{"id":57116,"date":"2021-03-15T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57116"},"modified":"2021-03-15T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:47:05","slug":"at-a-certain-point-even-the-gestapo-had-to-stop-cancelling-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57116","title":{"rendered":"At a certain point, even the Gestapo had to stop cancelling people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a certain point, even the Gestapo had to stop cancelling people<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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On April 26, 1933, the interior minister for the German state of Prussia issued a decree creating a new secret state police, or Geheime Staats Polizei, abbreviated: Gestapo.<\/p>\n

The Gestapo was tasked with stamping out all opposition to Germany\u2019s new Chancellor and the party he brought to power one year earlier.<\/p>\n

It operated by collecting tips from ordinary citizens, including even school children. And this network of Gestapo informants changed Germans\u2019 behavior almost overnight.<\/p>\n

Even a joke about the ruling party could land you in a Gestapo interrogation room. Talking politics around your children became a dangerous gamble.<\/p>\n

According to Erik Larson\u2019s book In the Garden of Beasts<\/em>, 37% of denunciations \u201carose not from heartfelt political beliefs, but from private conflicts with the trigger often breathtakingly trivial.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example in one case, a grocery store clerk reported a customer who insisted on receiving the wrong change. The customer was accused of tax fraud.<\/p>\n

Another man lent a banned book to his friend, and was quickly denounced by his friend\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

The new Chancellor\u2014 who encouraged the behavior \u2014 was so shocked by the citizens\u2019 eagerness to rat out their neighbors that he remarked, \u201cWe are living at present in a sea of denunciations and human meanness.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Chancellor, of course, was Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

The secret police didn\u2019t need wire taps in every home or spies on every street corner. They found an army of willing, eager informants in the general population.<\/p>\n

The volume of denunciations was so great, in fact, that the Gestapo actually had to ask people to stop <\/em>reporting political crimes to them, because they were overwhelmed and found it impossible to process them all.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

clubhouse, gestapo, nazi germany, simon black, sovereign man, freedom of speech, cancel culture, facts, fact-checkers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a certain point, even the Gestapo had to stop cancelling people On April 26, 1933, the interior minister for the German state of Prussia issued a decree creating a new secret state police, or Geheime Staats Polizei, abbreviated: Gestapo. The Gestapo was tasked with stamping out all opposition to Germany\u2019s new Chancellor and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}