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Nazis and Democrats use death to push Party propaganda



Nazis and Democrats use death to push Party propaganda This is the 9th article comparing 1933-1945 tactics the Nazi Party used to take control of Germany with how today's Democrat Party works for political supremacy over America. (Top Left) On April 21,  2021, The Week told of the solemn moment when the Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives "characterized George Floyd's nine-minute-long murder at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as a sacrifice 'for justice,' following the jury returning a guilty verdict on Tuesday evening".

Nancy Pelosi declares George Floyd a martyr

Addressing part of her statement directly to the deceased Floyd, Pelosi said, "Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice." So, the third highest ranking official of the United States Government declared Floyd a martyr for the cause of justice, as he knowingly, as martyrs have done over centuries, sacrificed his life for a righteous cause.  And Speaker Pelosi added Floyd's name to the long list of martyrs going as far back as mid-second century A.D. when Justin Martyr (c. 100--c. 165) said, "If we are punished for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we hope to be saved."  "Martyr" was added to Justin's name after he was beheaded under the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Earlier, in February 2021, at a funeral service for a Capitol Police Officer held in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, both Pelosi and the Majority Leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, eulogized the death of Officer Brian Sicknick. National Public Radio (NPR) reported that "The California Democrat [Pelosi] said that Congress was united in grief, gratitude and appreciation of Sicknick's service and that his sacrifice would not be forgotten. 'Each day, when members enter the Capitol, this temple of democracy, we will remember his sacrifice and...others that day who fought so hard to protect the Capitol and the Congress'". Officer Sicknick's death was sad for his family, and will forever be so.  But unfortunately, the event dedicated to Brian Sicknick was abused by key Democrats when it was used a political theatre--as an occasion to smear Trump.  Here's how:  Pelosi and Schumer attributed Sicknick's death to the Jan. 6 'insurrection'.  Schumer said, "He was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time on a day when peace was shattered…That Brian and his family were made to pay such a high price for his devoted service in the Capitol was a senseless tragedy. One that we are still grappling with." 

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Pelosi and Schumer attributed Sicknick's death to the Jan. 6 'insurrection'

The unmentioned, but clearly implied, evil force that led to Officer Sicknick's death was former President Trump.  NPR concluded its article by stating, "Some witnesses said Sicknick had been struck with a fire extinguisher. He died the following day from his injuries."  NPR bought the meme, sold it, and got it wrong. The meme--that Sicknick was a victim of a tragedy stimulated by Trump held in place long enough to be firmly established in public opinion, and the lie of how Sicknick died furthered the move to a Second Impeachment of Trump.  Then, on April 20,  2021, this headline was posted by CBS News:  "Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes after defending Capitol on January 6, medical examiner says". By then, though, the meme that the officer died as a result of the Orange Man's words was firmly entrenched.   Back on February 15,  2021, National Review (NR) scooped CBS--by two months--with this headline: "The Times Corrects the Record on Officer Sicknick's Death, Sort Of".  The meaning of "Sort Of" is clear in the NR article. 
"A few days ago, the New York Times quietly 'updated' its report, published over a month earlier, asserting that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick had been killed by being struck with a fire extinguisher during the January 6 riot. According to the update, 'new information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.' As I detailed in a column last week, what the Times calls 'new information' actually began emerging the same day the paper filed its January 8 report.  That report was (and still is) entitled, 'Capitol Police Officer Dies from Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage.' It was not the only such Times report from that day. There was another, entitled, 'He Dreamed of Being a Police Officer, Then Was Killed by a Pro-Trump Mob'". 

The longer a fake meme is maintained, the deeper entrenched it becomes in the collective mind of the public

The Lesson: The longer a fake meme is maintained, the deeper entrenched it becomes in the collective mind of the public.  Democrats know how to use death to their political advantage.  And so did the German Nazi Party (1933-1945).  (Top Right) Horst Wessel (1907-1930) became a recognized martyr for the Nazi Socialist Movement.  When the Nazis confiscated the Berlin headquarters of the Communist Party, they renamed it the Horst Wessel House.  In his 1930 eulogy for Nazi 'Martyr' Horst Wessel, Goebbels said that Wessel would be as he always had been, someone "with a smile of youth". (Burning the Reichstag," Benjamin Carter Hett, 2015, p.41)     Allegedly, Wessel was killed in his apartment by Albrecht Hohler. It happened after Wessel's landlady complained that Wessel was refusing to pay his rent. Hohler, a Communist street thug, was sentenced to six years in prison. When the Nazis came into power, Hohler was murdered.  (Hitler 1889-1936 Hubris, Ian Kershaw, 1998, p.347) In his 2004 book, The Coming Of The Third Reich, Richard Evans offered more detail concerning the circumstances of Wessel's death: "Wessel's landlady, the widow of a Communist, went to a tavern in the area on 14 January 1930 to ask help in dealing with her tenant who, she said, had not only refused to pay rent for his live-in girlfriend but had also responded to the landlady's demands by threatening her with violence." (pp.266-267)  In his 1960 book, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, William Shirer described Wessel as the son of a Protestant minister, who had forsaken his family and his university studies, and moved in the world of the paramilitary groups that flourished after the end of World War I as the Free Corps Movement. He lived in a slum with a former prostitute while he devoted his life to fighting for Nazism. 


Burning the Reichstag

In Burning the Reichstag (p.47f) Hett writes that Wessel "was the leader of S.A. Storm 5 in the rough Berlin neighborhood of Friedrichshain. Despite his youth he had passed through all the typical stations of a Berlin stormtrooper: The Viking League, the Schwarze Reichswehr (literally 'black army), [and] the underground armed forces that some German officers maintained in the 1920's in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles".   Shirer wrote, "He left behind a song whose words and tune he had composed. This was the Horst Wessel song, which soon became the official song of the Nazi party and later the second official anthem--after 'Deutschland über Alles'--of the Third Reich. Horst Wessel himself, thanks to Dr. Goebbels' skillful propaganda, became one of the great hero legends of the movement, hailed as a pure idealist who has given his life for the cause." (p.147)    Wessel died on 23 February 1930, after a mortal head wound. Historian Richard Evans describes Wessel's extended eulogy: "Wessel was hardly cold in his grave before Goebbels began work on blowing his memory into a full-scale cult. Innumerable articles in the Nazi press all over the country praised him as a 'martyr for the Third Reich'. A solemn funeral procession was staged--it would have been much bigger but for police restrictions on its size--and watched, so Goebbels claimed, by up to 30,000 people lining the streets on the way to the church." (p.267)  At his graveside, "Goebbels praised Wessel in terms that deliberately recalled Christ's sacrifice for human kind--'Through sacrifice to redemption. Wherever Germany is, you are there, too, Horst Wessel!" (Evans, p. 268) Any of that from the early 1930s sound familiar today? A version of the Horst Wessel song plays here. You've probably heard it in a Hollywood World War II movie, or two. 

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Lee Cary -- Bio and Archives Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.

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