HISTORY Part IV: Historical Lessons on crime, antisemitism, and justice against ambitious leaders and people with extreme ideology in 1934
AGN Life: Part IV
December 3, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – This is Part IV of our Historic Lessons series. History can be defined as the study and documentation of the past. This history is a record of past events in 1934.
History is a record of inventions. History is a record of people and their accomplishments, of governments and their successes and failures. History offers us a window into the future.
“History” is an umbrella term comprising facts of past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of past events
1934 Historical politically-inspired events
September 1931, an elected Nazi party leader named Theodor Habicht (1898-1944) was sent to Austria to oversee the reorganization of the Austrian Nazi Party. The Nazi party increased its membership as a result of his efforts.
Habicht was deported in March 1933 after the Austrian government finally decided to ban the Nazi Party outright. In response, Habicht set up a leadership-in-exile in Munich which directed a campaign of terror against the Dollfuss regime.
The murder of Fascist dictator
On February 1, 1934, the Prime Minister of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss banned all political parties except his. He was now on Hitler’s “hit list” of those who needed to be eliminated because of the ban.
On April 30, 1934, Austria got a new “Austrian fascist” constitution under the direction of Fascist leader Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who served as Chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
By July 1934, the Prime Minister of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss was targeted by loyal Nazis in a coup to remove him from power. This failed coup attempt resulted in the murder of Dollfuss on July 25, 1934 under the command of Austrian SS leader Fridolin Glass.
Hitler’s war against German justice
On May 2, 1934, Nazi Germany begins the People’s Court. The court was established by order of Reich Chancellor dictator Adolf Hitler, in response to his dissatisfaction at the outcome of the Reichstag fire (burning of the state legislature building) trial in front of the Reich Court of Justice (Reichsgericht).
Hitler was unhappy because all but one of the defendants were acquitted of setting the Reichstag fire.
The People’s Court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of “political offenses”, which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism, destruction of state property, and treason against Nazi Germany.
Hitler supporters murdered opponents
On June 26, 1934, Germany and Poland sign a non-aggression treaty. This was suppose to create a respect for national boundaries. In Hitler’s mind there would be no boundary. He later invaded Poland and murdered Polish citizens and destroyed cities.
On June 28, 1934, Adolf Hitler flew to Essen, Germany for the “Night of Long Knives”. The Night of the Long Knives was a purge (also called “Röhm purge”) in which Adolf Hitler and the regime of Nazi Germany targeted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.
On June 30, 1934, Hitler was in fear of the popularity of Ernst Röhm, the head of the SA also called the “Brownshirts”. So he personally ordered the murder of “loyal” Nazis which included past opponents of the party. At least 85 people were murdered in the purge, which took place between 30 June and 2 July 1934.
Maintaining the Nazi ideology and supremacy at all cost was the aim of Adolf Hitler and his “loyal” supporters. His supporters were always willing to murder anyone who spoke out against the Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Hitler’s “Death Machine” in overdrive
On July 9, 1934, SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of all German Concentration Camps. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.
Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.
Camps became commemorative museums
Many of the former camps have been turned into museums commemorating the victims of the Nazi regime, while the camp system has become a symbol of violence and terror.
Millions died in these camps. There are many survivors alive today who’ve shared their stories of survival. Today, groups around the world have paid special tribute to these survivors by visiting these museums.
Fascist ideology promotes antisemitism
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antisemitism has been around for centuries and manifest itself by anti-Jewish incidents. When high-profile people speak against the Jewish community in a derogatory way that could be interpreted as antisemitism or hate crimes when graffiti is painted on Jewish property.
The following are examples of notable instances of persecution of Jews – These include the Rhineland massacres preceding the First Crusade in 1096. The Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the 1348–1351 persecution of Jews during the Black Death, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391. The persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition…
The expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Cossack massacres in Ukraine from 1648 to 1657. Various anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire between 1821 and 1906, the 1894–1906 Dreyfus affair in France, the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe during World War II and Soviet anti-Jewish policies.
Antisemites take action against Jews
Historically most manifestations of antisemitism have taken place in Christian Europe since the early 20th century. Antisemitism has increased in the Middle East, North America, and among far right hate groups, right-wing politicians, far right celebrities, and many right-wing local communities.
Since 2020, antisemitism has grown in online chat groups. Antisemites are often attracted to and driven by fund-raising dollars through membership fees and clothing promoting their views.
Far-right politicians like those in Nazi Germany find a “spirit of belonging” in such groups. Many sociologist have concluded that “spirit” often evaporates when members realize they have been “used” to separate them from their money via donations, fees and product purchases.
German Nazis prepares for war
On August 2, 1934, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian-born German politician who as dictator of Germany became commander-in-chief of all German armed forces.
In a meeting with German military leaders on 3 February 1933, Hitler, in a speech, spoke of “conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation” as his ultimate foreign policy objectives.
As commander-in-chief, he did not prioritize making the lives of the German people better, he prioritized building up the military. In August 1936, in response to a growing economic crisis caused by his rearmament efforts, Hitler was preparing for war against peaceful neighbors.
Hitler ordered Göring to implement a Four Year Plan to prepare Germany for war within the next four years. The plan envisaged an all-out struggle between “Judeo-Bolshevism” and German Nazism, which in Hitler’s view required a committed effort of rearmament regardless of the economic costs.
What is Judeo–Bolshevism ideology?
Jewish Bolshevism, also Judeo–Bolshevism, is an anti-communist and antisemitic canard, which alleges that the Jews were the originators of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and that they held primary power among the Bolsheviks who led the revolution.
Similarly, the unproven conspiracy theory of Jewish Communism alleges that Jews have dominated the Communist movements in the world, and is related to the Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory (ZOG), which alleges that Jews control world politics.
In 1917, after the Russian Revolution, the antisemitic canard was the title of the pamphlet The Jewish Bolshevism, which featured in the racist propaganda of the anti-communist White movement forces during the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922.
In America, during the 1930s, the Nazi Party in Germany and the German American Bund in the United States propagated the antisemitic theory to their followers, sympathizers, and fellow travelers.
In Poland, Żydokomuna was a term for the antisemitic opinion that the Jews had a disproportionately high influence in the administration of Communist Poland.
In far-right politics, the antisemitic canards of “Jewish Bolshevism”, “Jewish Communism”, and the ZOG conspiracy theory are catchwords falsely asserting that Communism is a Jewish conspiracy.
What is the German American Bund?
The German American Bund, or the German American Federation was a German-American Nazi organization which was established in 1936 as a successor to the Friends of New Germany (FoNG, FDND in German).
The organization chose its new name in order to emphasize its American credentials after the press accused it of being unpatriotic. The Bund was allowed to consist only of American citizens of German descent. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.
Adolf Hitler prepares Germany for war
On August 3, 1934, Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself “Führer” (leader).
On October 1, 1934, Adolf Hitler expanded the German army and navy, violating Treaty of Versailles as he prepared Germany for the coming war. Hitler prioritized the war machine over caring for the lives of ordinary Germans.
The fight against the Church
On November 26, 1934, Swiss Calvinist theologian Karl Barth (10 May 1886 – 10 December 1968) surrenders to Nazis. Barth was largely responsible for the writing of the Barmen Declaration (Barmer Erklärung). He was wanted for his Christian writings and refusing to support Hitler’s Nazi party.
The Barmen Declaration rejected the influence of Nazism on German Christianity by arguing that the Church’s allegiance to the God of Jesus Christ should give it the impetus and resources to resist the influence of other lords, such as the German Führer, Adolf Hitler.
Barth mailed this declaration to Hitler personally. He was forced to resign from his professorship at the University of Bonn in 1935 for refusing to swear an oath to Hitler.
He was deported from Germany in 1935 after he refused to sign (without modification) the Oath of Loyalty to Adolf Hitler and went back to Switzerland and became a professor in Basel (1935–1962).
In his later writings he made the point that the Church’s willingness to side with anti-socialist and conservative forces had led to its susceptibility for National Socialist ideology.
How can we benefit from history?
These historic events can prove to be a lesson in respect, proper conduct and behavior towards ones fellowman, ones neighbor, ones community, ones country, universal laws, law enforcement, and ones family.
Historical Lessons… encourages and promotes the positive of an idea which leads to building better communities while the negative of an idea leads to suspicion, accusations, conspiracy theory, and a less than ideal outcome.
Historical Lessons on crime, antisemitism, and justice against ambitious leaders and people with extreme ideology can motivate any open-minded person to weigh and prioritize the facts over conspiracy theories and disinformation. Positive will always triumph (good) over negative (evil).
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