Modern History Sourcebook: The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/MOD/25points.html

<snip>3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.

4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.

5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.

6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, office-holding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.

7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.

8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.

[mike_c]

1. might I also recommend...

...the fourteen defining characteristics of facism. Always fascinating reading in our bright new age of homeland defense: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/14_Characteristics_Fascism.html

[Ian David]

2. Here's what Democrats need to do...

they need to trick the Republicans into inadvertently plagiarizing Hitler when the GOP writes their legislation.

And then, when Orin Hatch reads his proposed amendment, "...We demand that America be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the United States."

And then, Senator Kennedy can take the floor, and say, "I can not believe that the Senator from Utah has the audacity to pepper his proposed amendment with quotes taken verbatim from Adolf Hitler himself. Has the senator from Utah finally dropped even the pretense of decency?"

[C_U_L8R]

13. You don't need to trick the Republicans

they're doing just fine imitating Hitler on their owm

[countryjake]

3. Since this has dropped like a lead balloon...

mind if I stick this in here?

FUSANG: THE CHINESE WHO BUILT AMERICA: THE CHINESE RAILROAD MEN
http://cprr.org/Museum/Fusang.html

REPORT OF THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
FEBRUARY 27, 1877.
44TH CONGRESS, 2d Session. SENATE. REPORT No. 689.
http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese_Immigration.html

In reading that testimony to the Senate committee, the similarities of some of the reasons for blocking further immigration bear a striking resemblance to the discussions that are going on today.

We've come a long way, eh?

[Karenina]

4. Running in circles...

[NNN0LHI]

6. I was thinking about the men who built our railroads just yesterday

I had a pretty good idea how they were treated, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for the links.

Don

[countryjake]

7. Instances of scapegoating & racism for political advantage...

are old-hat tactics in our government.

Since those links focus on the railroad, here's one which gives the conclusion to that Senate Hearing and talks about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Chinese Exclusion Extension Act of 1904:

http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/

[EFerrari]

9. I visited the holding facility on our nearby Angel Island.

It was a detention center mostly for Asian women.

There is graffiti all over the walls. Names and dates so the families of these women could track them -- when they were detained.

[formercia]

15. Speaking of the railroads

Fearless leader's great Grandfather ran Buckeye Steel for John D. Rockefeller. They made railroad rolling stock as well as other things...

http://www.scripophily.net/bucsteelcasc1.html

[loyalsister]

5. That was based on American Eugenics

imported from the U.S. Mainly our practice was "negative eugenics." Sterilizing people who experts deemed should not reproduce without their consent. It was also encouraged that people with good genes, the "nordic superior race," in our case should reproduce as much as possible.
Our anti-immigration laws were in place and practice long before that.
First we applied eugenics to disabled. It was all "legitimized" in the name of compassion.
Scientists made the claim that immigrants were more likely to pollute the gene pool with disease, thus should be kept out. We closed the ports.
We took it a step further and developed tests to help weed out undesirables based on "moral characteristics."
The final solution in the U.S. was using the science of "eugenics" for a full on attack on race.
It was then that they began to expand the marriage restriction laws that were in place for the disabled and immigrants to Blacks and Native Americans.
The history is chilling. There actually was talk of euthanasia for people with disabilities.

Henry Long, who maintained the Eugenics Records Office created a complex "pedigree catalogue system" that included a complex catalogueing system of Jewish people based on their regional origin.

There is also documentation of how leaders of the eugenics movement visited Europe. Our ideas caught on first in England, then in Germany. One member suggested that "Hitler was getting ahead of us."

[Joanne98]

8. Sounds like the Mexican goverment to me!

[EFerrari]

10. Really? I was unaware that the Mexican government expelled

people in that way. In fact, there are large colonies of retired Americans there.

I'd like to learn more. Can you point me to a good source?

[Gabi Hayes]

11. only the beginning.....more parallels here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x775739

[radio4progressives]

12. This is the point i tried to raise earlier..

racism, and nationalism was used to fuel the flames of racial hatred and scapegoating for Germany's economic problems and depresssion (which actually the whole world was suffering)..

I'm afraid that history is about to repeat itself once again unless we force people to get a fucking grip on this now and stop inflaming bigotry and blaming Mexicans for the Economic Policies that the UNITED STATES implmented vis a vis slave labor policies and NAFTA ...

[EFerrari]

14. Don't forget the manipulation of their governments to suit

US "needs". Assasinations of progressive leaders, death squads and etc.