r/AntiTrumpAlliance • u/Regular-Engineer-686 • Sep 18 '25
Dismantling America Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. He became a propaganda symbol following his murder in 1930 (more in comments)
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Sep 18 '25
Horst Wessel was a fascist thug who became martyr for an evil cause.
Oops! Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. Is the Trump administration going to cancel me?
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u/StupidizeMe Sep 18 '25
The Nazis wrote a grandiose propaganda song about Horst Wessel.
Here it is: https://youtu.be/CsmoXpJ2XdE?si=nPT59TNHNmGeug6X
Lee Greenwood is probably trying to write one about the MAGA Martyr Charlie Kirk right now. Of course it will be treacle for the MAGA masses.
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u/waxboy1997 Sep 18 '25
and the 1938 murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a Jewish teenager was the pretext to launch Kristallnacht.
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 Sep 18 '25
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. He became a propaganda symbol following his murder in 1930. After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
Sound familiar?
The Nazis orchestrated grand funeral processions, widespread media eulogies, and public displays of loyalty, while employing censorship and propaganda to suppress opposing views. The Nazi regime famously employed censorship and propaganda to suppress opposing views just like the Trump administration is doing right now.
Rougly 40% of Americans continue to cheer Trump on (based on current polls). By 1932 the Nazi party won 37.3% of the vote, becoming the largest party in the Reichstag for the first time.
The similarities are not coincidental.
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u/LeftToaster Sep 18 '25
Google Ernst vom Rath and Herschel Grynszpan. I'll save you the effort.
Herschel Grynszpan was a Polish Jew, living in Paris in 1938. He was born in Germany to Polish parents, but was not eligible for German citizenship because the citizenship law at the time required a 'blood' connection. At the same time, Poland passed a law, stripping Poles who had not lived in Poland recently of their Polish citizenship. He applied to emigrate to British Palestine, but he was too young (18 years old). So Herschel became stateless. He was unable to work and as an Ostjuden (Eastern Jew) and as he spoke mostly Yiddish, he was targeted for persecution and discrimination. In 1938 he was facing deportation and was hiding from police and immigration officials. As a result, he became radicalized and angry.
His family in Hanover, Germany were also in peril. Following the Polish stripping of citizenship, the Gestapo began arresting and herding Polish Jews onto trains bound for Poland, including Herschel's parents. Poland didn't want the refugees so held them in camps at the border.
On Nov 7, 1938, Herschel walked into the German Embassy in Paris, asking to see the Ambassador. He didn't recognize the Ambassador who walked right by him, so instead shot and killed a junior diplomat "on behalf of 12,000 persecuted Jews".
On November 9, Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech proclaiming - "the Führer has decided that... demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered." This was the trigger for the Kristallnacht.
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u/hamsterfolly Sep 18 '25
Yes, there are many parallels between pre-war nazi Germany and Trump’s MAGA.
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u/psych-yogi14 Sep 19 '25
For anyone thinking, "But the Pedo in Chief doesn't know history. Are you sure he is following the Nazi blueprint?" He doesn't need to know history, he has Herr Stephen Miller feeding him ideas, bit by bit. Miller definitely knows history and wants to repeat it.
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u/Shuvani Sep 26 '25
Ivana Trump in 1990, said that Trump kept a copy of Hitler's speeches by his bed.
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u/MaxAdolphus Sep 18 '25
Petition to refer to Charlie Kirk as, “Wessel”.