Key Points Summary
- The Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat (Reichstag Fire Decree) was issued on February 28, 1933, by German President Paul von Hindenburg in response to the Reichstag fire.
- The decree nullified several fundamental rights established by the Weimar Constitution, claiming it was necessary to prevent communist threats, thus enabling the government to arrest thousands of political opponents.
- It was a critical step in the Nazi regime’s consolidation of power alongside the February 4, 1933, decree banning political assemblies and the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933.
- This marked the transition from the Weimar Republic to a totalitarian regime led by the NSDAP (Nazi Party).
Executive Summary
The Reichstag Fire Decree, issued by President Hindenburg on February 28, 1933, allowed the Nazi government to suppress civil liberties under the guise of protecting the state from alleged communist insurrection following the Reichstag fire. This set the stage for widespread arrests and the establishment of a totalitarian regime, effectively dismantling democratic governance in Germany. The content suggests a critique of modern political narratives and a warning of historical patterns, emphasizing the importance of democratic principles to prevent the rise of unchallenged power.
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Original Link: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verordnung_des_Reichspräsidenten_zum_Schutz_von_Volk_und_Staat
User Message: It’s hardly even satire. It’s hard truth with a flat joke here or there.
Alice Weidel calling hitler a communist would be hilarious if there weren’t people lacking education to the extent that they simply believe it.
Die am 30. Januar 1933 gebildete Hitlerregierung hatte behauptet, die Kommunisten seien für den Reichstagsbrand in der Nacht vom 27. auf den 28. Februar 1933 verantwortlich und hätten damit zur Revolution aufrufen wollen. Mit dieser Begründung wurde die Verordnung „zur Abwehr kommunistischer staatsgefährdender Gewaltakte“ erlassen, die kurz Reichstagsbrandverordnung genannt wird. Tausende von Gegnern der Reichsregierung wurden daraufhin verhaftet.
“The communists burned down the Reichstag and are trying to incite civil unrest and revolution! We will root out every single communist in our government and replace them with” loyalists. And tadaa, two years later world war 2 kicked off under a fascist government.
Damn near every step of the way is straight out of the playbook because history is doomed to repeat when you create a historic narrative that demonizes the logical opposite of radical fascism, totalitarianism and top down dictatorships even more than radical fascism itself.
Stop judging policies based off of sympathy to the presenter and aversion to labels. It’s sheer idiocy how many people in the US can fundamentally agree with Bernie Sanders’ policies but would not vote for the man because he’s media labelled as socialist, how many christian people talk about “free market” and vote for the most insidious corporate powers to reign over the country when the 10th commandment pretty much says “don’t be a greedy fuck”.
Unchecked capitalism is a system that inevitably leads to monopolies by sector and extreme power in the hands of individuals that are most willing to step on others to the detriment of everyone below a certain level of influence.
Democratic governance exists for the sake of ensuring that each human within the boundaries of a collective has a voice. It exists exactly so that wealth, status and tradition are kept in check, because as a rule of thumb, most leaders that have achieved power through these means alone were terrible leaders. Their purpose is not to lead, they do not know how to lead, their purpose is to take and when there is nothing to take from others, they will take from their own.
But we do not live in the 1930s anymore, smartphones have destroyed society’s capacity for reasoning and consent and attention have been extensively researched and monetized. Imagine getting bought out as a voter, but you didn’t even see a single penny of the money that went into your vote- it all went to meta, foreign bot farms and fucking podcasters. Cheapest buyout I’ve ever seen.
But wars just aren’t the fucking same when nukes exist, when sarin gas exists, when CRISPR exists. Drones are almost jokes when I can buy a CRISPR kit and splice antibacterial resistance into TB. When it’s quite possible to splice HIV-like behaviors into the flu.
It’s not satire, it’s a genuine appeal to reason. Love thy goddamn neighbor and stop eating convenient lies like fast food.
Sure it’s covenient to believe that everything will be fine. If it won’t be though, we’ll have just doomed generations to a pointless existence culminating in a cruel and bitter end- for greed and out of willful ignorance.
for more on see the post on bypassing methods