Freiheit
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- Sep 30, 2015
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The article tried to equate the Weimar Republics woes to what is happening in the US today.`Evidently you didn't read the source article. It was not well sourced nor were many of the suspicious claims made sourced. The author failed to mention that the National Socialists had the largest membership in the Reichstag at the time. Nor did the author discuss the establishment of the Freikorps after WW1 to fight the Soviet backed communists in the German revolution of 1918-1919. The Freikorps were converted by the National Socialists to the Sturmabteilung (Storm Division or Brownshirts) to fight the communists. All that said to point out the Weimar Republic in no way resembled the US in 2018. The only object of this article was to generate fear in the ignorant who read it. He made wild claims with no attempt to provide credible sources for his claims. The article is fake news of the first class masquarading as a scholarly essay.
What the h does your history lesson have to do with the topic and the veracity of the source? Nothing.
The author cherry picked the events he addressed to substantiate his point. He did not offer credible sources or any source for his claims. The article is nothing more than his opinion based on shoddy scholarship.
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke