A few years ago, my husband and I had the opportunity to visit Bavaria (Southern Germany) and Austria. Although the idea of visiting Nazi sites was abhorrent, we felt that we wanted to honor the victims of Nazi Germany and to offer our remembrance of their suffering.
One of the places we visited was this museum near Berchtesgaden in the Alps where Hitler finally died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokumentationszentrum_Obersalzberg
We were so heartened to find that the German people have created this magnificent museum here -- a museum which is designed to warn the German people of the first signs of fascism and to take the visitors step by step through the initial attraction of the German people to the Nazi movement, to the coercion and terror of the victims -- Jewish, gays, Gypsies -- and eventually to the destruction of the common people themselves. This stunning and memorable museum provides a great warning and an acknowledgement of the fears and the realities that the German people faced when Hitler was on the rise.
We always like to say that we would never allow such a thing to happen here ... and that somehow the German people failed the test -- failed the world. And yet here we are today in America. A fascist personality is about to take the reins of power and he is busily promoting other fascist types to work with him and to dispense laws, rules and regulations which will lay the foundations for our future.
So I think it's important for us to recognize the signs of fascism -- here and now. Here's a source I've found online which lists these signs. We've only just begun this walk, and we're well on track. www.rense.com/...
I hope we'll be wiser, braver and better prepared to respond than were the German people in the '30s. We can take heart in that they didn't have the benefit of communications technologies that we have today.
We must resist!