Reply #39: It's like the Der Nacht und Nebel-Erlaß all over again: [View All]

[bushmeister0]

"I have intentionally NEVER compared Bush to Hitler."

That's right, people are really missing the point when they do. His administration is more like Vlad Putin's Authoritarian Oligarchy.

Speaking of German words and terms: Another one I've been thinking about lately is "Der Nacht- und Nebel-Erlaß." The infamous "Night and Fog" directive signed by Hitler on Dec. 7 1941. This is how it's described at wikipedia:

"Even before the deportation and mass murder of the innocents of Europe, the mentally impaired, the Jews, the Gypsies, and so forth, the Nazis had been dealing severely with political prisoners. Most of the early prisoners were of two sorts: they were either prisoners of belief/political prisoners whom the Nazis deemed in need of "re-education" to Nazi thinking, or resistance leaders in occupied western Europe. Up until the time of the "Night and Fog" decree, prisoners were handled by German soldiers in approximately the same way other countries did: according to national agreements and procedures such as the Geneva Convention. Hitler and his upper level staff, however, made a critical decision not to have to conform to what they considered unnecessary rules. The Third Reich, after all, was not a party to the Geneva Convention, and so observed it only as needed to reduce tensions with other nations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_Fog_prisoner

Sound familiar?