Some more relevant history:
The US/Nazi connection was not just a 1930’s thing. It also fundamentally shaped the Cold War.
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You’re welcome.
The stains become a warning.
Whatever you see as Trumpists, I’m afraid it’s just the tip of the iceberg. True, those on the bottom of the food chain are simple to manipulate through racism: they’re no longer on the bottom. However, if Nazi Germany is an example for what might happen, note that racism and nationalism was commonplace, and that almost everyone did their share to enable WW2 and the Holocaust. There was very little resistance, even though Hitler did not leave a shadow of a doubt about his racism.
So it’s not seeing Trumpists that gives me pause, it’s the open and structural racism (including sexism) in the USA.
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You forgot to add Fox News to the list!
I’m not usually one to feel triggered by something, but the phrase “Love letters to Hitler?” Yeah, that does it. I’m trying to picture a klezmer band using this name as a sarcastic fuck-you to Nazis, but it isn’t doing the trick.
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It rhymes, of course.
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Seriously, the Paul Revere line made me cringe.
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The Documentation Center in Munich is extremely well done. Especially given Munich’s role as the Hauptstadt der Bewegung, it puts the rise of the Nazis in a clearer, immediate context.
That poem could be served up today as an ode to Trump. You would only need to change the title.
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It’s true. People who blindly follow a charismatic leader all end up sounding the same: like gullible fanboiz. I feel similarly about proponents of homeopathy, CBD and CrossFit.
But that’s what’s so scary about Germany during this time–they most definitely weren’t stupid. They were probably the best educated society in the world, with a thriving & cosmopolitan art community, and this still happened. I think it’s too tempting to write off the people besotted with Hitler as stupid, when a significant percentage of them could probably discuss classical music (mostly Wagner, but still…) or architecture intelligently.
Then you should thoroughly enjoy the latest Jon McNaugton painting:
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