INFEST: The Ugly Nazi History of Trump's Chosen Verb About Immigrants.

[LongTomH]

From Forward.com: https://forward.com/culture/403526/infest-the-ugly-nazi-history-of-trumps-chosen-verb-about-immigrants/:

When President Trump characterized immigrants as “animals,” some people waved it away, claiming he was only referring to gang members. But today’s use of “infest” in connection to human beings is impossible to ignore. The President’s tweet that immigrants will “infest our Country” includes an alarming verb choice for anyone with knowledge of history.

Characterizing people as vermin has historically been a precursor to murder and genocide. The Nazis built on centuries-old hatred of Jews as carriers of disease in a film titled “Der Ewige Jude,” or “The Eternal Jew.” As the U.S. Holocaust Museum notes on its website, in a section helpfully titled “Defining the Enemy”:

One of the film’s most notorious sequences compares Jews to rats that carry contagion, flood the continent, and devour precious resources.

What is happening now is “defining the enemy. Substitute “continent” for “Country,” capitalized, and you get the picture. The roots of the particular word “infest” are also telling. The English word comes from the French infester or Latin infestare ‘assail’, from infestus ‘hostile’. So yes, it’s a word rooted in hostility.

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For anyone familiar with Nazi history — the exhibit of “Degenerate Art,” the film “The Eternal Jew” and the persistent campaign to paint Jews as vermin or animals, and certainly not human—the word “infest” is not only remarkable, but terrifying.

[donkeypoofed]

1. The Holocaust started with words !

Spanky started it the day he announced his bid, really.

[angstlessk]

2. Let's not forget the modern atrocity based on 'words' from radio

Rwanda!

Deplorable's are probably willing?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Trump is an acolyte of the Third Reich

He's studied their methods for years... their books sit at his bedside.
And Trumps' words have definite purpose. And his actions too.
He is orchestrating an ultimate takeover for himself and the rightwing.
It's no joke.

[Bradshaw3]

4. I was just going to post this

drumpf knows exactly what he's doing, just as hitler did. They were both failures at everything, except knowing how to manipulate the ignorant masses and unleash hatred for what they perceive as "the other."

In the past Hitler comparisons were oftne hyperbole. This is not and people including the media need to wake up to that fact.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[COLGATE4]

6. Here's a clip from "The Eternal Jew" which illustrates

the Nazis comparing Jews to rats (starts about 3:40)

[appalachiablue]

7. FILM, 'THE ETERNAL JEW'; title in German, 'Der Ewige Jude' released 1940 Germany.

Wiki Excerpts: The Eternal Jew is a 1940 antisemitic German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The film's initial German title is Der Ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore. At the insistence of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, the film was directed by Fritz Hippler. With a screenplay credited to Eberhard Taubert, the film consists of feature and documentary footage combined with materials filmed shortly after the Nazi occupation of Poland. At this time, Poland's Jewish population was about three million, roughly ten percent of the total population.



- Ghetto Children

Hitler and Goebbels believed that film was a vital tool for molding public opinion. The Nazis first established a film department in 1930 and Goebbels had taken a personal interest in the use of film to promote the Nazi philosophy and agenda. Soon after the Nazi takeover, Goebbels insisted in speeches that the role of the German cinema was to serve as the "vanguard of the Nazi military".

Richard Barsam writes the film's "essential contrast is between myths and stereotypes of Jews and the Nazi ideal of a 'master race,' between the alleged inferiority of the Jews and the superiority of the Germans." According to Stephen Fritz, Goebbels' intent was to create a film that would serve as "both a demonstration of the parasitical nature of the Jews and a justification for drastic measures against them."

Maria Tatar writes that the Nazis were able to use Hippler's film to "position the victims of their genocidal project as dangerous aggressors who had to be exterminated." Similarly, Barsam describes the film as arguing that "Jews are criminals;... they have no soul;... they are different in every way;... killing them is not a crime, but a necessity—just as killing rats is a necessity to preserve health and cleanliness."

Hitler's Reichstag speech, Hitler giving a speech to the Reichstag at the Krolloper



The film concludes with footage of Hitler's speech in the Reichstag in which he proclaims: "If international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will not be Bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!" The film ends with images of SA troops on parade. MORE, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Jew_(1940_film)

US Holocaust Memorial Museum articles, https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008228