"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
07/11/2017 at 22:25 • Filed to: SCHEIßE!!
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"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
07/11/2017 at 22:25 • Filed to: SCHEIßE!! | 0
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This topic had a different slant, but I swear Kinja would not post the link. Can you think of a reason why Kinja doesn’t like this link? I’ll give you a hint: Kinja is Hitler.
Do you want to read about the Holocaust? Gurl, you know you do.
Ich steh’ im Regen und warte auf Dich, auf Dich
Auf allen Wegen erwart’ ich nur Dich, immer nur Dich
Der Zeiger der Kirchturmuhr rückt von Strich zu Strich,
ach, wo bleibst Du denn nur?
Denkst nicht mehr an mich?
Und ich steh’ im Regen und warte auf Dich, auf Dich
Immer warten nur die Menschen, die wirklich lieben
Kommst Du noch nicht? Wie die fallenden Tropfen am Ärmel zerstieben
Ich steh’ im Regen und warte auf Dich, auf Dich
Auf allen Wegen erwart’ ich nur Dich, immer nur Dich
Der Zeiger der Kirchturmuhr rückt von Strich zu Strich,
ach, wo bleibst Du denn nur?
Denkst nicht mehr an mich?
Und ich steh’ im Regen und warte auf Dich, auf Dich
That song was written in Germany in 1937. What else happened in 1937 in Germany?
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-Diary-1933-1941/dp/0375753788
You have to connect those two, because if you put them on one line, Kinja makes the link disappear from the editor. Ask yourself: Does it surprise you that Kinja is pro-Nazi?
I’m quite fascinated by Weimar Germany. 1937 was well past, but still. There’s something quite romantic about this idea that everything was crumbling, but so how this continued on.
Weirdly, I think this song perfectly encapsulates this period, despite being American and written by a Jew:
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But, along those lines, if you we’re to stay very on topic, you’re stuck with Leonard Cohen, which is sort of more direct in terms of comparison
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 22:33 |
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As an aside: Say you were to connect that link and buy that book, what would you see? You’d see the utter banality of evil. It’s a strange thing. Starting in 1933, it’s very minor things. Jews not being able to administer exams to Germans, not being able to obtain loans. The remarkable thing about those diaries is how indignities slowly grow from mundane things to people being murdered en masse.
WilliamsSW
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 22:41 |
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I fear that people forget the banality of evil (good turn of a phrase btw), which leads to history repeating itself. Sigh...
I’m interested in the book but wtf with Gizmodo getting a commission?
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 22:43 |
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“Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone,
Let me feel you moving, like they do in Babylon”
That’s the sort of shit that haunts you, even when some asshole president is agitating against Muslims and fuck up klansmen are protesting.
It’s political and beneath the jump, so whatever. This country is taking an ugly turn.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> WilliamsSW
07/11/2017 at 22:52 |
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I can highly recommend it, despite the commission thing. It’s one thing to see the end result, but that book is entirely different.
In the second volume, written in the 40s, there’s this entry that goes something like “On a bus, the driver told me that he thought this would pass. It’s things like this that keep my faith in humanity.”
With hindsight, it’s terrifying. It starts with the most mundane things and people leaving the country for one reason or another and it escalates so very quickly.
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WilliamsSW
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 23:05 |
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Eh, I was kidding about the commission but it’s sorta weird.
This feels like it will be a very painful read in these times, but too important to not read.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> WilliamsSW
07/11/2017 at 23:13 |
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Even when I see “Kinja deals” that I’m interested in, I buy through incognito, because I hate that redirect that ever link goes through (if you have a very shitty connection, you’ll see it pop up on every link before redirecting to the link).
But, yeah, that book is a bitch, but it’s definitely worth it. If nothing else, there’s a perverse aspect to knowing how to connect the dots when the author is struggling to figure out what’s going on.
It’s weird because it’s not all Kristal Nacht. Suddenly things just change and the author can’t quite figure out why everyone is singing the Horst Wessel song.
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WilliamsSW
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 23:18 |
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I’m just enough of an ass that I’ll go to amazon tomorrow and search the title on my own and buy it that way as long as it’s not more $.
The idea of people going about their daily lives while this evil is building is fascinating to me - looking for signs, I guess...
Viggen
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/11/2017 at 23:36 |
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If I hadn’t completed my Prime Day shopping, I’d likely have purchased the book. WWII has always been my focus of history. Books about or by civilians and the common enlisted soldier always catch my eye (my purchase today was a book written by a U-boat sailor). Another look into life in the Reich would be interesting yet terrifying. When I was in middle school, I read a book on the Hitler Youth and at the time I was in Civil Air Patrol. Shuddered when I was seeing similarities.
AuthiCooper1300
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/12/2017 at 07:31 |
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Interesting. I have never related Cohen’s song
specifically
to the Shoah, even after watching the video years ago.
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AuthiCooper1300
> WilliamsSW
07/12/2017 at 07:33 |
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If you really want to know about the banality of evil - a sort of set-phrase to describe Nazism nowadays – you should also have a look at Hannah’s Arendt book of the same title.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Honeybunchesofgoats
07/12/2017 at 08:01 |
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Who wouldn’t be fascinated by the period of the Republic of Weimar? There were so many things going on at the same time on so many levels, not just politics, and not all bad, particularly in the arts.
I once saw a testimony of a Jewish guy who at the time lived in a little village by the Baltic Sea. One day the idiot from Linz came for a big rally - and this guy’s father later saw his best friends marching along the main street with AH and his chums. That night father told his family they were all immediately moving to Berlin, reasoning (quite correctly) that it was going to be easier to slip unnoticed there, or at least not be an obvious target. Later the whole family left Germany, little by little. Some members of his extended familiy in the area were not so lucky, needless to say.
Cabaret
(the film) shows quite a lot of how the horror was insiduosly becoming part of everyday life. I find it quite insightful: it brilliantly showed, for example how the
junkers
thought they were manipulating the Nazis (and not the other way round).
A well-meaning relative gave me Klemperer’s diaries... in German. They have stayed in my bookshelf for a couple of years now, but the time will come when armed with a good dictionary and plenty of time I will deal with them.
As interesting as the Weimar period is Vienna’s pre WW1 years. In more or less the same area you had Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky and Freud living quite close to each other.