In this eye-opening video, a German shares an important message with Americans amid rising tensions in the US. TikTok user Mindfullmess.mom draws a comparison between what happened to her great-grandparents in 1930s Germany and what is happening with ICE in the US today. She reflects on how people allowed a dictator to sell them a dream, only for it to collapse, and relates it to what Trump and the Republicans are doing now. Her warning is that future generations will look back at this time and wonder why people didn’t see what was coming.
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Top Comments
@RodericCeorlred
Those who called Barack Obama a dictator ten years ago have now joined ICE.
1030 likes
@pjhgerlach
As a Dutchman I would like to say: "Nie wieder ist jetzt."
784 likes
@rutos7
America is sleeping because they don't know history well enough and can't defend itself because of hate and racism. This is very dangerous
215 likes
@chriswerth918
As a German myself I can only say one thing about this...she is absolutley right.
1616 likes
@Bazi-Tibull
Austrian here:
I can absolutely confirm what she said. Several people of my family who had been young adults during Hitler's rise are still alive today and as a very history-focused person I've talked a lot about this topic with them in my 34 years on this earth.
The situation back then was bad. People couldn't afford shit, job opportunities were scarce and in the case of Austria a civil war was going on. In other words: our people were poor and divided. Then came Hitler and he told the public that their situation was a result of a bunch of things, like a) they were being treated unfairly by outside forces (Trump says the same about trade with the EU), b) that their former officials were selling them out (Trump says the same about Democrats), c) that people he called "Volksschädlinge" (peoples' pests) were damaging their livelyhood (Trump says the same about foreigners), d) that only he has the willpower and ability to fix all of that (Trump says the same about himself) and last but not least, e) that people resisting his methods are traitors and corrupt agents of foreign powers (Trump says the same about pretty much everyone who doesn't agree with him).
People back then were so desperate that they wanted to believe him, because what he said gave them hope that things would get better again finally. There was no internet and no social media during this time of course, so the only way to influence the public opinion was through the media, like newspapers and radio stations. Those were amongst the first things Hitler brought under his control by taking over parts of it and defaming every other outlet which tried to resist (Trump has created Truth Social as a response to getting punished for spreading lies on other platforms, which he has defamed as "fake news" ever since).
When they had the "influencers" of their time in their hands, the Nazis began to fabricate stories which supported their claims (just look at what the Trump administration says about Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsom and other political enemies of theirs). Jewish businessmen got arrested for fraud left and right, while Hitler's henchmen told their neighbours and customers that they'd have been charging them an unlawful amount of money all these years. Those henchmen were guys dressed in uniforms, who often enjoyed a higher form of education, so people believed them and they felt grateful that finally somebody took care of their well-being (this rhetoric of ending the unfair treatment is currently very popular, especially with people who have no education in terms of economy whatsoever).
Later on, people were told that those "pests" lived a fraudulent lifestyle only because they weren't used to hard work, so they built camps in order to "resocialize" them. What they told the public was that they would force those "parasites" to do hard work until they were used to it and could be released into the public again, where they would finally be willing to earn their bread the honest way like everybody else had to. People actually liked that form of punishment for the people they believed had treated them so unfairly, but what was really going on in there was kept a close secret. My great-grandmother's second husband was stationed as an officer in the concentration camp of Mauthausen. She was never allowed to ask him about his work, and she didn't believe the rumors until the day the Americans picked her up and forced her amongst many other locals to clean up the mess in that camp.
Meanwhile, Hitler came up with all kinds of reasons that awarded him the support of the public when it came to forcefully annexing other countries, the most important one being that he would welcome Germans from foreign nations home so he could protect them and their belongings as well (Trump says that taking over Venezuela, Colombia, Greenland, Kuba, Panama and Iceland is important for the US' national security).
When people tried to resist his rise to power, Hitler founded all kinds of groups made up from the losers of society that helped him taking out potential enemies by force. To disguise their real purpose, Hitler told the public that they were there in order to protect them from the afore mentioned "pests" and root out their supporters (Trump does exactly the same with ICE).
This went on for years and when people finally started to draw conclusions and didn't feel so comfortable under the Nazis anymore, it was already too late. Just three years after my ancestors had cheered for Hitler, three of my four great-grandfathers lied dead somewhere on a god-forsaken field thousands of miles away from home after getting forcefully drafted into the military and my then 12 year old grandfather was operating an AA-gun alongside a 17 year old gunner and two other boys who were even younger then he himself was. When the Americans came with hundreds of airplane bombers and a full tank division, Berlin ordered them to "fight until the last drop of blood". Three of them had rifles, the youngest of them, 10 years old at that time, recieved nothing but an axe for that task due to a lack of firearms.
I wish nothing more than to spare the American people from suffering the same fate, but sadly there's not much we as outsiders can do right now. It's the American people themselves who have to defend their country from Trump before it is too late. Good luck, friends. I wish you all the best.
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@yournanna866
So many people forget that one of the first countries the Nazis’ invaded was their own.
475 likes
@daves4026
America has spent multiple decades putting its people to sleep with poor education. How will they wake up now
753 likes
@Rachel_M_
You can't comply your way out of tyranny.
179 likes
@ksinfl
German living in the US. I also asked my grandparents about why nobody stopped the monster. Now here I am. I trained for this moment my entire life to recognize fascism. I can only say that people are completely underreacting.
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@carolmarsh5561
Don't forget Stephen Miller is behind a lot with what is going on,especially project 2025 and is a complete nutter racist.
771 likes
@Human_Herbivore
From Russians in the time of Stalin, to Cambodians under Pol Pot, to Germans under Hitler, to Americans under Trump, history repeats, repeats and repeats. 😢
376 likes
@ralphromero2063
On the fast track, we’re full on 1939 mode now.
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@User-x9v2w
A Wonderful Speech
Wake up America We cannot allow History to repeat itself !
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@DW-indeed
Metaphorically, the frog is nearly boiling
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@ThePmloc
Freedom isn't free. We must demand it, and fight for it, in every way that we can.