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The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.

The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).

The full translation of the cover would be

HIS STRUGGLE

Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:

How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America

When Germans call you a Nazi….

I see so much commentary in the tags about how Trump can’t be a Nazi because he’s pro-Israel, and I’m sitting here like, guys. Children. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else (ring a bell?) while undermining democratic values (RING A BELL?) and being blatantly racist (RING A… you know what, forget it, you’re not listening to me anyway). 

Instead of anti-communism you now have fierce pro-capitalism and instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred. You already have the denunciations and people walking from door to door trying to root out “illegals.”

Current US politics may not involve any gas chambers, but Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!” either. If you honestly think US policies won’t escalate further, especially if Trump gets a second term, you’re standing chin-deep in denial.

As Jewish people have consistently pointed out: Trump also DOES surround himself with a lot of prominent antisemites. 

Which is consistent with his support of the state of Israel because supporting antisemitism and supporting Israel are compatible. If you want your own country to not have any Jewish people without having to plan all the messy ‘genocide’ stuff, it’s useful to have a country to push them towards. (a country which conveniently makes a good military base for US imperialism). No surprise there.

If anyone thinks all this shit isn’t going to also harm Jewish Americans, they’re either fooling themselves or is deliberately ignoring antisemitism. 

The Nazis in the 40s did in fact explore the idea of getting rid of the Jewish population by relocating them on a different continent. Antisemites today are often pro-Israel as a way of enacting that same idea.

(Trigger warning: descriptions of murder methods, Holocaust)

Jup, people think of the Holocaust as this pre-made plan that was thought out from start to finish, but that’s not true. Hitler dreamed of a ‘Jewish-free’ Germany from day one, but how that could be achieved was never sure.

After his rise to power in 1933, the first concentration camps were filled mainly with political opponents, (of course quite a few political opponents were Jewish, since Jewish Germans had very good reasons not to like Hitler).

The Nazi regime started out banning Jewish people from jobs, banning interracial marriages, trying to isolate Jewish people socially, using street violence and pushing Jewish people to leave Germany. The Nazis didn’t really care where the Jewish people went as long as they left.

At this point in history,
extermination

camps for mass murder were most definitely not on the agenda. No one had invented them yet and the isolating of Jewish people was not a deliberate step towards mass murder. Pushing immigration effective enough.
By 1939, around 250,000 of Germany’s 437,000 Jews had emigrated to places like the US, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Palestine, and other
countries. 

But a lot of countries closed their borders to Jewish refugees and there were very few places left to go to by 1938. Then Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and suddenly it had a loooooot more Jewish people and no place left to push them to. So it began rounding up Jewish people in ghettos, without really knowing what to do with them next. Mass deportation was considered. It was in this period that they started thinking about pushing all Jewish Poles to move to Madagascar or some other colony.

Pushing all Jewish Poles into the Soviet Union was also considered and when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in june 1941, they started mass murdering Jewish populations through mass shootings. When that proved too nauseating for the soldiers, gas vans were brought in to gas people to death on site.

When the war in the west and the war in the east both dragged on, it became clear that there was no way to send Jewish people out of the Third Reich through battlefields. Only then, at the start of 1942, was the idea of pushing Jewish people out of the Reich abandoned completely and only then was the decision made to kill all Jewish people within their territory and only then were extermination camps conceived.

TL;DR: For the majority of the history of the Third Reich, violently pushing Jewish people to immigrate was an important part of Nazi policy and possible locations for a ‘Jewish state’ were considered to achieve that goal. Genocide became a nazi policy slowly over the course of 9 years.