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In reply to the discussion: MAGA's Violent Threats Spike as Little Girls Threatened With Rape [View all]Cirsium
(1,176 posts)39. It doesn't matter
They don't need to know what they are saying to be dangerous. Interesting how Black youth are seen as such a threat, while little white Nazis are just boys who don't know what they're saying.
Kristallnacht, literally, "Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938. This wave of violence took place throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.
The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilung: commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.
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Violence began to erupt in various parts of the Reich throughout the late evening and early morning hours of November 910. At 1:20 a.m. on November 10, Reinhard Heydrich, in his capacity as head of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) sent an urgent telegram to headquarters and stations of the State Police and to SA leaders in their various districts, which contained directives regarding the riots. SA and Hitler Youth units throughout Germany and its annexed territories engaged in the destruction of Jewish-owned homes and businesses. Members of many units wore civilian clothes to support the fiction that the disturbances were expressions of 'outraged public reaction.'
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilung: commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.
...
Violence began to erupt in various parts of the Reich throughout the late evening and early morning hours of November 910. At 1:20 a.m. on November 10, Reinhard Heydrich, in his capacity as head of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) sent an urgent telegram to headquarters and stations of the State Police and to SA leaders in their various districts, which contained directives regarding the riots. SA and Hitler Youth units throughout Germany and its annexed territories engaged in the destruction of Jewish-owned homes and businesses. Members of many units wore civilian clothes to support the fiction that the disturbances were expressions of 'outraged public reaction.'
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
While the image of millions of German boys being taught how to be good fascists is totally terrifying, it's easy to assume that the Hitler Youth were largely harmless. They were, after all, just a bunch of kids in ersatz Boy Scout uniforms, marching around play-acting at being Nazis, right? As reported by The History Place, not so much. In fact, the jolly kids in the Hitler Youth participated in violence against Jews and other minorities in Germany. On Nov. 9, 1938, when Nazis carried out the infamous anti-Jewish pogrom known as Kristallnacht, the Hitler Youth were voluntary participants in the violence and vandalism. No one had actually ordered the kids to take part they did so totally on their own.
As Time notes, that wasn't an isolated incident. Hitler Youth members are known to have aided in many of the horrifying acts carried out against Jews. In one incident in Vienna, Hitler Youth forced Jewish people to clean the streets with their toothbrushes, and they participated in raids on synagogues in which holy relics were destroyed. The kids were definitely not all right.
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/346714/the-untold-truth-of-the-hitler-youth/
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/346714/the-untold-truth-of-the-hitler-youth/
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My daughter got harassed as a young child and she became a third degree blackbelt.
Irish_Dem
Nov 9
#8
I think she does have mace. We'll have to look into the self-defense classes
Clouds Passing
Nov 9
#59
Yup. I posted "Her body. Your choice. Her GUN" all over Twitter yesterday, lol
Jack Valentino
Nov 9
#53
Irony - the same people screaming about how to explain Clinton's Blowjob to their kids...
haele
Nov 9
#23