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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(9/9)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... your way to the border or the airport:</p><p><a href="https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privatdozent.co/p/the-great-pu</span><span class="invisible">rge-of-1933-9f0</span></a></p><p>//</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span></p><p>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(8/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... More than 250 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> professors and employees were fired from the University of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. 👉In May, some 20,000 books written by “degenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babelplatz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babelplatz</span></a> ... 👈"</p><p>Read on... On...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span></p><p>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(7/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>... 1933 with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> party’s seizure of control in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> and their passing of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berufsbeamtengesetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berufsbeamtengesetz</span></a> (“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”), certain groups of public employees were dimissed from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> universities. That is, 👉civil servants who did not fit the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> racial or societal ideal had to leave their jobs in...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(5/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>... mathematics was rivaled, if at all, only by Britain (Medawar &amp; Pyke, 2000). Of the 100 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nobel</span></a> Prizes awarded between the years of 1901 and 1932 (the year before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> came to power), 33 had been awarded to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germans</span></a> and/or scientists working in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>...</p><p>... Then, starting in..</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(4/n)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>...The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> (1933)</p><p>👉“If the dismissal of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdolfHitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdolfHitler</span></a>👈</p><p>See the future US in the mirror?</p><p>"Prior to the 1930s, 👉<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> had dominated the natural sciences for more than one hundred and fifty years.👈 Its reputation for excellence in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine... </p><p><a href="https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-great-purge-of-1933-9f0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privatdozent.co/p/the-great-pu</span><span class="invisible">rge-of-1933-9f0</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(3/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>... detained and likely deported. On 19 May 1943, 👉only about 20,000 Jews remained... "👈 1)</p><p>1)<br><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor</span><span class="invisible">y_of_the_Jews_in_Germany</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a><br>(2/n)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmigrateNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmigrateNow</span></a>! </p><p>Even for people not being Jews, the history if the German Jews should be a blood-red warning sign: </p><p>" of the 522,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933, approximately 304,000 emigrated during the first six years of Nazi rule and about 214,000 were left on the eve of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> War II. Of these, 160,000–180,000 were killed as a part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a>... </p><p>...inspection checkpoints, leading to 65 percent of all submerged <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@andrewdessler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andrewdessler</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlignmentOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlignmentOfScience</span></a> 1933/2025<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RememberTiananmenSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RememberTiananmenSquare</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> </p><p>"Critical research will relocate to "👉<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>👈, Europe, and other regions with rational research funding models."</p><p>"... China..."?!?</p><p>👇<br>As the Spanish philosopher and Autor George <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Santayana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Santayana</span></a> said:</p><p>«Los que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo."</p><p>(👉Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.👈) </p><p>Also: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RemberTheManhattanProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RemberTheManhattanProject</span></a>! --Would <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xi</span></a> have been as scrupulous if POTUS?!?</p>