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(Disclaimer: While I am alluding to a historical setting and using historical characters, this story is a work of fiction EXCLUSIVELY. The baby mentioned here is an original character who did not exist in real life. Also, I dedicate this story to @amypihcs !)
Tw: suicide mention, Orientalism, death
The Grim Game
May, 1910
Harlem, New York City
It was a windy and rainy night, quite atypical for the month of May. Street lamps were illuminating the West 113th Street and its many fancy buildings, their lights bright as ever.
Some of the inhabitants of the many brownstones lining the street were preparing for dinner. Some were merely drinking hot tea or chocolate while discussing the business of that day and the plans for the next one. Others yet were already putting out the lights and preparing to retire to bed after a long day of work or school.
However, one particular household was doing none of the above, for an unexpected occurrence had disrupted their usual lives mere hours earlier. An occurrence after which the lives of that particular family would change forever.
“We should boil the milk first. That’s how it was done back in our country.” an old woman whispered in German while hovering around the stove. “The last thing we need is the baby being sick, my dear Bess.” she added, turning to her daughter-in-law.
Bess, a short woman in her early thirties, responded with a simple nod, her wide full lips curled at the corners into a smile as she was holding the baby.
Wrapped up in a bundle of white cloth with a polka dot pattern, the baby girl was so pink, so quiet and so tiny that she somewhat resembled a life sized doll, but the softness of her pink skin, her heartbeat and her soft gurgles were positive proof that the baby was in fact very much human.
“Sleep, my little princess.” Bess whispered in German, tears of joy streaming down her cheeks as she listened to her new daughter’s soft gurgles. “My little Mattie. Let’s go upstairs and make sure that Papa doesn’t catch his death of cold, alright?”
With that, Bess left the kitchen and headed straight for the master bedroom, where her husband was lying in bed, wrapped up in warm blankets and sipping hot chocolate.
Bess’s husband was a man who, while not very tall, had enough muscle mass to pass for a circus strongman and the unique brand of charisma that only the best of performers possess. And indeed he, Harry Houdini, was a household name in the United States, known for his daring escapes and for exposing fraudulent “psychics”.
As soon as the door opened and his beloved wife tiptoed inside with Mattie in her arms, Houdini smiled, put his cup of hot chocolate onto a nightstand and gently took the baby into his arms, carefully rocking the bundle and cooing in German, the mother tongue of both his and Bess’s families.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the new parents nor to Mattie’s new grandmother, two ghosts gathered near the window of the master bedroom, looking closely at the happy family. These ghosts were none other than the recently deceased Mr. and Mrs. Dorn, the newest additions to the list of frauds exposed by Harry Houdini.
“You know, Otto,” said Mrs. Anna Dorn, a petite woman who was still donning her Turkish inspired dress and her white turban. “I still can’t believe that our foe is the same man who is taking care of Martha now.”
Otto Dorn, a short and stocky man whose head was also adorned by a turban, sighed, placing his transparent hand onto his wife’s shoulder.
“I can’t believe it either, my love, yet I do feel grateful that Houdini dove into the river to attempt to save us. At least he succeeded in saving Martha. It would not do anyone good to take her with us.”
“I know.” Mrs. Dorn sighed as well, guilt consuming her even in death. “I wished to protect our daughter from bearing the scarlet letter of having frauds for parents… However, I now feel that Martha might have a second chance at life and grow up to become an honest young woman.”
Mr. Dorn smiled, pulling his wife into a warm embrace.
“Let us hope that you are correct, my love.”
Mrs. Dorn smiled as well, and the two ghosts vanished into the night while the Houdinis were holding the baby girl and quietly discussing what design they wanted to use for Mattie’s nursery.
The ghosts crowded near the window to see the baby the new caretakers brought into the manor.
#history#historical fiction#suicide tw#orientalism tw#cw death#historical fanfiction#my writing#my art#i did research baby formulas specifically for this#at the time commercial ones already existed#but many people still just used animal milk#on its own or mixed with water and sugar and honey#rubber tips for baby bottles appeared in 1845#also in the 1910s people already had bottles closer to the modern design#harlem at this point in history is not a black neighborhood#it was first populated by German#Jewish and Italian families#West 113th Street in particular was considered to be for the affluent families#mostly German and/or Jewish#Houdini did live on that street in reality#his brownstone stands there today#harry houdini#bess houdini
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i will be honest sometimes ill be talking w europeans abt gaza and its like okay you’re talking about a concept and i am talking about my uncle
#in many different ways. mostly thinking abt this one christian german guy my friend knew who was really intensely zionist and it was like#you are making up this idea of jewish people in your head like this is a symbol to you. idk that youre engaging w the realities dude#but same w like the irish ppl i overheard the other day being like ‘ah well you know palestinians are so like us as well’#this seems like maybe youre just treating palestine as a symbol for ireland but like. it’s its own place#the attitude of like. making world war one ass alliances and being like well im on this side for symbolic reasons irrespective of the#people actually involved really annoys me#like idt palestinians right to not be genocided is dependent on how irish they seem#and idt supporting the israeli state meaningfully changes the fact that you dont talk to jewish people in your actual life#both attitudes end up centering ur european feelings#idk this is longwinded but the thought has been stuck in my head#be quiet b
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So annoying that I cannot read the book I’m reading in public because of the cover……..
#I’ve always had this problem……. I love historical nonfiction …#and like yeah yay textile history yay women yay whatever is the socially acceptable on tumblr history to be into#but unfortunately I’m also a WWII grandpa. you know what I mean.#anyway all this to say-#I’m currently reading a book about the German Empire#it’s fascinating but also . giant eagle on the front and it’s called Blood and Iron..#so like. it is kind of giving Nazi even if it’s about the second reich and not the third#that post about reading Lolita in public and shaking your head to show you disagree with Humbert Humbert#but it’s me with a giant sign saying I’m Jewish and have an innocent interest in Prussia#I’m probably overthinking LOL but my mom drilled it into me at a young age bc again . history guy.#fuck off feliks#also this matters because I mostly read on the subway when I go anywhere
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Could i dm you on the subjecting of becoming friends over a mutual hobby in hebrew/judean/linguistics?
Feel free, I guess. My DMs are open.
#hebrew#Judean#Fun fact: the language is called Jewish (Yehudit) in the Tanakh!#This likely indicates the existence of a slightly different israelite language#I'm not an expert#But considering that moabite is similar enough to be readable to hebrew speakers#I'm guessing Israelite - the variation of the language from the northern kingdom - would be as well#If not even closer#I've also heard claims that this is the dialect Hosea is written in#And yes#Yiddish means jewish as well#That doesn't take away from the fact this was the name of the ancient language#Yiddish is a mixture if it and european languages#Mostly german#The tags felt empty#Now they have a short language ramble.
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Did these people actually forget the fucking Holocaust
#like my dudes slavs were literally only like two or three steps above jewish and roma people in the ''racial hierarchy''#only useful as slaves for labor not deemed worthy of germans (which by the way. the word slave literally comes from slav)#the second and third highest numbers of holocaust civilian victims are soviets (aka mostly ukrainian and belarusian) and poles#hungarians greeks and other east european people were also victims#and that's not mentioning the centuries before. look at Bram Stoker's treatment of slovaks and romanians in Dracula#the Habsburg empire#the eastern Roman empire#limiting the discrimination of east europeans to modern day UK and west EU shows a certain self-centeredness and ignorance#shows how little the west respects us that they keep disregarding the centuries of discrimination
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PSA for Americans mostly-
Americans use Caucasian to mean white because of fake race-science done by a weird German dude.
In the real world, Caucasians come from the Caucasus.
That means you can in fact have Caucasian Jews- Jewish people who follow the rites of the Jewish diaspora in the Caucasus.
The aren’t ethnically Caucasian, in the same way European Jews aren’t ethnically European, but the Caucasian Jews are very real (unlike the mythical white Jews of tumblr).
You may have also heard them called “Mountain Jews,” or even “Red Jews.” They make frequent appearances in Ashkenazi urban legend/popular culture as larger-than-life heroic figures.
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THURSDAY HERO: Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a Polish pharmacist who helped the starving, suffering Jewish residents of the Krakow ghetto by providing them with medicine, food, and other lifesaving supplies.
Born in Sambor, Poland in 1908, Tadeusz studied at the prestigious Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 1933 he took over the family business: a small pharmacy called Under the Eagle. Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but Tadeusz’s quiet life and successful small business were mostly unaffected, until 1941, when the Nazis forced the city’s 15,000 Jews into a ghetto.
Tadeusz’s pharmacy happened to be within the ghetto’s borders. The Nazis shut down other businesses and essential services in the ghetto to make it impossible for Jews to get food and other necessities, but Tadeusz refused to close his store. He bribed the Gestapo, using his own savings, to keep Under the Eagle open. Tadeusz was inspired by his Catholic faith to stay and help people however he could.
Conditions in the ghetto were horrific. There was never enough food, and every day residents died of starvation or illness; others were shot in the street by Nazi soldiers. Medicine of any kind was almost impossible to obtain, except from Tadeusz, who provided health care and pharmaceuticals for free to residents of the ghetto. He also provided them with lifesaving products such as hair dye to disguise their identity and tranquilizers to keep children quiet during Gestapo raids.
Tadeusz’s pharmacy became the go-to place for Jews to meet, plan underground activities and acts of defiance, and get lifesaving care and equipment. Tadeusz and his pharmacy employees Irena Drozdzikowska, Helena Krywaniuk, and Aurelia Danek put their lives at significant risk to help the Jews of the Krakow ghetto. Besides medicine, supplies and a safe place to meet, the brave pharmacist and his staff shared their meager wartime food rations, and hid Jews on the property during deportations. They were able to smuggle some Jews out of the ghetto and take them to hiding places where they would be safe.
Tadeusz actually befriended German soldiers to get information from them! He got them drunk and cleverly manipulated them into telling him about planned actions against Jews so he could warn them. Another service Tadeusz to the Jews trapped in the ghetto was acting as intermediary between them and the Poles with whom they left their valuables.
Among the people who met in secret in the pharmacy were prominent figures such as writer Mordechai Gebirtig and artist Abraham Neumann, who were tragically shot by the Germans in the ghetto in the infamous Bloody Thursday of June 4, 1942. Julian Aleksandrowicz survived the war to become a doctor and medical professor who specialized in the treatment of leukemia. Dr Abraham Mirowski, another Jew saved by Tadeuszm later said that the kind pharmacist was “living among us, was continuously exposed to dangers, but it did not make him scared. He was full of sympathy for our tragedy and wanted to help us with all his heart. Each death of a man or a woman was a traumatic experience for him.”
After the war, Tadeusz stayed in Krakow and, in 1947, he published his memoirs of life under German occupation. He continued working as a pharmacist. In 1957, some of the Jews he’d saved brought him for a visit to Israel as their guest. Tadeusz was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in 1983.
Tadeusz Pankiewicz died in Krakow in 1993. His pharmacy is now a museum about the history of the Jews of Krakow, with special focus on the ghetto years. Tadeusz and his brave staff are also a featured museum exhibit.
For helping Jews in the Krakow ghetto, we honor Tadeusz Pankiewicz as this week’s Thursday Hero.
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Daily update post:
Today, people in Israel are really loving Germany. If you're wondering why, it's related to SA's lawsuit against Israel at the ICJ. While the US, the UK and Canada all said that SA's accusation against Israel is baseless, Germany is actually putting its money where its mouth is. Instead of just saying the accusation is not rooted in reality, Germany has asked to join the lawsuit as a third party on Israel's side, protesting the misuse of the convention for the prevention and punishment of genocide. For the record, in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel was one of the countries pushing for the adoption of this convention, and one of the first to sign it. It's unbelievable poetic justice, that it's the Germans now coming to the defence of the Jewish state.
Yesterday, an independent Palestinian terrorist attack was carried out, one Israeli was injured, 3 terrorists were eliminated as they were breaking into a Jewish community. The man who was injured had identifies the cuts in the barbed wire fence, was hit by bullets, but was able to alert Israeli security forces, who stopped the attack. Two of the terrorists were 16 years old, the third was 19 years old. Firearms, knives and an axe were found on them. Here's CCTV footage of them while they were breaking into the community:
As the international coalition's forces have moved from defensive to offensive measures against the Houthis (the Iranian funded terrorists from Yemen), Israel is preparing for possible retribution carried out against our people, especially the southern city of Eilat.
The Israeli hostages in Gaza have not had their medications for 99 days. The Red Cross has refused to take these meds from the families, saying that while Hamas doesn't allow it, they can't pass anything to the hostages anyway. Now there's talk about Qatar possibly forcing Hamas to allow it, maybe as a part of some deal. We'll see. There's a lot of cases where reports from Qatar say Hamas have agreed to this or that (mostly in terms of agreeing to a new hostage deal), and then it turns out it was just the Qataris' suggestions to Hamas, being reported as if Hamas had accepted them. Against this backdrop, the Palestinian Red Crescent has reported it continues to provide ambulatory, mobile medical services to Palestinians who can't make it to hospitals, including giving them their meds.
Meanwhile, SA is proving once more that anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism, because it is being used to hurt Jews worldwide, by removing the Jewish captain, David Teeger, from the national cricket team under the excuse that there are anti-Israel protests against him.
Blinken says that Saudi Arabia is still interested in normalization (meaning, a peace agreement) with Israel. I'm going to be honest, I don't think it's a coincidence that it took the Saudis this long to say it. If Israel had folded, and stopped its war against Hamas, I suspect the Saudis would have taken this to mean that Israel is not strong enough to be an ally against Iran. The fact that the war continues, despite international pressure to stop (and effectively surrender to Iranian-funded Hamas), gives moderate Arab states hope that an alliance with Israel against Iran won't fail them and crumble at the first sign of trouble. I believe that's something that hasn't been talked about enough, how moderate Arab countries have been watching this war with Hamas, and how destructive it would be, if Hamas would have won. And any scenario where Hamas still exists and rules Gaza, even in a limited capacity, would be understood as their victory.
Jewish students at Harvard are suing the university for its longstanding failure to fight antisemitism, including in allowing antisemitic material to be taught in class. This is a reminder that the issue was never Claudine Gay specifically, there's a much bigger problem at hand in Harvard and other western universities, and her resignation is just the first step. I'm glad Jewish students are taking this initiative, to force Harvard to take more steps.
The Israeli Air Force has drawn this imitation of the yellow ribbon, worn as a part of the call to release the Israeli hostages, in the skies of Gaza (pic taken from inside southern Israel):
This is 71 years old Uri ben Tzvi.
I got to watch an interview with him. Uri survived the Hamas massacre on Oct 7 at kibbutz Be'eri, he and his wife hid together for hours, including 3.5 hours during which terrorists were rampaging through their home. Two hours later, they were saved thanks to their son, an IDF officer in an elite unit, who managed to make it out of his own home, and join security forces. But Uri recounted how almost any noise makes him jump now, and how almost all of his age group was wiped out. When he goes to the dining hall (kibbutzim are communal, everyone eats meals together), his friends that he used to sit with are no longer there. He insisted that Oct 7 was a kind of Holocaust, as Jewish kids were once again hiding in closets, terrified for their lives.
(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)
#israel#antisemitism#israeli#israel news#israel under attack#israel under fire#israelunderattack#terrorism#anti terrorism#hamas#antisemitic#antisemites#jews#jew#judaism#jumblr#frumblr#jewish
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And also... it's not(?
YOU'RE WORKING TODAY??
yeah my country doesn't have a genocide holiday sorry
#i would like to go ONE DAY without seeing 'Argentina is racist' discourse#is there racism here?? of course yeah like there is everywhere else#is this a PARTICULARLY racist country like y'all are saying it is? no#is it more racist than the us? or some european countries? FUCK NO. LIKE... NOT EVEN CLOSE#saying that in Argentina we are all white is not the own you think it is. It's just trying to ignore/erase all the poc that live here.#trying to erase all the indigenous people that are still here#saying that Argentina is mostly germans and nazis is trying to erase our jewish population#now isn't that ACTUALLY racist? trying to pretend like black and indigenous people don't exist here??#like if u don't know shit about us just stfu#u don't even have to go too far like bro most people i know are not white wtf half of my family is not even fucking white lmaoo#we can and we SHOULD talk about racism in our country both historically and in the present#but we must do it without erasing people's identities#and you fucking gringos are not invited to the convo since you clearly can't be normal about... anything really. But specially race.#I'm once again asking you to look into the racism withing your country before pointing the finger at us#Deal with your fucking problems for once. The rest of the world will handle theirs without you. We promise that we don't need you.
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Regarding radical feminists (specifically transphobic ones) becoming fascists: it's a thing. You let yourself fall into one form of bigoted thinking, it gets easier and easier to adopt others. And that's how we get JK Rowling denying Nazi crimes in the year 2024.
oh my fucking god. someone accused her of „upholding nazi ideology around gender“ which she called a fever dream because gender was not a thing in nazi germany since the distinction between sex and gender was made mid 20th century. all the claims about trans people being targeted by the nazis come from the fact they burned books by magnus hirschfeld and made him close his institut where he did research on transsexuals - his wikipedia states he was targeted for being JEWISH and GAY. not because of his research.
this article also makes clear that being trans only meant people crossdressing, which mostly - almost exclusively - affected gay men who were indeed targeted by the nazis as emphasised by homosexuals getting their own symbol in the concentration camps. crossdressers were indeed persecuted because they were regarded as homosexuals.
and just my personal opinion? doing experimental research on what we today understand as homosexuals with internalised homophobia and gender dysphoria is not trans friendly. they usually died soon after the surgeries. if hirschfeld had not been jewish and gay but a non-jewish heterosexual german in the nsdap selling it as the medicalisation and castration of homosexuals it was to the nazis, they certainly would have let him do it or even supported it as part of their eugenics politics. seeing as he was racist and sexist too. and one of his doctors went on to work for the nazis, for example (source: the scientist magazine below).
oh and by the way it is really difficult to find sources that are not tainted by modern gender ideology applied to what went down at that clinic.
this article for instance talks about „transgender“ people getting „gender affirming care“ when - again - gender was introduced as a concept after the fact.
i wish some more of you would realise this. trans, whether that be transvestite, transsexual or transgender, is not a universal concept like biological sex and homosexuality. it is entirely cultural.
oh and lastly, did you know that the nazis persecuted prostitutes but opened brothels in concentration camps and other places? and did you know that many of the women prostituted by german nazis were jewish, roma and eastern european? and did you know that pro trans groups and parties are supporting the liberal prostitution law in germany that enables and fosters the mass sexual exploitation of eastern european women at the hands of german men in german brothels TODAY? where is the uproar for that huh? you people are deeply unserious when it comes to social justice issues and prefer engaging in manufactured rage online over actually analysing and dismantling systems of oppression. fuck off now
#i should get paid for this shit#ask#history#shit talking#this isnt even about jkr because im not a fan of how she handled that whole thing#and like i cant stress enough that the woman who accuses jkr of holocaust denial#had to apologise for celebrating the 7th october attack#last note: i think you are more at risk of going down the fascist pipeline if you mindlessly parrot shit and dont allow criticism
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Okay so here's a weird (highly specific) gerische feel:
As far as I can prove (which is my mother's side of the family, but mostly her mother, because my biological grandfather was totally estranged by the time my mom married my father and I've never met him) I have no Jewish ancestry
However
I do have German ancestry and learned a bit of German in my younger years (but otherwise have no cultural connections to it)
My beit din was actually mixed minhag so I have the option of choosing Ashkenazi or Sephardi
I adore Sephardic food and music and liturgy, and if I were choosing a minhag in a vacuum I would honestly choose it, however,
When I learn Yiddish music and sing in Yiddish, it feels like home, like I was made to make these sounds and sing these melodies, and,
My body has a hard time processing food in general, but you know what it doesn't typically have issues with and which I actively enjoy eating? Gefilte fish, pickled herring, beets, shredded horseradish, garlic, pickles.... etc.
.......I may or may not have seasoned my bowl of matzah ball soup this past year at seder with shredded horseradish
Conclusion: I think my germanic heritage has ensured I remain painfully Ashkenazi and I should probably just embrace it lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I still typically just follow the minhag hamakom, though, at least with davening)
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guy whose main special interests are geography, archaeology, sociology, and the magnus archives. anyways here’s my extensive (perhaps slightly unrealistic for london i don’t know) ethnicity headcanons for tma and tmagp. most of these have little to no canon backing my Autism just told me
i’m going to reblog this with more later
TMA
jonathan sims: indo-surinamese
martin blackwood: i get canada from him ? specifically martimes, maybe nova scotia. also ethnically jewish because im both of those and can do what i want
tim stoker: predominantly vietnamese, dominican also
sasha james: st. lucian?? doesn’t feel entirely right but it’s all i’m getting
elias bouchard: english . maybe a bit portuguese
peter lukas (& lukas family) norwegian & russian??
gerard keay: greek
michael shelley: russian & serbian
basira hussain: bihari
daisy tonner: my mind wants me to say german my heart says aṉangu. she can be both
melanie king: ukrainian
oliver banks: xhosa
rosie zampano: italian & malaysian
annabelle cane: nyakyusa
gertrude robinson: german & polish
TMAGP:
sam khalid: sindhi
alice dyer (& luke): taíno (specifically cuba)
gwen bouchard: mostly english partially swedish
celia ripley: korean
teddy vaughn: yoruba
lena kelley: mestiza (guarayo)
ink5oul: tibetan???? mongol?? leaning tibet i think
colin becher: so very scottish (accidentally said irish whoops so edited this)
please (metaphorically) throw rocks at me if anything here is canonically wrong or just like . wrong in general
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i can't say judenhass instead of antisemitism. im sorry. its mostly because i have a deep aversion to hearing anything to do with jews in german. i watched this german show where a guy shows the german public about jewish culture as an attempt to combat antisemitism but the theme song had a part that was just "jude jude jude jude" and i had to turn it off.
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Lessons of Resistance from WWII: The Rosenstrasse Protest and Evacuation of the Danish Jews
So a long history rant I think people should know about and keep in mind for the future. I want to talk to people about a little talked about story in the history of WWII, the Rosenstrasse protest: the one time, during the height of the Holocaust, when the German public protested against the deportation of Jews; and they won.
1942-early 1943 was arguably the height of Nazi Germany; with most of the continent occupied, allied, or neutral to them. It was also 2 years into the Final Solution phase of the Holocaust, the planned mass killing of Jews. In February 1943, the government began the final round-up of the 20,000 remaining Jews in Berlin. This included a category of Jews that the government had previously avoided deporting: Jews married to gentile Germans. While the Nazis had cracked down on these relationships since they came to power, there were at this time 1,800 mixed couples remaining in Berlin; almost all Jewish men married to gentile women (After the consolidation of power under Hitler, more German men had divorced their Jewish partners than women).
When these Jewish men were arrested, hundreds of their non-Jewish spouses descended upon the building they were held in, bringing with them friends and families, screaming for their husbands to be released. The protests were so large, that the Nazis could not suppress news of it spreading through Germany and internationally; and they were also genuinely afraid that arresting or shooting these women could cause the situation to spiral even further into an outright uprising. As a result, the men were released, and most of them survived the war.
Now there are a lot of critiques and analyses that can be done of the protest, about privilege and gender, and noting that nothing was said about releasing the 18,000 other Berlin Jews set to be deported to camps. Still, the reaction that the public had to these deportations, combined with the shockingly hopeful story of Denmark in the Holocaust, gives some valuable lessons in how fascists can be thwarted.
Demark was invaded by Germany in 1939 and was given a degree of autonomy, being treated as the "model protectorate." While the Danish government did acquiesce to demands to ban Communist and Socialist political parties, they refused to enact racial laws targeting Danish Jews. While not to say anti-semitism didn't exist in Denmark, for reasons debated by historians and sociologists, Denmark did not have a strong history of "othering" its Jewish community, and it was largely seen as an accepted part of Danish society.
In September 1943, German plans to deport the Danish Jewish community to concentration camps leaked to the Danish government, which then alerted leaders of the Jewish community. Over 3 weeks churches, civil servants (notably mostly working independently of the government), political parties, the Danish resistance (mostly at this point made up of the before mentioned Communists and Socialists), and private individuals helped evacuate 7,220 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden. For context, the Jewish population of Denmark before the invasion was around 7,800. Of the 580 Danish Jews who failed to escape to Sweden, 464 were arrested; however, work by Swedish and Danish groups saw 425 of them released. Further, when the war ended, it was discovered that 116 Danish Jews had been hidden by their neighbors. In all, a shocking 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust; the most of any occupied nation in Europe.
I tell both of these stories because they show what fascists and authoritarians are aware of: the limits of their power. They are aware of the simple fact so much of their power comes from average people just accepting what they do with no pushback. These groups thrive on atomization, demonization, and otherization. Because when people refuse to let their neighbors be attacked, that's when issues pop up. There were other individuals and groups in Germany who spoke out against the Nazis (the White Rose and the Edelweiss Pirates to name a few), but they were small and disorganized, they could be arrested or exiled or killed without much effort. But large groups of resistance? How do you arrest or kill those without stopping their families and friends from protesting? And the foot soldiers enacting their agenda tend to get antsy if there is large-scale pushback to them. The big guys in charge might be safe, but them? They are vulnerable to being fired, sued, arrested, or ostracised if they are seen enacting unpopular policies. Such actions put authorities on the defensive, stall them, and make them reconsider their tactics; which in the long run, can save lives.
This is what people mean, whether they know it or not, over the last few days when they have been saying "Help those close to you, keep your friends close." They want you to think they are all-powerful. They want you to think they are unstoppable. They want you to think there is no hope in openly denying them. Because they know that if those few people openly defying them become large groups openly defying them, then things spiral out of control.
#world war ii#resistance#Rosenstrasse Protest#Denmark#History#favorites#we will get through this#we will not go back#we will survive
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Reminder that many new-agers and other neo- spiritual cults have appropriated so much from so many different religions. You are not immune to their terminology and ideology!!!
And even if something is an "open practice" (though it's rarely that cut and dry) you should still research the culture and history, you should still know where it originates from and how it has changed because neo- religions LOVE to ignore the true histories to further their agenda.
Think about terms you might use and research them, discover where they come from and if they're actually appropriate to include in your practice.
The western Chakras were appropriated in the 1800s from Hinduism and Buddhism.
Tarot was originally a Northern Italian card deck used to play card games like Tarocchini.
The "Qabalah" many occultists use today is stolen from Jewish Mysticism.
The "sabbat" names in the wiccan (or pagan) "calendar of the year" was mostly taken from Celtic cultures.
Smudging is an important ritual to many Indigenous communities and it is more than just burning some herbs. (Side note: White Sage is very sacred, and overharvested by Westerners)
Runes were part of Germanic languages long before they were used for divination.
Western Astrology stems from Mesopotamia, and Vedic Astrology originates in Hindiusm.
Things like Starseeds and Indigo children stem from the 1970s (not as ancient as new agers like to believe) and are similiar to the concept of fae Changlings - they're also very ableist concepts.
I'm not going to tell you what you can or cannot do or use in your craft. I have no authority and even if I did, I have no way of forcing you to follow it. All I am saying is please listen to these communities and their voices, and consider the history of the things you want to include. Make the best decision you can based on research and consideration, not what you think sounds cool. (Another side note: cultures, religions and communities are not a monolith, there will not always be one "right" answer, but that doesn't mean you get to cherry pick for the answer you want.)
#feel free to add to this any other examples of forgotten history and appropriated practices#if someone tells you that something ur doing is appropriated or harmful maybe research and listen rather than tell them theyre wrong#buriedpentacles#witch#witchcraft#witch community#witchblr#nature#pagan#paganism#pagan community#pagan culture
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Got a live one for you, been posting in the antisemitism tag, and found some lovely bullshit: https://www.tumblr.com/hayarthun/765925798861471744/nazi-judas-jews-often-hide-behind-the-term?source=share
and: https://www.tumblr.com/hayarthun/764936057376620544/zionists-are-cannibals-night-crimes-of-satanists?source=share
Jews killed Jesus
Arabs are the real semites
Notice that semit is a slavic word
This is Armenian and mostly writes in this, I suppose sometimes Op wants their stuff to break containment
Notice the Russian. Now plenty of Armenian speak Russian due to Russian Imperialism however notice the tags IN ARABIC.
very bad translaition: " On the nature of the kike
"To further settler colonialism and occupation the Zionist separates everyone into Jews and non Jews the way German Fascists will sort everyone into Jew and Aryan races
"Israel is a fascist regime BECAUSE Jews caused the holocaust on themselves and are the real fascists
"you see the Jews are such a tribe that will kill their own in their dirty schemes to kill more gentiles"
If this sounds familiar it's because Russia WROTE this shit first and you got the translation into English. The original russian tract contains holocaust inversion the english translations cut out. You know who doesn't? STA!
Holocaust Denial is part of original antizionism as much as it's a part of neo-nazism
Blood libel
Also "photo of fire behind plane" caption: This proves the Jews eat Lebanese babies. This the worst blood libel I've ever seen
Recycling Hamas propaganda for Lebanon. Isn't it odd for the IDF is holding up the same panties and the same trophy ect?
Maybe because you're reusing shots of Syria and Gaza as shots of Lebanon?
BTW you know that soldier was court martialed right?
but nooo 'all Jews are rapists and must be killed to protect white christian women'
more deicide
OP cannot tag and instead rambles about things but knows to tag in languages but then doesn't provide translations. If you want arabic speakers to see it you provide a translation in arabic dumbass
Bitching about Azerbajain restoring an Armenian Chuch and that OP does not trust those filty mutherfuckers with his history
and how the 250 years is innacurate because that's when the government registered it as Armenian Church as before then they acted as if Armenians didn't have a seperate culture
Claiming Jews are secretly Zoroastraian, Our beliefs in demons means we stole that from Zoroastrianism and Purim is actually a Zoroastrian spring fesitival Furgidan
Again the source for all this is Jewish philosopher Flavius which sounds like when y'all said I said a horrible thing I did not say or use me as a token Jew, "even spot said it's true and they're Zionist so it must be ok", and I never said the thing
"Jews in Germany? Must be the ones that caused the holocaust!!!!"
This is dumber than most holocaust deniers and their writings is where logic goes to die
The evil Jews arrested my countryman for spreading lies piss and shit war they have, can't have anything in Azerbaijan
So when when a Turkish journalist arrested he's a martyr for truth but when Turkey genocides your people the Jews made them do it?
This person's blog is from 2018. I don't think they're a bot I think they truly believe the shit they spew
#right wing antisemitism#holocaust denial#deicide#antisemitic conspiracy theories#antisemitism#holocaust inversion
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