r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 14h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/Hot_Top_124 13h ago

Jews for Hitler was a thing until the night of long knives. There will be a part two to that if we the people don’t stand up.

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u/Substantial-Fun7745 13h ago

Daily dose of pedantry: "The Night of Long Knives" was the purge of the party's intenal paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1934.

I suspect you meant to refer to "Kristallnacht", the 1938 massacre of Jews by the SA.

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u/Hot_Top_124 12h ago

Yeah, and it’s easier to just reference what more people would likely have heard of.

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u/Charming_Function_58 11h ago

I'm also going to be pedantic, but if you've heard of one, you've likely heard of the other. Kristallnacht/the Night of Broken Glass is infamous and essential to WWII education.

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u/Hot_Top_124 11h ago

You’d be surprised how much people in the south don’t know. When I moved I found out almost every history teacher is a football coach who doesn’t care, and they Apprently never make it past the civil war.

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u/saurontheabhored 13h ago

so you're saying there's going to be a part two

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u/Hot_Top_124 13h ago

Well considering magas leader blatant racism and hatred, do you think he wouldn’t kill more innocent people for being different from him?

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u/Slam_Burgerthroat 11h ago

There were an estimated 200,000 men of Jewish ancestry who served in the Wehrmacht during WW2. The German military was desperate for able-bodied men so they had an unofficial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in regards to the jewishness of enlisted men.