birchers
Matthew Dallek
“Constitutionalists were entitled to rule, and either they were going to work within the system to achieve their vision of “constitutional government,” or, if the ballot failed them, they were going to take up arms. By 1974, some members identified violence as the only solution to the ills plaguing the United States.
Birchers
Matthew Dallek
#Birchers #dallek #bookstodon #extremism #rightwing #history #pastisprologue
“If liberals were to build the world they wanted—a world where pluralism trumped hate, science trounced unreason, and democracy conquered fascism—they had to fight harder.”
#Birchers #Dallek #rightwing #rightWingExtremism #History #bookstodon #pastisprologue
“The fact is clear, you can’t talk with a Bircher,” [..] The typical Bircher “is so aggressive in defense of the card he carries that he seems to lose sight of country and human dignity. So the best way to beat him is at the polls. Every time he raises his paranoid head, we will be there after him. Sometimes we will win, sometimes we will lose. But, he will know that we are watching.” #birchers #dallek #bookstodon #rightwing #extremism #Republicans #history #pastisprologue
“Birchers’ use of conspiracy theories to tar their foes as anti-American was native to the United States, too, as was their contempt for multiracial democracy.”
#pastisprologue #birchers #Bookstodon
Wow, whack jobs: “In response to a query from a member in North Carolina, for example, the [John Birch Society] research department in Belmont explained that Franklin Roosevelt, rather than Japan, had “triggered the attack upon Pearl Harbor.”
Birchers
Matthew Dallek
#birchers #dallek #bookstodon #history #extremism #rightwing #americanHistory #conservatism #pastisprologue
Where have we heard this before, “very fine people”:
“In January 1962 Buckley and Goldwater agreed during a meeting at the Breakers in Palm Beach to visibly divorce themselves and the conservative movement from the Birch Society’s wildest conspiracy theories by casting Welch as the crackpot his critics had alleged while at the same time defending Birch members, whom Goldwater called “nice people.”
Birchers
Matthew Dallek
#birchers #dallek #extremism #rightwing #pastisprologue
Foreign Correspondent, 1940 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This has held up. A classic in the #WWII #propaganda genre. #alfredHitchcock’s 2nd film —#pastIsPrologue - unapologetically patriotic. It’s on @HBOmax #classicmovies #movieclips
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #bookstodon #wwii #history
“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.
#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologue
I am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon
“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon
“the very ruthlessness of fascism has been in proportion to the lack of opposition it has encountered.”
Lewis Mumford, Men Must Act (Harcourt, Brace, 1939) writing in response to Kristallnact, November 1938. #fascism #pastisprologue
1935: “[Franklin] Roosevelt likely believed that his re-election was more important than any particular policy he might have pursued at that moment or any statement he might have made. He believed that the very survival of democracy was at stake in 1936. He said as much publicly, and privately he commented that the election had ‘in a sense, a German parallel….Democracy is verily on trial.’”
#democracy #pastisprologue
*this makes me think of Biden in our present moment.
1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
“If you want to quiet the world, you have got to reassure the world, and the only way in which you can reassure it is to let it know that all the great fighting powers of the world are going to maintain that quiet.”
—Woodrow Wilson, September 1919
1917 - “and so, as Canada’s prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, put it, ‘the more we can get the United States to realise her great responsibilities for the peace and welfare of the world the better it will be for us and for all mankind.’”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #1917 #pastIsPrologue #americanHistory #responsibility
“As Wilson put it in the summer of 1917, “the object of the war” was to deliver the world “from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government.”
As Roosevelt put it, Americans fought Germany in order to defeat an “arch foe of international right and of ordered freedom throughout the world.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #PastIsPrologue #bookstodon #AmericanHistory #history
“At the beginning of April 1918 [President Wilson] told Americans that it was no time for diplomacy but only for unrelenting war: “Force, Force to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust!”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #PastIsPrologue
[April 2, 1917 President Wilson’s address to the Joint session of Congress] for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.” America was “privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #AmericanHistory #PastIsPrologue
April 2, 1917: The present war was a fight to protect those who desired democracy, “the German peoples included.” A “steadfast concert of peace” could be maintained only by a partnership of democratic nations.” No autocratic government “could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.” Only “free peoples” could “hold their purpose and their honour steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #pastIsPrologue
“If the world determined that Americans were a “weak, flabby, divided, and indefinite people” who could be “insulted and assaulted and abused with impunity,” then the tide of history would flow “over us and we are gone. Our country is gone. Our union is gone. Our liberty is gone.”
“Cabinet Weighs War Plans,” New York Times, March 24, 1917”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#GhostAtTheFeast #WWI #ElihuRoot #AmericanHistory #bookstodon #AmericanResolve #PastIsPrologue #Ukraine #Russia
“The unique nature of California agriculture requires that these migrants exist [..] Thus, in California we find a curious attitude toward a group that makes our agriculture successful. The migrants are needed, and they are hated.”
John Steinbeck writing in ‘The Harvest Gypsies’, for The San Francisco News, October 5, 1936
#immigration #steinbeck #johnsteinbeck #pastisprologue #thingschangeyetremainthesame