![]() ![]() I doubt that the likes of Roger Keith Packer have ever bothered to get a sense of what Nazism really entailed. Immediately after the war, my father was among the young men forced to dig up the corpses and rebury them in a proper cemetery. Once dead, they were dumped into mass graves. Many of them died of exhaustion and malnutrition. The workers came from a satellite camp that was part of the Dachau concentration camp, many of them Jews. Not far from the town, in the forests, there were the ruins of huge bunker installations where slave laborers were working on assembling fighter planes. I grew up in a small town in southern Bavaria, which was severely damaged by American and British bombers in the last months of the war. As Thomas Edsall has recently put it in the pages of The New York Times, behind the conspiracy theory-inspired assault on the Capitol was the attempt “to engineer the installation in Washington of an ultraright, ethnonationalist crypto-fascist white supremacist political regime.”Īs a German, I know a little bit about this kind of regime. I guess, many among the Confederate flag-waving mob, proudly displaying their allegiance to QAnon and other equally ludicrous conspiracy theories, fundamentally agreed with Packer’s message, even if they probably had no clue about what it entailed. At the same time, politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in general should finally be forced to do useful work rather than living off hard-working, tax-paying (white) Americans. The fact is that within the context of Donald Trump’s promotion of white supremacy and his campaign’s characterization of his opponent as a dangerous socialist, the imprints on Packer’s sweatshirt convey a clear message: The only way to assure the survival of white America is to eradicate all those who threaten its supremacy. I don’t know whether or not Packer was aware of this. JQuery('.search-field').on('input', function() ) ![]()
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