Monday, January 31, 2011

Nazi Germany

From the journal of "HI" a marvellous teleporting space wizard sent from the future. (This explains my knowledge of future events, and why I never use conventional means of transportation. This also helps explain the apparent typo in the title of the blog.)

I have recently teleported to Germany.


 

Things have changed remarkably since my last visit; I am starting to question why I returned.


 

The Nazis are everywhere and Hitler has become the modern King of Germany. As weeks progress, I notice a simple strategy to Hitler. Propaganda, repetition, and brute force. He began a massive propaganda campaign dedicated to eliminating the Jews and Communists who are responsible for Versailles by stabbing Germany in the back. He also promised to end unemployment by building weapons and military infrastructure. This appealed to many German citizens, especially young men who had been overwhelmed with inflation and disparity as of late. The Sturmabteilung, the Nazis first paramilitary wing, went about bending Versailles in a variety of ways. They produced excess U-boats than were needed for Sweden, they trained tank crews in automobiles, and they even placed fighter pilots in the airmail service for experience. 1933 the Nazis were expanding but still decided to form a coalition government with the Nationalist party who held fairly similar views with the NSADP. Von Hindenburg the current President despised Hitler because he didn't want an Austrian running Germany. However, the nationalists saw Hitler as a puppet that could be manipulated to their liking and convinced von Hindenburg Hitler would collapse under pressure in no time flat. With Hindenburg's death, Hitler fuses the roles of Chancellor and President, becoming the Fuhrer of Germany. The Weimar republic is dissolved and all parties are outlawed except for the NSDAP. He began to violate Versailles by building larger battleships, and exceeding the army restrictions. Soon Hitler identified a new threat. The leader of the Sturmabteilung, Ernst Roehm now possessed tremendous power controlling the Brown Shirts. Hitler perceived him as a threat and called up Heinrich Hinler and his other paramilitary the Waffen SS. The night of June 30, 1934 is one I will never forget. Hundreds of members of the Sturmabteilung were executed, by another paramilitary organization the Waffen SS. Following that night a drastic change occurred. There were no more brown shirts on the streets, Hitler was now being backed by the Waffen SS, an elite, and savage group lead by Heinrich Hinler, an extreme loyalist to Hitler. Then in November of 1935, the situation in Germany became much worse. Hitler passed the Nuremberg laws which set into motion a violent campaign to remove Jews from Germany. It essentially legalized anti-Semitism and heavily restricted what even German-Jewish people could do. Those were terrible times but true violence, and monstrosity appeared with the implementation of the Kristallnacht, where Nazis used widespread force to alleviate Germany of the so called Jewish problem. It was sparked by the assassination of a German secretary by a Jewish refugee. The violence was carried out November 9 and 10th 1938, and left 90 Jews dead. This marked a change in how the Nazis dealt with Jews, and began a widespread violent attack on all Jewish people within and beyond the borders of Germany. Much of the violence was carried out by two sub-divisions of the Waffen SS: the Einsatzgruppen, and the Totenkopf. The Totenkopf were known for their skull and cross bones insignia and their barbaric treatments of communists and Jewish people. They assisted in the running of the concentration camps and wee infamous for attacking unarmed civilians. The Einsatzgruppen were the murderous fiends who would take over abandoned villages and clear out all remaining civilians. Soon came the death camps in Germany, when the Einsatzgruppen weren't effective enough. Communists, Jewish people, and political enemies, all faced Hitler's wrath. Auschwitz, the largest of the camps, facilitated the killing of over a million people. As one could imagine, this is not the ideal travel destination for me. I am quick to depart.

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