Ok, let's play this game. Let's compare the treatment of German Jews in the 1930s to those Germans who choose not get vaccinated in 2021.
First, in 1934, the Nazis forbade Jews from most university courses.
Jews were also discharged from the armed forces.
There are no restrictions on tertiary study, and as of November, the vaccine still wasn't mandatory for the Bundeswehr.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Race Laws forbade Jews from marrying other Germans, and stripped them of their most basic civil rights.
Today, anyone unvaccinated can marry who they wish at the Standesamt, as long as they wear a mask. Their rights are also protected by the 'Grundgesetz'.
In 1936, Jewish students could no longer attend school. In 2021, the unvaccinated may - no child is vaccinated.
Jews also had any state benefits stopped. In 2021, there is nothing tying vaccination status to Hartz IV - the German benefit system.
German Jews also lost the right to vote in 1936.
Unvaccinated Germans just took part in the Bundeswahl - the Federal election. A *not insignificant* number of them in the former East Germany voted for the AfD - a party whose members sought to *downplay* Nazi persecutions.
German Jews couldn't go to parks, zoos or pools as of 1936 too. A champion swimmer near where I live killed himself as a consequence.
In 2021, you need to be vaccinated or recovered to go to these places. Temporarily. Once it's voted on.
In 1938, Jews had to get special identity cards, were forbidden from travel, had to change their names to include 'Sarah' or 'Israel' and in November, were rounded up in their thousands and beaten.
In 2021, those engaging in violence were 'Querdenker' during several protests.
At the moment, Germams are being asked to vaccinate.
There may be a mandate, but the odds of that being enforced with quite the brutality of the SA are slim to none.
Yes, they are prevented from entering certain spaces, but that's a pandemic response CENTURIES old.
Anyone equating the dehumanization, persecution and physical violence against German Jews with the absolute bare minimum of pandemic responses is not only fantastically misinformed, but morally bankrupt.
It demonstrates a pomposity and selfishness breaktaking to behold.
Every time you post an 'unvaccinated' Judensterne or make a sly crack about the Germans repeating the past, you dishonour the memory of a people who had no recourse, no choice, no possibility of holding on in their own land.
You only show yourself to be a pampered, selfish fool.
Furthermore, you're also doing the work of groups and individuals who share some of the same political positions as the actual historical Nazis, by creating this false equivalence. /FIN
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Having been in the Burg Hohenzollern region this week, I wanted to know what one of the chief dynasties of Europe is up to these days.
Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern, is the heir to the deposed Romanian throne, and... saxophonist and vocalist for the band, 'Royal Groovin''...
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, spends his time managing his own brewery, 'Preussens', and repeatedly suing various state governments and the federal government, for the return of all the possessions the last Kaiser, Wilhelm II, had to give upon abdication.
Gotta say, I'm Team Prince Hohenzollern, all the way. Georg Friedrich's a bit of a douche.
Here's a wild local Halloween story that I've alluded to before, but never articulated in full.
In October 1600, Jakob von Validlingen had ended work after hearing cases in Geradstetten, as the local judge or 'Obervogt' of the area.
As it happened, he ran into a friend... /1
Konrad von Degenfeld was the local lord, and had been to a wedding. Both Jakob and Konrad were, not to put too fine a point on it, fond of a drink, and so retired to a local house to neck a few frothy ales and dance a jig. /2
The night progressed, many tankards of ale and fine local wine were drunk and both nded the night quite plastered.
Not plastered enough, however, that Jakob forgot his bedtime routine - leaving his weapon somewhere far away from his bed, and taking a room by himself. /3
There's a special kind of ignorance that comes with anti-vaxxers or anti-lockdown types, a real misunderstanding of the world around them that leads them to frame everything as evidence of creeping totalitarianism.
Quarantine facilities have been in Oz since colonization.
Prior to 1832, vessels arriving in Sydney reporting disease would be quarantined off North Head, until a purpose built station was created in 1832.
For over one hundred years, migrant ships docked at the Sydney quarantine station and offloaded those with infectious diseases. They were confined there until they recovered, then released.
So, in my amateur explorations into the 'Dark Age' Alamanni peoples of Southern Germany, I think I've found the first metalhead in history.
No, wait, hear me out...
In 2001, during building of an underground carpark in Trossingen, on the south-eastern edge of the Black Forest, a grave was found. It dated from the sixth century and contained the body of a man, and associated grave goods.
Contained in the 'death bed' along with the body of the man, was a lyre and a wooden flask.
Today, I want to talk about a place I can never go to.
Today, it's under a bypass that runs between Aalen and Nordlingen, here in Southern Germany.
It still bears the name given to it by those who first settled there - Lauchheim.
That's how it appeared 1500 years ago.
The people who came to live there were the Alamanni - a group of tribes who broke through the Limes (the Roman border wall spanning modern Germany) from the north and settled modern-day Southern Germany, the Alsace and northern Switzerland.
Some of these tribespeople, who arrived in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, settled near modern-day Lauchheim, at a place called Mittelhofen.
There, they built a village with farms, a mill, a smith, etc - like that pictured below (a modern reconstruction, elsewhere).