When I first came to Hollywood in the early 80s, by happenstance I met the writer-director Billy Wilder and managed somehow to convince him of my own talent as a writer, and thus I had the opportunity to become friends. As an historian as well as a screewriter, I was interested in what he had to say about prewar Germany and the rise of the Nazis, having been a fairly major player in Berlin's creative community. He told me that he had recognized the Nazis for the threat they were in 1928, when he personally witnessed two SA scum attack an elderly Jew in the the street, and that none of the passers-by had a negative reaction - or any reaction - to that. Over the next 4 years, as he put it, "I became labeled by my friends a crank on the Nazis." All his creative friends told him the Nazis were clowns to be laughed at. The night Hitler was called to the presidential palace and offered the chancellorship, he packed everything he owned in a steamer trunk, called a cab, and went to the Berlin train station, where he bought a one-way ticket on the Paris Express. I'll never forget his last words on the subject: "When I returned twelve years later, all my friends who told me the Nazis were clowns, were dead; killed by the clowns."
I think it is hard to see that some things are really happening. For instance, it has taken 10 years for most of the people I know to see Trump and MAGA as the fascist threat they are, and even with what's going on now, people have difficulty with that. It's so foreign to the rest of our experience and beliefs. I've studied the fascist threat, and saw it before Trump in the GOP. But that doesn't make it easier to keep up with the speed by which things are happening now, and to just wrap my head around the fact they really are doing what they are doing. In front of us.
The attack upon the synagogue was outrageous and there is no possible justification. However it was entirely inevitable. The government has tolerated, enabled untrammelled antisemitism on our streets under the cloak of peaceful protest. We must see a volte face in attitude and shameful tolerance for this antisemitism on our streets. The forces of law and order must descend upon the antisemites like the avenging angels. A piece of advice Katja, don’t listen to ‘phone ins, they are a blight on humanity. Sobering read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Along with 30yrs+ of a virtually uninvestigated pogrom of the vilest sexual crimes, the untrammeled import of undocumented fighting age men (and their families), the tolerance of 85 Sharia courts and the persecution of Brits who object to what has happened
…….the shameless recognition of Palestine - which has no legal foundation - by Starmer, Carney and Albanese are all signs that the globalists are in league with Islam……
…...young British girls and now the Jewish community are just the first casualties.
If the thought of this makes people ‘uncomfortable’, so be it - none of it is imagined, and the MSM are not doing their job.
This religious hatred will unfortunately remain with us , I just don’t get the hatred towards the Jewish population, butcher by trade I’ve worked for two kosher meat plants in my career and I’ve found the Jewish owners extremely good business men , very astute and also on occasions difficult, that’s not a criticism it’s my experience. I also found them quite welcoming, what I cannot fathom out is that when I read any of my books on history , inevitably there are reports of pograms , Jews being chased out of their homes etc etc , before we even get to the holocaust, I just don’t understand the actual hatred they have towards them , they have my utmost respect for wanting to follow their beliefs and religion, I say that as an non believer in any faiths , but if that’s their way of life that’s not my business, life’s too short for all this hatred
When I first came to Hollywood in the early 80s, by happenstance I met the writer-director Billy Wilder and managed somehow to convince him of my own talent as a writer, and thus I had the opportunity to become friends. As an historian as well as a screewriter, I was interested in what he had to say about prewar Germany and the rise of the Nazis, having been a fairly major player in Berlin's creative community. He told me that he had recognized the Nazis for the threat they were in 1928, when he personally witnessed two SA scum attack an elderly Jew in the the street, and that none of the passers-by had a negative reaction - or any reaction - to that. Over the next 4 years, as he put it, "I became labeled by my friends a crank on the Nazis." All his creative friends told him the Nazis were clowns to be laughed at. The night Hitler was called to the presidential palace and offered the chancellorship, he packed everything he owned in a steamer trunk, called a cab, and went to the Berlin train station, where he bought a one-way ticket on the Paris Express. I'll never forget his last words on the subject: "When I returned twelve years later, all my friends who told me the Nazis were clowns, were dead; killed by the clowns."
I think it is hard to see that some things are really happening. For instance, it has taken 10 years for most of the people I know to see Trump and MAGA as the fascist threat they are, and even with what's going on now, people have difficulty with that. It's so foreign to the rest of our experience and beliefs. I've studied the fascist threat, and saw it before Trump in the GOP. But that doesn't make it easier to keep up with the speed by which things are happening now, and to just wrap my head around the fact they really are doing what they are doing. In front of us.
The attack upon the synagogue was outrageous and there is no possible justification. However it was entirely inevitable. The government has tolerated, enabled untrammelled antisemitism on our streets under the cloak of peaceful protest. We must see a volte face in attitude and shameful tolerance for this antisemitism on our streets. The forces of law and order must descend upon the antisemites like the avenging angels. A piece of advice Katja, don’t listen to ‘phone ins, they are a blight on humanity. Sobering read with my Sunday morning coffee.
Phone ins just like the vast majority of social media platforms are becoming v cancerous
Well put. Antisemitism is pervasive and even acceptable in the United Nations.
Along with 30yrs+ of a virtually uninvestigated pogrom of the vilest sexual crimes, the untrammeled import of undocumented fighting age men (and their families), the tolerance of 85 Sharia courts and the persecution of Brits who object to what has happened
…….the shameless recognition of Palestine - which has no legal foundation - by Starmer, Carney and Albanese are all signs that the globalists are in league with Islam……
…...young British girls and now the Jewish community are just the first casualties.
If the thought of this makes people ‘uncomfortable’, so be it - none of it is imagined, and the MSM are not doing their job.
This religious hatred will unfortunately remain with us , I just don’t get the hatred towards the Jewish population, butcher by trade I’ve worked for two kosher meat plants in my career and I’ve found the Jewish owners extremely good business men , very astute and also on occasions difficult, that’s not a criticism it’s my experience. I also found them quite welcoming, what I cannot fathom out is that when I read any of my books on history , inevitably there are reports of pograms , Jews being chased out of their homes etc etc , before we even get to the holocaust, I just don’t understand the actual hatred they have towards them , they have my utmost respect for wanting to follow their beliefs and religion, I say that as an non believer in any faiths , but if that’s their way of life that’s not my business, life’s too short for all this hatred