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In 1936, the Nazis murdered my mother's first husband, Friedrich Hublitz, a Berlin high school principal, because he refused to allow Hitler-Youth activities in his school. The Nazis installed a Hitler-Youth organizer to succeed Hublitz as HS principal.

Friedrich Hublitz left behind my mother, a 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son. My mother, a blond and blue-eyed Finnish-Swede, would soon be forced to flee Germany to escape being "farmed out" to Nazi officials as part of their “Lebensborn” Aryan-breeding program!

Friedrich Hublitz was a dedicated educator, a German hero, a WW I veteran pilot, who authored a book about his WW I air reconnaissance missions, for which Hermann Göring wrote the intro... But none of that mattered to the Nazis, who were consolidating their power and institutionalizing their hate-filled, murderous, fascist, master-race mission, by purging all opposition, including from within their own SA leadership in 1934. ... All this to say that no one--not even these cowardly oligarchs-- will be spared a Trump/ Vance/ Musk/ Miller authoritarian regime's wanton and capricious vengeance if and whenever they deem it useful and/or necessary.

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There should be a compilation made of history like this to try and reach every day people. Along with authoritarian stories from Communist Russian times.

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