Hitting Close to Home
December 23, 2024
For those who haven’t read it, I strongly recommend I Will Bear Witness, the diary of Victor Klemperer, a Jewish professor in Nazi Germany who lived through the previous world war. In particular, I noted all the restrictions he had to endure:
- He was fired from his job.
- He was denied full pension an “Aryan” would have otherwise qualified for.
- He was denied the right to travel outside his city.
- His bank account was restricted.
- He had to surrender his ready cash and his all gold and silver were confiscated.
- He couldn’t go out after 8:00 pm.
- He couldn’t use public libraries or visit public parks.
- He wouldn’t have been able to marry his “Aryan” wife if they hadn’t already been married prior to the passage of the Nuremberg Laws.
- His sewing machine and typewriter were confiscated.
- He was kicked out of his house.
- He was given reduced rations.
- He was stripped of his driver’s license.
- He couldn’t visit friends or family in an “Aryan” hospital.
- He couldn’t receive medical treatment from an “Aryan” doctor.
- He couldn’t fraternize with or employ “Aryans.”
- He listened as Hitler and the Nazis repeatedly boasted of their intolerance of the Jews.
Sounds horrible, doesn’t it?
Hold that thought for a minute.
Fast forward to present day and substitute “Jew” for “unvaccinated.” Let us summarize many of the restrictions placed on those who challenged their authoritarian government:
- They were fired from their jobs.
- They were denied EI.
- Their bank accounts were frozen.
- They were denied entry into restaurants and sporting events.
- They couldn’t visit elderly relatives in nursing homes.
- They couldn’t leave the country.
- They couldn’t board an airplane or a train.
- They couldn’t use libraries or visit city hall.
- They were denied marriage licenses.
- They were denied appointments with their family doctor.
- They were denied life-saving medical care.
- They could only fraternize with a small number of people.
- They listened as their prime minister asked “Should we tolerate these people?”
Not much difference between the two lists, is there?
As loyal readers are well aware, there was someone on social media who was left speechless when I had compared the Canadian government to the Nazis. He should have instead been left speechless as to how strikingly similar the two regimes were when it came to the legalized harassment of undesirables they didn’t like.
Though I’m enjoying it, I’ll admit that books like this are hard to read these days.
Because the subject material hits a little too close to home.
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