The perception of Nazi Germany as a place where one had to present papers arbitrarily is largely a result of the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws that categorised Germans according to their 'racial makeup'.

Identification cards were subsequently reissued clearly marking Jews as such...
At the same time, the Nazi regime weakened vaccine laws against smallpox and other diseases so much as to make them non-binding.

Indeed, even before the Nazis came to power, some of their supporters opined that disease would do good to remove the 'weak' from society.
Hitler, in his 'Table Talks', had this to say about compulsory vaccination - he absolutely forbid them to begin to those not sufficiently 'German' - especially in the colonies.
Funnily enough, vaccine passports aren't very 'Nazi' at all.

What *is* similar to Nazi legislation are laws stripping Britons of citizenship based on their background.

I wonder who just supported that?

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7 Dec
Cynical marketing campaign or genius act of solidarity. With the hashtag #zusammengegencorona, major German brands are joining the vaccination drive. Here's some favourites... Image
First, Swabian chocolate manufacturer @ritter_sport go with the slogans 'First a prick, then crunchy' and 'Square. Practical. Vaccinated.' Image
Next, @eBay_KA where everyone buys and sells goods, goes with 'Vaccination: Free. Cheap. Local' Image
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6 Dec
George Washington mandated smallpox innoculations for all Continental Army soldiers.
In 1853, the Vaccination Act made vaccination against Smallpox for children mandatory in the UK. Fines were issued for non-compliance.
In 1874, Germany passed a law mandating Smallpox vaccination. By the end of the century, the disease was almost eradicated in the country.
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4 Dec
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'.
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2 Dec
Big news out of Germany today.

Unvaccinated Germans will be barred from:
🔴 Culture & leisure facilities
🔴 Non essential retail

Unvaccinated may only meet with their own household & 2 people from another household - indoors & outdoors. 🫂
Capacity for events is being limited:
🏞️ Outdoors - 15,000
🏚️ Indoors - 5,000

Masks to be worn in schools across all grades. 😷🏫

Clubs & discos to be shut in areas with more than 350 cases per 100,000.🍸🕺
The sale of fireworks will be banned for New Year's Eve to prevent crowds and keep hospital beds free. 🎆

Bundestag to vote on vaccination mandate, with possible start February 2022. 💉
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4 Nov
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.
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13 Oct
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
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