On April 7, 1945, 2,500 Jewish prisoners from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were put on the train and were set to be transported to Theresienstadt. However, on April 13, the train was forced to stop near the town of Farsleben due to bombings by Allied forces advancing in the area. Some of those on board escaped the train and met up with soldiers from the 30th Division of the US Army who then returned to liberate those still trapped in the carriages.
When the handful of Nazi soldiers guarding the train saw an American tank and jeep coming over the hill, they fled. US soldiers then flung open the doors to the carriages and the occupants poured out.
George Gross, a tank commander, said: “Everyone looked like a skeleton, so starved, their faces sick. And there was something else. When they saw us, they began to laugh with joy, if you can call it laughter. It was more like an outburst of pure, almost hysterical relief.”
As prisoners encountered the liberating troops, a Jewish US soldier, Abraham Cohen, told them “Ich bin euech a Yidd,” a Yiddish phrase meaning “I am also a Jew,” and then showed them a Star of David hanging around his neck.
Matthew A. Rozell, who specializes in teaching about the Holocaust, has posted the video and blogged more details at his site TeachingHistoryMatters.com
…largest race employment discrimination class action settlement in the nation’s history.
Coca-Cola, like Tesla, had been charged with egregiously awful racism. Unlike Tesla (which says it would rather fight to the end and die in a “blaze of glory“) Coca-Cola settled on $192M to cover missing back pay to avoid being found guilty of missing back pay.
The monetary settlement in this case was in the amount of $192 million. The majority of this money went to repay employees for lost earnings and non-wage-related damages.
Sadly the famous beverage company has been very racist for a very, very long time, and sometimes even overtly in a political power-grab. Will it change now because of lawsuits? Is it on any kind of path towards becoming a respectable beverage company, instead of spreading a “classic” hate formula?
1951 Nebraska anti-racist campaign. “We discovered the problem wasn’t uplifting the Black community. The problem was getting the white community to get their feet off of the Black necks.” Source: Matt Holland
I mean Coke management seems to have really, truly loved Hitler’s racism, like really really loved that guy and bet on him big-time.
Put more bluntly, Coke was made for white people.
Coca-Cola collaborated with the Nazis, really, really closely. Coke was the official sponsor of major propaganda events for Hitler, such as the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
[After the sudden unexpected death of American-born Ray Powers, the German-born Max] Keith took steps to identify Coke with Nazism, including sending sales teams to mass patriotic events. “As young men goose-stepped in formation at Hitler Youth rallies,” writes Pendergrast, “Coca-Cola trucks accompanied the marchers, hoping to capture the next generation.”
Max Keith was known for his unrepentant coin-operated lies, working hard to convince Germans that it was invented by Nazis so they would drink it. He even suggested to the American company they fire Jews to prevent any association to what he had forcefully branded a Nazi drink.
When told by Allied forces to stop doing business with racists, Coca-Cola pivoted hard. The Aryan “Fantasie” brand (Fanta for short) was born under Keith to keep racist profit dreams alive. Not just lies for profit, not just promotion of Nazism, he locked himself and his hidden employer into secretly collaborating with genocide.
Using “Genozid Fantasie” would have been too obvious as a brand name, and they couldn’t be caught selling Coca-Cola to Nazis trying to kill Americans, so Fanta became Coke’s official and sanctioned answer to how to keep running their 43 bottling plants and 600 distributors under Nazi control.
Fanta was a mix of industrial food byproducts (apple waste, milk waste) marketed to Nazis as a healthy fruit drink. Fanta was short for “fantasy” because Coca-Cola liked how Nazism always was about swallowing lies.
Profits surged, money made from extending WWII by directly feeding Nazi command and control supplied. Moreover, profits after the war ended surge again. Coca-Cola blandly pretended all the guilt-ridden production facilities for genocide were totally legit to operate without stop (ok to flip sides) while everyone else who refused to serve Nazis, or were punished, had to completely restart and rebuild.
“I don’t think anyone [at Coca-Cola] cared that [Fanta] had roots inside of Nazi Germany,” says Pendergrast, “I think they thought no one would pay attention.”
Coca-Cola loves it when people don’t pay attention to their racism. That’s exactly how they get away with it, sometimes right out in the open.
After the NSDAP formed in 1920, incorporating late-1800s use of anti-Semitic swastikas as their symbol, the Nazis fired heavy doses of propaganda into the United States. Given the rise of the “Second Klan” had started from the top as “America First” under President Woodrow Wilson, the country had become fertile ground for white nationalist hate groups. No surprise then by 1933 big-time Nazi-agents William Dudley Pelley had created the Silver Shirt Legion of America and Heinz Spanknöbel built the Friends of New Germany.
Allegedly it was Milwaukee management for the beverage company, famous for their pre-war racist politics such as Silver Shirt and America First rallies, that came up with swastika Coca-Cola memorabilia to promote American racism.
Racists made a Coca-Cola swastika to boost racist consumer retention. How racist. I guarantee they thought no one would pay attention, and never expected Americans in 2023 to go around saying the swastika was just some generic symbol of luck.
Again, for the hundredth time, Nazis believed luck only went to the Aryans because it was unlucky to not have a swastika (e.g. Jews). They appropriated the symbol after 1871 as a connection from Indian culture claiming it proved Aryan race supremacy as well as racial exclusion… as a fraudulent story about luck.
“How lucky to be white” expressed by the swastika since the late 1800s is NOT actually a symbol of generic luck, it’s just plain racism. Let me put it like this to be clear:
This became far more well known by the 1930s when Hitler took the swastika out of crazy fringe hate group meetings to be his symbol of a racist government, but I assure you it was true for at least 40 years prior (otherwise Hitler wouldn’t have used it, just like the red/white/black colors of 1871).
Tesla and Twitter clearly have some big shoes to fill with their current allegations of mistreatment of workers, let alone humanity.
Maybe Twitter recently changing their logo to an “X” is just their way of saying Coca-Cola shouldn’t be known as the most Hitler-loving American company.
People have asked me lately if I’ve seen news footage of the giant symbol erected haphazardly atop Twitter headquarters in SF. Yes, yes, I tell them. I sometimes watch it getting destroyed by the U.S. Army just to cheer me up.
Twitter’s ‘X’ sign is taken down in San Francisco after neighbors filed 24 complaints
Twitter’s Erector-Swastika Source: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
Why do I wish they had filed 88 complaints? But seriously, let’s talk about the “X” for a minute.
Anyone who knows basic Nazi history can attest that the antisemitic use of a swastika started in the late 1800s with an “X” design. Elon Musk saying he is obsessed with such an “X” is very, very similar to a certain group of Swedes, Poles, Romanians, Finns, Germans… saying they used the swastika as an innocent “good luck charm“.
The basis of the Nazi Swastika is this “X” decoration unearthed 1871 by a German archaeologist. Source: Smithsonian
It was only meant as “good luck” to the Aryans who thought it would bring them victory in an existential fight to the death with the “unlucky” (non-swastika) races they hated and wanted to exterminate. That’s what “lucky” meant in swastika terms to those who proudly displayed their “X” affinity.
These KKK “X” uniforms were a byproduct of President Woodrow Wilson’s 1915 national promotion of costumed violence against Blacks.
Perhaps even more to the point, the exploding swastika video at the start of this post is from Nazi party rally grounds. Do you know the peculiar and specific phrase that commonly was associated with it?
…the [new swastika app] tagline reads either like a desperate admission or an embarrassing troll. It references a colloquialism…that valorizes a spectacular but premature death.
A light-touch booklet originally released by Imperial War Museum (UK), then republished by Ballentine (US) in 1971. Considered a collectible by Nazi supporters.
Boom.
Twitter is banging a big Nazi drum, arguably the biggest since ’45. Can you hear it?
…death resulting from choosing to fight back against overwhelming enemy force rather than surrender; to choose to receive unilateral deadly force in conflict rather than end the conflict…
WWII was basically over in 1942.
The extremist and arrogant Germans were toast, yet they used the next three years for mindless self-harm, notably genocide based on racism.
…it was difficult to go to work, knowing [staff working for Elon Musk] would face racist slurs, references to slavery and offensive graffiti for 12 hours at a time. He said he made a verbal complaint to human resources in late 2021, but never heard back and nothing changed.
Source: Lewyn, B. S. (2001). Holocaust Memoirs. Page 285
That sounds like Twitter’s “blaze” strategy, to attract kids with an app they can use to harm others in a mad rush towards the “extreme freedom” of hitting bottom and commiting suicide.
The British soldiers said that God and Chocolate is what melted a Nazi child’s cold coal heart full of false fears and nightmares. Such stupid orientation of kids towards mass suicide was the result of disinformation, the kind of thing Twitter’s app is known for, right?
Speaking of running out of chocolate, consider how the Nazis tried to control all aspects of life through an “everything” synchronization plan.
The Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and quickly began trying to control all aspects of society. This internal consolidation of power to remake Germany as a Nazi state was known as Gleichschaltung. The term is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.” Under Gleichschaltung, German political, social, and cultural life were rearranged to serve Nazi goals.
While Twitter has fashioned an obnoxious “X” symbol different yet similar to Hitler’s adaptations of the same symbolism, they also just invoked the Nazi concept of Gleichschaltung.
New CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted that X would be “centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking,” a step toward Musk’s vision of creating the “everything app”…
A proprietary, centrally planned and controlled app (Gleichschaltung) to control all aspects of life (serving Twitter’s goals) is a terrible, terrible idea from a terrible human who wants to repeat the worst mistakes in history.
Twitter has been rebranded with a Nazi symbol, with a Nazi phrase, and even with a Nazi Gleichschaltung app… need I go any further?
…Twitter has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk.
People are writing that the CEO, laying in a bed with Saudi Arabia, is now belting out obnoxious hateful anti-Semitic rants on the platform that he has covered in swastikas. Yeah, so anyone think maybe the Nazi logo, tagline and app weren’t enough evidence already?
The latest news has people asking yet again when he will be stopped.
Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet…. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.
Elon Musk was actively defending the Russian fleet (likely due to insistence of the Chinese government) with lies about escalation risk.
Destroying Russia’s flagship should have cascaded into sinking far more ships. Instead, SpaceX self-admittedly interfered by helping Russian officials protect their warships in order to keep firing missiles at schools and hospitals. Odessa’s infrastructure used in grain and agricultural exports, for example, were under attack by this Russian fleet and impacting a lot of the world. Musk’s interference to keep the attacks coming, while ignoring every and all other military use of communication, exposes him as having very political intent.
Some see this at Logan Act levels of traitor-ship. It does remind me of the Chennault Affair, when Nixon went to Vietnam to keep the war going longer and kill more Americans.
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953) is old and obscure. It was enacted by President Adams in 1799 very soon after George Logan, a doctor from Philadelphia, had setup meetings in Paris to “usurp the Executive authority” intending to influence France and defeat U.S. foreign policy objectives.
To obtain a Logan Act conviction, a prosecutor would need to show that the defendant sought to influence a foreign government with respect to a discrete “dispute” or “controversy” with the United States or would need to identify a “measure of the United States” that the defendant sought to “defeat.” …if the law is ever used, we suspect it will be used against the narrow class of people who are capable of causing serious damage to U.S. foreign policy.
It is almost never enforced but that should probably change now. Just think how it would have kept Nixon out of office.
Instead of “tweets” people say “eXtwitter” has become hate speech, or “eXcrements”
In an otherwise fascinating read about changes in Charleston, I found the following paragraph… to be inconsistent and misleading.
But it’s impossible to ignore for both white and Black Americans trying to grapple with the country’s original sin, whether they are descendants of enslaved people or those who enslaved them.
Americans could be descendants of neither people enslaved, nor people who enslaved others. In fact, as an example that never gets enough attention, why not teach Americans that they could be descendants of people who abolished and fought slavery at every turn?
The idea that a white student should feel shame about being white is perpetuating the mistake of hiding the role of whites in ending slavery. That crucial detail could change everything. Ask a classroom of white kids, which one of you had relatives who fought against slavery?
Why should any white student be condemned to always ignore the contributions of a huge number of whites who were anti-racist, who did the right things?
One of the big mistakes in teaching American history is typically to leave out the John Brown equation, let alone a Robert Gould Shaw, Silas Soule or President Grant.
Seriously, ask any American who he was. Or who was Robert Gould Shaw? What did the men of the 54th do that was so important in a Civil War about slavery?
There were many white men who fought and WON the Civil War, yet somehow being white means shutting down all discussion of these heroes instead of celebrating them. President Grant was one of the greatest military and political leaders in history. Tell white kids to look up to him when they read about slavery.
…no monies shall be used by any school district or school to provide instruction in, to teach, instruct, or train any administrator, teacher, staff member, or employee to adopt or believe, or to approve for use, make use of, or carry out standards, curricula, lesson plans, textbooks, instructional materials, or instructional practices that serve to inculcate any of the following concepts… (7) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a particular race to oppress members of another race…
There’s a long and sordid history of racism that calls people lazy. It’s no secret. It’s well known and often getting racists into big trouble.
EEOC alleged that African-American employees were referred to as “lazy”…
The SC government has taken court decisions about being called lazy and cooked up censorship in schools. They seem to want to prevent someone from criticizing “meritocracy” (encoded racism), or to prevent someone from criticizing “hard work ethic” traits (encoded racism).
Their point seems to be if racists aren’t allowed to directly call some race lazy then those racists will write laws that protect the ability to say that racism is a meritocracy, and that racism is just proof of a hard work ethic.
See the problems? It’s basically a gag rule that prohibits calling out racists for being racist.
…racist policies were leading to racist ideas, and racist ideas were leading to ignorance and hate. I realized people were creating racist policies out of economic, political and cultural self-interest. And those racist policies were leading to racial inequalities, disparities and inequities.
Saying someone is superior is an inverse of saying someone is inferior. White supremacists are inherently racist. So if policies are written to protect superiority language, even prohibiting calling it racist… that’s still racist.
Racists play some long and complicated games, you have to admit. But maybe people getting more and more interested in the slavery history of America, let alone the genocide, will help push through the nonsense.
People are writing that the CEO, laying in a 
