June 24, 1933
Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Prussia.

“The Nazi government of Prussia, the largest state government in Germany, bans Jehovah's Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to make the "Heil Hitler" greeting and, beginning in 1935, to serve in the German army.”
“The Nazis begin mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1936. Many Witnesses are imprisoned in concentration camps, and they are represented in nearly every major camp.”
“Generally, Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to renounce their convictions, even though they could obtain release from the camps by signing a declaration renouncing their beliefs.”
June 28, 1935
Nazis toughen law against homosexuality
“The Nazis persecuted German male homosexuals, whose sexual orientation was considered a hindrance to the preservation of the German nation.”
“On June 28, 1935, the Nazi state toughens Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, making even friendships between male homosexuals a criminal offense. "Chronic" homosexuals are deported to jails and prisons; some are later remanded to the camps.”
“Between 5,000 and 15,000 homosexuals, mostly German or Austrian, were imprisoned in concentration camps, where they had to wear a pink triangular patch marking them as homosexuals.”
August 18, 1944
Communist Party leader executed in Buchenwald
“Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist party since 1925 and one-time candidate for the German presidency, is executed in the Buchenwald camp.”
“He is killed by his SS guards during an air raid on a nearby factory. Thaelmann had been arrested after the fire that destroyed the Reichstag (German parliament) building in 1933.”
“He spent more almost 12 years in the camps. Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists were among the first groups persecuted by the Nazis.”
President Donald Trump is identifying groups he dislikes as enemies of the state. He is doing it at a far faster pace than Adolph Hitler. Wake the fuck up, y’all.
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