Censorship takes many forms....
In the 1920’s, for over a decade, The Munich Post tried to warn Germany of the dangers of a little man called Adolf Hitler whom the public ignored as nothing but a “hot headed (Community Activist) rabble rouser from Bavaria”. In their reporting, commentary and cartoons, the paper relentlessly cataloged the ideas and criminal underpinnings of a man they insisted would be Germany’s undoing. Much of their criticisms founded in the writings, speeches and criminal actions of the Nazi thugs and party itself that the rest of Germany’s newspapers refused to report.
The Munich Post was a lone voice in the wilderness crying aloud the warnings. The other newspapers in Germany were already beholden to the Nazi Party and to Hitler who had a controlling stake in The Volkischer Beobachter - part of Germany’s mainstream media in whom Hitler remarked had the purpose of giving “ideological clarification and interpretation to current political issues.”
But the Munich Post remained steadfast in opposition to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. For twelve years they focused sustained critical attention on Hitler, from the time he emerged from the beer-halls to take to the streets of Munich in the early 1920s to the massacres and political assassinations that the Nazis carried out against their opponents in the early 1930’s. They were the equivalent of today’s Talk Radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Mark Levin; who were ideologically opposed to a movement they saw as a direct threat to the freedoms of the nation itself. Ultimately the battle between ideologies became more personal and vicious as the Nazis solidified their power and began to purge their opposition.
Hitler called The Munich Post “The poison kitchen” - asserting that the paper did nothing but “cook up poisonous slanders” against the Nazi Party. I cannot help but notice the striking parallels when prominent Democrat leaders in America today refer to Talk Radio as “verbal pornography” engaged in “distorting the truth” about the Democrats and their ideology.
Ultimately, The Munich Post along with any media opposition was taken over and physically destroyed, it’s editors, reports and owners taken to concentration camps and killed. It’s offices were turned over to loyal mobs of Hitler and they were gutted and burned on March 9, 1933.
The last media warning and opposition to Hitler’s plans for Germany, the Jews and Europe was swept away.
History repeats itself, sometimes in strikingly similar fashion.
Hilmar von Campe sees these similarities.
He should know. He lived it.
As a former Hitler Youth, he sees the same warning signs that The Munich Post saw all those years ago, and he now cries aloud a warning to America - and beseeches us to heed what will be our national undoing if we fail to do something now.
From
www.swordattheready.wordpress.com November 11, 2008
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