German Nazification
Phase 1
Seizure of Power
1933: January 30
Hitler is appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg
Weimar Republic President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
Chancellor even though the Nazis were only a small minority in the German
government. On his first day as chancellor, Hitler manipulated Hindenburg
into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for the new elections he had
wanted - to be held on March 5, 1933. President Hindenburg had fallen
under Hitler's spell and was signing just about anything Hitler put in
front of him. Hitler began immediately to orchestrate the complete
takeover of all mechanisms of governance and functions of state, to make
Nazi Germany a totalitarian dictatorship.
February 3, 1933
In a speech to the leading army and navy commanders, Hitler revealed
his Lebensraum program for the conquest of "living space" for the
German people, rearmament, and resistance to the Versailles Treaty. He
spoke of the importance of the military and promised not to involve it in
domestic political disputes.
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American Nazification
Phase 1
Seizure of Power
2000: November
Bush is appointed President by the Supreme Court
Bush is foisted on the American public through a coup d'etat of the
Supreme Court after massive election fraud perpetrated by his brother in
Florida.
Thousands of voters were illegally disqualified in the 2000 election
in the state of Florida, when Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State compiled
a false list of felons who would not be allowed to vote.
The Supreme Court was packed with reactionary right-wingers, several
of whom had conflicts of interest because of their ties to the Bush
family.
Dubya appoints convicted criminals, racists, and corporate-controlled
underlings to his cabinet.
January, 2001
Bush pushes his tax cuts for the wealthy through Congress, begins his
assaults on the environment, and commands the FBI to stop investigations
concerning the Bin Laden family and
other suspected terrorist cells.
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Phase 2
An Atrocity to Subdue the People
February 27, 1933
The Reichstag Fire
On the night the German Parliament Building--the Reichstag-- burned
down, Hitler was at Goebbels's apartment having dinner. They rushed to the
scene where they met Göring who was already screaming false charges and
making threats against the Communists. At first glance, Hitler described
the fire as a beacon from heaven. "You are now witnessing the beginning of
a great epoch in German history. . . This fire is the beginning,"
Hitler told a news reporter at the scene.
While not all historians agree on who actually perpetrated the
Reichstag Fire, writers such as Klaus P. Fischer feel that most likely the
Nazis were responsible.
A dazed Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe was found at the
scene and charged with arson. He was later found guilty and executed.
On February 28, 1933--the day after the Reichstag fire--President
Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler invoked Article 48 of the Weimar
Constitution, which permitted the suspension of civil liberties in a time
of national emergency.
A Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and
State abrogated the following German constitutional protections:
- Free expression of opinion
- Freedom of the press
- Right of assembly and association
- Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
- Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
- Individual property rights
- States' right of self-government
A supplemental decree created the SA (Storm Troops) and SS (Special
Security) Federal police agencies.
Additional information about the
Reichstag Fire
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Phase 2
An Atrocity to Subdue
the People
September 11, 2001
The Terrorist Attacks
When the Word Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, Bush was
listening to Florida grade school children read. When informed of the
attack by his associates, he continued listening. He then flew to a
security bunker in Nebraska before finally returning to the White House.
No military aircraft had been scrambled to intercept the four hijacked
planes, though there was plenty of time to do so.
The Bush junta's totally cynical appointment of the war criminal Henry Kissinger to create a coverup for
the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American citizens arouses additional
suspicion that the Bush administration was complicit in the horror. Under
pressure, Kissinger was forced to resign.
Hundreds of suspects were immediately jailed after 9/11, without
benefit of habeas corpus or other rights. Some of these suspects
have already been found guilty of the crime.
The Bush junta forced the Patriot Act bill through Congress,
suspending essential civil liberties, excusing oppression as essential to
the "war on terrorism," and maintaining that dissent was treason.
The Patriot Act abrogated the following American constitutional
protections:
- Free expression of opinion
- Freedom of the press
- Right of assembly and association
- Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
- Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
- Individual property rights
- States' right of self-government
Presidential decrees make it possible for military forces to be used
to monitor and control the civilian population, in abrogation of the
posse comitatus act.
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Phase 3
The Leader Destroys Elections and Appoints Himself
Dictator
March 24, 1933
The Enabling Act
On March 24, 1933, the Reichstag passed the Law for Terminating the
Suffering of People and Nation, also known as the Enabling Law,
essentially granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial power. There was no
further need for elections because the Fuhrer/Dictator made all the
decisions!
Since the Nazis had only been able to gain a 44% plurality in the
Reichstag in the March 5, 1933 elections, Hitler looked for another way to
establish a full dictatorship.
- Herman Göring--later to become the head of Germany's armed
forces--declared that there was no further need for State governments.
So over the next few weeks, in each of the legal Weimar states the local
Nazi organizations instigated riots and then summarily replaced the
elected state government by appointed Nazi Reich Commissioners to quell
the disorder.
- The Nazi legislators sponsored the Enabling Act, a bill that gave
Hitler dictatorial powers for four years. To make sure the law passed,
the Nazis imprisoned Communists and created propaganda campaigns to
influence public opinion. Just days before the vote on the bill, the
Nazis held a staged ceremony in Potsdam in which Hitler was depicted as
a conservative national leader, not the head of a radical party. Hitler
promised that the Enabling Act would only benefit the German people.
- The moment the bill passed, however, the German democratic
constitution was abrogated and Nazi Party rule became absolute. Hitler
immediately invoked the new law to rescind the democratic freedoms of
the Weimar Republic and to dissolve political parties and
organizations.
The Dictator Establishes
Death Camps
March 22, 1933
Dachau slave labor death camp established
The Hitler regime established the first concentration camp about 15
kilometers northwest of Munich, dedicated on March 20 by Heinrich Himmler.
It held about 5,000 prisoners, mostly Communists, Social-Democrats, and
homosexuals. Bavarian police guarded the prisoners until April 11, when
the SS took over. The slave-labor death camps, so hideous in their reality
that Germans didn't want to hear about them, became an efficient tool in
silencing opponents of the regime. Dachau was a "political camp" and the
first Jewish detainees were among the best-known political opponents of
the Nazi regime. More than 10,000 Jews from all over Germany were interned
there after the Kristallnacht pogrom. When the systematic genocide of Jews
began, the Jewish prisoners were deported from Dachau and other camps in
the Reich to the extermination camps in the East.
Throughout 1933 and 1934, thousands of Communists, Social Democrats
and Jews were arrested in various parts of Germany. There was no secret
about these arrests. The German people made no effort to stop Hitler's
terrorism. They allowed themselves to be brainwashed by his relentless
propaganda and regarded their Fuhrer as making heroic efforts to
re-establish order and decency.
On May 2, 1933, Hitler dissolved all the German trade unions and
within six months he had destroyed the largest and best-organized workers'
movement in the world at that time. This catastrophic defeat of the German
workers had the worst possible psychological effect because throughout
this entire time there was not even a single symbolic act of resistance.
Had there been even an attempt at resisting the Nazi's relentless
destruction of human freedoms, it would at least have allowed the workers
to feel that they had not gone down without a struggle.
Throughout 1933 and 1934, the SS, Gestapo and police, often assisted
by fire brigades and emergency services, regularly sealed off specific
German housing estates and combed through them house by house for
suspected "enemies of the state." Local SA groups carried out beatings,
arbitrary arrests and spontaneous vandalism, creating an atmosphere of
terror and helplessness in working class strongholds Germans had believed
to be safe. In this way the Nazi goons smashed any semblance of working
class solidarity. The Gestapo built up its surveillance apparatus to make
mass resistance impossible. So German people felt an ever-present sense of
terror and fear, as if they were living in a country occupied by foreign
troops.
The Nazi terror continued, unchallenged:
- June 22, 1933: the Social Democrat party, the only opposition party
to the Nazis, was banned
- July 7, 1933: the elected Social Democrats were expelled from the
government
- July 14 1933: a law was passed making sterilization compulsory for
those considered unfit
- July 15, 1933: all political parties were banned except the Nazi
party
- July 1933: concentration camps were systematized
- October 1933: the entire press was now under Nazi control
- New laws destroyed editors' and journalists’ independence and
expression of personal opinion
- The film industries were taken over one by one
- November, 1933:
- General elections were held for a single-party parliament
- The Nuremberg race laws were established
- January 20, 1934: ‘Regulation of National Labor’ broke the power of
all organized labor within German workplaces
- January 30, 1934: the local governments were dissolved without
provision for re-election; local commissioners were henceforth appointed
by Reich ministers to whom they were beholden
- February 1934: the Upper House of Parliament was dissolved
- May 5, 1934: the German Protestant Church's ‘confessing synod’ made
the ‘Barmen Theological Declaration’ against the totalitarian state;
later in 1934, the Catholic Bishop Galen of Munster preached against the
Nazi attacks on Christianity in a sermon widely disseminated
- June 30, 1934: the ‘Night of the Long Knives' -- hundreds of
"enemies of the state" were murdered in cold blood
- The massacre included several prominent non-Nazis, among them, the
leader of Catholic action and two army generals
- Among those murdered were socialist revolutionaries within the
Nazi party
- People the world over were shocked at the mass bloodshed, but no
reaction within Germany or elsewhere challenged the Nazi
terror
- August 1934: Hitler became Der Führer as well as Chancellor; a
plebiscite of the German people formally ratified his dictatorship
The German people had allowed this reign of terror to seize control of
the entire nation without any significant resistance or expression of
outrage.
The same thing can happen to any people who do not begin early to
resist the attacks on their liberties.
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Phase 3
The Leader Destroys Elections and Appoints Himself
Dictator
November, 2002
Homeland Security Act
In the 2000 and now again in the midterm 2002 elections, electronic
voting has meant that our democratic right to have our votes counted
fairly and accurately has been taken from us by the Bush junta.
Since we now suffer under the situation where there is no opposition
to the criminal Bush regime--most Democrats having effectively become
pawns of the Republicans--then none of the state election frauds will be
investigated. We can't be sure that key races such as that of Mondale in
Minnesota and Carnahan in Missouri were not the result of massive vote
fraud. We can be sure that the Florida gubernatorial race was completely
fixed.
This sinister phase 3 of the Nazification of America is best
understood by reviewing some of the information that Greg Palast has made
available. Palast is the investigative reporter for BBC and the Observer
who first exposed the 2000 Florida vote crimes.
94,000 people -- over half of them African American --were on a "scrub
list" in Florida, resulting in their being blocked from voting in the 2000
election. Did Florida rectify this mistake before the 2002 election?
Fuhgeddaboudit! Those voters won't be reinstated in Florida until January
2003--if ever.
Electronic, touch screen voting is the basis for election fraud:
- votes can easily be lost through "software glitches"
- Democratic votes can become Republican votes and no one is the wiser
The "touch" screen computers are made by ES&S, the vendor chosen
by Katherine Harris, Florida Secretary of State and current
congressperson. The lobbyist who sold that company's system to Jeb and
Katherine is Sandy Mortham, founder of Women for Jeb and Harris'
predecessor as Secretary of State. Mortham was the person who instigated
the scam in 1998 to find black voters who could be disqualified.
ES&S machines, not surprisingly, failed to work in black precincts
in 2002. And of course with electronic voting there is no paper ballot
back-up.
In the "decisive" 2002 mid-term
"elections" the Republicans gained control of all branches of government:
executive, legislative, and judicial. Just as in Hitler's Enabling Act, so
Bush Jr. forced the Homeland Security bill through Congress which gave him
complete dictatorial powers:
- the President is able to make any decision he wishes without
judicial or legislative restraint
- the executive branch can now carry on its meetings in secret,
without scrutiny from the press or the people
- the "homeland security" agents can now intrude in any part of a
citizen's life
- The Cyber
Security Enhancement Act slipped into the Homeland Security bill at
the last moment:
- allows police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping
willy-nilly with no requirement to ask a court's permission first
- demands life sentences for hackers that 'recklessly' endanger
lives
- allows Net surveillance to gather telephone numbers, IP addresses,
and URLs or e-mail information, where an 'immediate threat to a
national security interest' is suspected
- permits ISPs to hand users' records over to law enforcement
authorities, overturning current legislation that outlaws such
behavior
- the Homeland Security Information Awareness Office will be run by a
former convicted
felon
- up
to 850,000 jobs will be privatized, knocking out union and civil service
oversight
On November 14, 2002, as the Senate was being pressured to pass a
hastily-prepared homeland security bill, Senator Byrd spoke out
vehemently against the bill as Bush's grab for dictatorial power--the
worst act of tyranny, Byrd said, in the fifty years he's been in Congress.
Secret US Police Concentration Camps
In a revealing admission in June, 1997, the Director of Resource
Management for the U.S. Army confirmed the validity of a memorandum
relating to the establishment of a civilian inmate labor program under
development by the Department of the Army. The document states, "Enclosed
for your review and comment is the draft Army regulation on civilian
inmate labor utilization" and the procedure to "establish civilian prison
camps on installations."
Amid widespread rumors, Congressman Henry Gonzales clarified the
question of the existence of civilian detention camps. In an interview,
Gonzalez stated, "The truth is yes--you do have these stand by provisions,
and the plans are here . . . whereby you could, in the name of stopping
terrorism . . . evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in
detention camps."
Pierre Tristam's 11/26/02
editorial in the Daytona Beach News Journal blew the lid off
the Homeland Security Department.
"The New Deal was a 'reorganization' or an 'expansion' of government.
The creation of the Homeland Security Department is a coup within the
government. What Ollie North once did illegally in a White House basement
- free-lancing policy with public money and accountability to no one - a
$37 billion department with 170,000 employees will now do legally in what
is sure to be a high-rise of basements and metaphorical windows on
Washington's Bureaucracy Row. Like a Wall Street firm beholden only to its
board room, the second-largest government department is now a proprietary
arm of the presidency. It operates beyond congressional scrutiny and
public accountability, and guarantees secrecy to its own machinations or
to those of any private business with which it deals.
"Let's say Kafka Inc. were a company that made surveillance cameras the
government was installing at a few thousand intersections. Kafka's
products happen to be pathetically faulty, as such devices commonly are.
The public would be outraged if it knew. But all Kafka would have to do to
keep its products' evaluations from becoming public is submit them to the
Department of Homeland Security, where everything is to be kept secret by
law. What Kafka does, every other company or hospital or airline or even
local sheriff's department can do with any proposal, any budget item, any
safety plan made part of the homeland security racket. The department, in
other words, is a black hole to the Freedom of Information Act -
everything goes in, nothing gets out."
On Sunday, November 10th, the New York Times announced that
200,000 to 250,000 troops would be used to attack Iraq, while 265,000
National Guard and Reserve personnel would be called to active duty--MOST
OF WHICH WILL BE DEPLOYED IN THE UNITED STATES! Is Bush at war with Iraq
or with American citizens?
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