15 Disturbing Similarities Between the USA Now & Nazi Germany Then


  1. The heavy militarization of the police, which the Nazis effectively did in the early years of their rule, absorbing the local police (Polizei Bewachen) into the SS/Gestapo the latter being home of the first SWAT teams as we know them today--organized to conducted house to house sweeps of privately owned arms).

  2. Use of heavily armed "special militias" (SA & SS then, BATF, FBI, IRS now) to get around prohibitions against using troops or intelligence agencies domestically against US citizens.

  3. Early elimination of all serious political opponents in the upper levels of the    government bureaucracy. (Hitler's purging of the diplomatic and civil service and their replacement with Nazi party members and replacing independent-minded military leaders with yes-men, Clinton's firing of all US attorneys early on and replacing independent-minded military leaders with yes men.)

  4.The heavy regulation, taxation and indirect control of business and finance by the government--those regulations rewarding those firms that "go along politically" and brutally squashing those that don't.

  5. Extensive and endless use of negative propaganda to smear and demonize certain groups in that society (Jews, Slavs, Gypsies then, conservatives, militias, anti-abortion supporters now). Use of secret police to terrorize or
silence opponents.

  6. Use of high-profile "terrorist" incidents (Reichstag fire and Gleiwitz radio station bombing then, Waco, OKC Murrah Bldg. now to justify unconstitutional expansion of federal police power or even aggressive warfare)

  7. Gradual elimination of private arms ownership.

  8. Prominence of radical environmental and public health elements in the government.  (Hitler was a vegetarian who called hunting "green Freemasonry" while Heinrich Himmler was one of the earliest "animal rights activists.")
The Nazis were some of the earliest "greens" and rabid anti-smoking activists, heavily punishing even actions like smoking in public.

  9. High popularity of "public health" measures like abortion and euthanasia tacitly approved of by the government.

 10. Federalized "youth service programs." (Hitler Youth then, Americorps now.) Use of schoolchildren to inform on peers and parents (the WAVE and DARE programs in schools today.)

 11. Appalling abuse of executive power. Hitler railroaded through a cowed Reichstag (just like a cowed Congress today) the Enabling Act, giving him dictatorial powers that were far beyond that of Chancellor--and the 1920
Weimar Constitution - under which he ruled with until his death. The Reichstag was all but ignored as Hitler freely exercised political power directly (Fuehrer Befehle {Leader Orders} then, Executive Orders now).

 12. Misuse of the military in aggressive attacks on or intervention in foreign nations that for whatever reason angered or displeased the Fuehrer and his cronies or saw political or economic opportunity in them (Yugoslavia then, Yugoslavia, Haiti and Iraq now).

 13. Dangerously aggressive diplomatic ineptitude by second rate lackeys (Joachim von Ribbentrop then, Madeleine Albright now.)

 14. Freely making common cause with other dictatorships for whatever reason convenient for the ruler at the time. (Nazi-Soviet & Tripartite Pacts then, cozying up to Red China, North Korea and Cuba now.)

 15. Co-optation of labor unions, making them financial and political arms of the party.  (Nazi Labor Front then, AFL-CIO, via its compulsory dues used as political cash cows for the Democrats now.)