25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming
More Like Nazi Germany
By
Michael Snyder, on February 15th, 2012
The United States of
America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the
Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi
Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of
you. Most Americans simply have never learned what life was really like
back in Nazi Germany. Under Adolf Hitler, Germany was a Big Brother
totalitarian police state that ruthlessly repressed freedom and individual
liberty. Under Adolf Hitler, Germany adopted socialism, dramatically
increased government spending and raised taxes to astronomical levels.
Under Adolf Hitler, abortion became legal in Germany, the government took over
health care and Christianity was pushed out of the public schools and out of public
life. To prove all of these points, I am going to use extensive quotes
from two sources. Kitty Werthmann was a child living a peaceful life in
Austria when Hitler took over her nation. Her eyewitness accounts about
what life was like under Nazi Germany are invaluable. In addition, I will
also be quoting extensively from author Bruce Walker.
He is the author of a book entitled “The Swastika Against The Cross: The Nazi
War On Christianity”, and during his years of research he has uncovered some
absolutely jaw dropping stuff. After reading the information in the rest
of this article, there should be no doubt that the United States is becoming
just like Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany shows
us what happens when the state becomes god. Adolf Hitler was certainly
more racist than the leaders of America are today, but other than that there
are very few differences between the road that Adolf Hitler led Germany down
and the path that the United States is being led down.
The following are 25
signs that America is rapidly becoming more like Nazi Germany….
#1 Nazi Germany was
a totalitarian Big Brother police state that constantly monitored everything
that German citizens did.
Today, the
bureaucrats that run things in the United States are also absolutely obsessed
with constantly trying to monitor us. For example, there are now control
freaks that inspect the lunches of
preschool students in certain areas of the country in order to
make sure that they contain the “right” foods….
A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken
nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother
packed was not nutritious.
The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and
apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according
to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes in the
More at Four classroom that day.
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the
Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in
pre-kindergarten programs – including in-home day care centers – to meet USDA
guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving
of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if
the lunches are brought from home.
#2 Nazi officials
often used their positions of power to force others to do dehumanizing things.
This is exactly what
the TSA is doing today. It would be really easy to imagine some Nazi
military officers forcing a young woman to walk back and forth in front of them
several times so that they could admire her form. Well, that is what TSA
agents are doing to American women today. The following comes from a recent Wired article….
TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo
screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who
said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.
One woman who flew out of Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport
several months ago said a female agent sent her through a body scanner three
times after the agent commented on her “cute” body.
#3 In Nazi Germany,
even women and children were treated like dehumanized cattle.
Well, today
schoolchildren are being strip-searched all over the United States. Down
in Georgia, one student was recently strip-searched by
public school officials after another student falsely accused him of having
marijuana.
Another student down
in Albuquerque was recently forced to strip down to his underwear while five
adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket.
The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 In Nazi Germany,
authorities could stop you and search you at any time and for any reason.
In America that is
not supposed to happen, but it is happening. Last year, TSA “VIPR teams”
conducted approximately 8,000 “unannounced security
screenings” at subway stations, bus terminals, seaports and
highway rest stops.
If you are not able
to produce “your papers”, there is a good chance that you will get thrown into
prison in America. For example, a 21-year-old college student named
Samantha Zucker was recently arrested and put in a New York City jail for 36
hours just because she could not produce any
identification for police.
#5 Under Adolf
Hitler, there were massive increases in government spending.
According to eyewitness Kitty Werthmann, just about
everyone was getting some sort of a handout from the German government….
Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government
to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and
education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college
tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food
stamps, clothing, and housing.
Of course, as I have
written about so many times before, this is the exact same thing
that we are seeing in the United States today.
#6 Under Hitler,
taxes were raised dramatically in order to pay for all of these social
programs.
Kitty
Werthmann says that “our tax rates went up to 80% of our income.”
In the United States
our tax rates have not gotten that bad yet, but when you total up all federal
taxes, all state taxes, all local taxes, all property taxes and all sales
taxes, there are a significant number of Americans that do pay more than 50% of
their incomes in taxes.
#7 The economy of
Nazi Germany was very highly socialized.
As Ludwig Von Mises
once correctly observed, the German economy
under Hitler was not capitalist at all….
What Mises identified was that private ownership of the means of
production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance
of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For
it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised
all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners,
decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom
it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what
wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private
owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private
owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.
The United States
has not gotten to the level of Nazi Germany yet, but we do have a socialist
president and back in 2009 the cover of Newsweek boldly proclaimed that “We Are All Socialists Now“.
#8 In Nazi Germany,
if you conducted business outside of the socialist paradigm you were heavily
punished.
Well, the same thing
is happening in the United States today. For example, the FDA has been
running elaborate entrapment schemes
that are designed to entrap producers of raw milk. Any “unauthorized
commerce” is dealt with very strictly by the U.S. government these days.
#9 In Nazi Germany,
government regulation of business got wildly out of control.
The following is
eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann….
My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables.
Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because
people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have
additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack
bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business.
If the government owned the large businesses and not many small
ones existed, it could be in control.
We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to
buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency
specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the
live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
Of course we all
know about all of the ridiculous regulations
that the U.S. government is burdening businesses with today. In every day
and age control freaks love to stick it to business people that are just trying
to make a living.
#10 Under Hitler,
free market capitalism was absolutely hated.
National Socialist
theologian Gregor Strasser once stated the following….
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the
present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and
we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system.
And as I have
written about previously, a lot of Barack Obama’s strongest supporters are socialists and communists,
and an increasing number of Americans are showing disdain for capitalism.
In fact, some recent polls show that young adults in America actually have a
more favorable view of socialism than they do of capitalism.
#11 In Nazi Germany,
the health care system was taken over by the government.
The following is
more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann….
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American
doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was
socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The
problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for
everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people
were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you
needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was
no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at
the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and
emigrated to other countries.
Of course we all
know what is going on in America today. The government spends nearly half
of all health care dollars and Obamacare is going to mean more government
control over the health care system than ever before.
#12 Under Adolf
Hitler, abortion was made “safe and legal” in Germany.
It turns out that
Hitler was a huge fan of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret
Sanger. And as I wrote about recently, it was
Sanger that once said the following….
“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant
members is to kill it.”
Hitler echoed this
sentiment when he wrote the following in Mein Kampf….
“The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating
equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind.”
After the Nazis came
to power in 1933, abortion was very quickly legalized. By 1935 there were
approximately 500,000 abortions
being performed in Germany every single year.
Yes, Hitler very
much encouraged Aryan women to have as many children as possible. But he
also very much viewed abortion as a way to reduce “undesirable” populations.
Unfortunately,
something very similar is happening today. Abortion clinics are often
located in the “poor” part of town, and a staggering 72 percent of
Planned Parenthood’s “customers” have incomes that are either equal to or
beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
#13 In Nazi Germany,
killing the “defective”, the “weak” and the “disabled” was considered to be a
good thing because it made the German people “stronger”.
Unfortunately, many
in America today have fully embraced the eugenics principles which were so
dominant in Nazi Germany.
A 3 year old girl
named Amelia was recently denied a kidney transplant
because she is considered to be “mentally retarded”, and we all remember what
happened to Terri Schiavo.
Not only that, the
editorial page editor of the Detroit News recently proposed putting
contraceptives into the drinking water in Michigan because the state has become
a “breeding ground for poverty“.
This kind of sick
thinking is rapidly spreading in America, and that is a very frightening thing.
#14 In Nazi Germany,
education was nationalized and God was kicked out of the schools.
The following is
more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann….
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public
school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our
schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my
schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a
Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we
wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang Deutschland,
Deutschland, Uber Alles, and had physical education.
Unfortunately, the
exact same thing is happening to U.S. public schools.
#15 Under Adolf
Hitler, God was mocked and religion was pushed out of every corner of public
life.
Just check out the
following information uncovered by author Bruce Walker….
The Nazi tract Gott und Volk was distributed in 1941, and it
describes the life cycle of German youth in the future, who would: “With
parties and gifts the youth will be led painlessly from one faith to the other
and will grow up without ever having heard of the Sermon on the Mount or the
Golden Rule, to say nothing of the Ten Commandments… The education of the youth
is to be confined primarily by the teacher, the officer, and the leaders of the
party. The priests will die out. They have estranged the youth from
the Volk. Into their places will step the leaders. Not deputies of
God. But anyway the best Germans. And how shall we train our
children? Thus, as though they had never heard of Christianity!”
Once again, this
parallels what we are seeing happen in America today. Last year, a high
school student in Southern California was suspended for two days
because he had private conversations with his classmates during which he
discussed Christianity. He was also banned from bringing his Bible to
school ever again.
For many more
examples of this phenomenon, please see this article: “18 Examples Of How Christians
Are Being Specifically Targeted By Big Brother“.
#16 Adolf Hitler
fully embraced the theory of evolution, and Darwinism provided the intellectual
foundation for much of Nazism.
At a Nazi Party
rally in Nuremberg in 1933, Hitler declared that “higher race subjects to
itself a lower race . . .a right which we see in nature and which can
be regarded as the sole conceivable right“.
Hitler was obsessed
with the “survival of the fittest” and he took this theory to its logical
extremes. The following is how one author put
it….
“Hitler was influenced above all by the theories of the
nineteenth-century social Darwinist school, whose conception of man as
biological material was bound up with impulses towards a planned society. He
was convinced that the race was disintegrating, deteriorating through faulty
breeding as a result of a liberally tinged promiscuity that was vitiating the
nation’s blood. And this led to the establishment of a catalogue of ‘positive’
curative measures: racial hygiene, eugenic choice of marriage partners, the
breeding of human beings by the methods of selection on the one hand and
extirpation on the other”
But of course we
have no problem with teaching this flawed theory to
our children in the public schools of America today.
Haven’t we learned
anything from history?
#17 Under Adolf
Hitler, the state started taking over the job of child care.
The following is
more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann….
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the
government immediately established child care centers. You could take your
children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7
days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole
generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children,
just people highly trained in child psychology.
Of course this is
exactly what is happening in America today. Children are raised by day
care centers and public schools, and most parents spend very little time with
their own children.
#18 In Nazi Germany,
it became fashionable to mock Christians and the Christian faith.
The following is
more from author Bruce Walker….
By 1935, the virulently anti-Christian leader of the Hitler
Youth, Baldur von Shirach issued a regulation that prohibited any child from
belonging simultaneously to a church youth group and the Hitler Youth, and
gradually membership in the Hitler Youth became almost obligatory – parents
were told that their children would not get jobs in the civil service unless
they belonged to the Hitler Youth and employers were told not to hire children
who did not belong to the Hitler Youth. Christian schoolchildren who did
not belong to the Hitler Youth or its female counterpart were routinely beaten
up by young Nazi thugs.
Boys inducted into the Hitler Youth were required to explicitly
reject Christianity by oaths like this: “German blood and Christian
baptismal water are completely incompatible.” At Hitler Youth center at
Halle, was the following prominent statement: “The Faith fanatics, who still
to-day slide down on their knees with faces uplifted to heaven, waste their
time in churchgoing and prayers, and have not yet understood that they are
living on the earth and that therefore their task is of a thoroughly earthly
kind. All we Hitler people can still only look with the greatest contempt
on those young people who still run to their silly Evangelical or Catholic
Churches in order to vent their quite superstitious religious feelings.”
Those that believe
that the Nazis embraced Christianity are delusional. The following are
direct quotes out of Hitler Youth training
manuals….
“Christianity is a
religion of slaves and fools.”
“How did Christ
die? Whining at the Cross!”
“The Ten
Commandments represent the lowest instincts of man.”
“Christianity is
merely a cloak for Judaism.”
This is definitely
where things are going in America today. Our television shows and our
movies regularly mock Christians and they are always portrayed as the “bad
guys”.
In addition, the
name of Jesus is rapidly becoming a forbidden word. Some U.S. courts have
even ruled that it is unconstitutional to use the name of “Jesus Christ” during
any official government meeting. The following comes from a recent WorldNetDaily article….
But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for
Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit
court decision that states even “a solitary reference to Jesus Christ” in
invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners’ meetings could do
“violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that are a defining feature
of American public life.”
#19 Under Adolf
Hitler, sexual promiscuity was actually encouraged.
The following is
more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann….
My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took
me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do
that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There
was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun no sports, and no political
indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in
a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask
what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very
alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were
glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our
society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed
my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Of course the exact
same thing is happening in America today. If you doubt that your tax
dollars are going to promote sexual promiscuity, then I have a video for you to
watch. It is a video from the American Life League, and you can view it right here.
DO NOT let any children watch this video. It is done by a pro-life
organization but it is very graphic. I have posted a link to it because
it is imperative that parents understand what is really going on out
there. But please be warned that it is very, very graphic.
#20 Once the Nazis
took power, they rapidly implemented gun control legislation and later on they
took all of the guns away from the populace.
Kitty Werthmann remembers very well what happened in
Austria under the Nazis….
Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns.
Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by
matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully
marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards,
the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The
authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply
voluntarily.
Last year, more than
10 million guns were sold in the United States, but gun control legislation
continues to become even more strict, and it is only a matter of time before
the federal government tries to disarm the U.S. population completely.
#21 Under the Nazis,
large numbers of children were taken away from good families.
The following is
more from author Bruce Walker….
Parents who resisted Nazi anti-Christian indoctrination too
strongly simply had their children taken away from them. The Nazis even
forbade parents to give their children Christian names and ordered babies
instead to be given names like Dietrich, Otto or Siegfried. The home
teaching of Christianity by parents in the home was forbidden. Not
content with simply driving Christianity out of public schools, Himmler banned
all Confessing Church seminaries and instruction in 1937 and he closed all private
religious schools two years later.
Doesn’t this sound
exactly like where America is headed?
In many states, CPS
(“child protective services”) has become one of the most feared government
agencies. All over the nation, thousands upon thousands of children have been
removed from good homes because the parents were not raising them “correctly”.
You can read about
one particularly bad CPS horror story right here.
#22 Under Adolf
Hitler, society became very highly militarized.
Of course we are
seeing the same thing in the U.S. right now.
Sadly, this is even
happening to our public schools. According to blogger Alexander Higgins,
students in kindergarten and the 1st grade in the state of New Jersey are now
required by law to participate “in monthly anti-terrorism drills”. The
following is an excerpt from a letter
that he recently received from the school where his child attends….
Each month a school must conduct one fire drill and one security
drill which may be a lockdown, bomb threat, evacuation, active shooter, or
shelter-in place drill. All schools are now required by law to implement this
procedure.
This is the kind of
thing that a sicko like Adolf Hitler would try to do, and it is not good for
our children.
#23 In Nazi Germany,
the prisons were absolutely packed.
Right now, the
United States has the highest incarceration rate
in the world by far and the largest total prison population
on the entire globe by far.
Even children are
being arrested in alarming numbers. In a previous article,
I described how one 12-year-old girl down in Texas was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume
and how police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl
in Massachusetts.
#24 Under Adolf
Hitler, there was basically no freedom of speech.
In the United States
today we are told that we still have freedom of speech, but that freedom is
being “chilled” in thousands of different ways.
For example, the FBI
is now admittedly recording Internet talk radio programs all over the United
States. The following comes from a recent article by Mark Weaver of WMAL.com….
If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be
recorded by the FBI.
The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to
record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the
airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
So please speak
freely on talk radio. Just realize that the feds will be recording every
single word.
#25 Under Adolf
Hitler, paranoia was standard operating procedure.
In Nazi Germany,
every citizen was a potential threat and everyone had to be constantly watched
for suspicious activity.
Of course the exact
same thing is happening in America today. Just about anything you do can
get you labeled as a “potential terrorist” by the government.
According to a new DHS report,
the following are some of the beliefs and ideologies of potential terrorists….
-”fiercely
nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”
-”anti-global”
-”suspicious of
centralized federal authority”
-”reverent of
individual liberty”
-”believe in
conspiracy theories”
-”a belief that
one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack”
-”a belief in the
need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary
preparations and training or survivalism”
-”impose strict
religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”
-”insert religion
into the political sphere”
-”those who seek to
politicize religion”
-”supported
political movements for autonomy”
-”anti-abortion”
-”anti-Catholic”
-”anti-nuclear”
And the definition
of “suspicious activity” has become so broad in America that it pretty much
covers 100% of us. In 2012, the following activities are considered to be
“suspicious” by the FBI….
-shielding your
computer screen from others
-paying with cash
-acting “nervous”
-using multiple cell
phones
-requesting a
specific room at a hotel
-traveling with a
large amount of luggage
-refusing maid
service at a hotel
-staying in your
room for too long
-changing your
appearance
In addition, the
U.S. government has decided that it would be a really good idea for all of us
to spy on one another. The “If You See Something, Say
Something” campaign looks like it could have been pulled right
out of a Gestapo security handbook.
But America is not
supposed to be about spying on one another and reporting each other to the
secret police.
America is supposed
to be about liberty and freedom.
Recently, Fox News
made a really bad decision by cancelling Freedom Watch. Judge Andrew
Napolitano was one of the few voices on television that was still standing up
for individual liberty.
As we think about
how the Nazification of America has progressed, let the things that Judge
Napolitano said on his last show echo in our minds. Video from that show
is posted below….
So what do all of
you think about the parallels between Nazi Germany and America today?
Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts below….
