I Want You To Think Hard And Long On This.

A meme on Facebook caught my attention and I asked an AI if this was true... it replied that it was. What did I ask it? "Is this true: The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Germany instigating street fights and then tell the press that only they can save Germany from the communists?"

It said basically yes.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum writes that;

As District Leader of the Nazi Party in Berlin, Goebbels was a tireless and fearless agitator. He repeatedly provoked the Communist and Social Democratic Party members. He marched members of the SA (Storm Troopers) into working class neighborhoods where those parties had passionate supporters. The Nazis inevitably suffered casualties in the bitter street fighting that followed. Goebbels then invoked the heroism of Nazi “martyrs” who were injured or killed to garner greater public attention.

Nazi newspapers, photographs, films, and, later, paintings dramatized the exploits of these fighters. The “Horst Wessel Song,” for example, bore the name of the 23-year-old stormtrooper and protégé of Goebbels who was killed in 1930. The song became the Nazi party’s anthem. In addition, the well-publicized image of the SA man with a bandaged head and the portrayal of muscular, oversized Storm Troopers became standard visuals in party propaganda. In the first eight months of 1932, the Nazis claimed that seventy “martyrs” had fallen in battle against the Marxist enemy.

Hey wait a minute this sound vaguely familiar?

Libraries across Germany were similarly purged of "censored" books. Goebbels instituted a so-called “black list” of works whose publication was banned in Germany. Further, he preached an appealing message of national unity that resonated with millions of Germans. He extolled “German” values such as loyalty to the leader, self-sacrifice for the “National Community,” and “Aryan” racial purity. At the same time, he proclaimed the need to persecute Jews and others excluded from the Nazi vision of the “National Community.”

This sounds like the conservatives today! Book bans! Don't say gay!

Nazi propagandists also ramped up “negative” messages aimed at furthering Nazi anti-Jewish policies and the exclusion of other targeted groups. These messages were in line with the radicalization of racial policies ending ultimately in the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of Jews during the war.

Them writes...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly preparing to categorize transgender people as “violent extremists,” a categorization supported by organizations affiliated with Project 2025.

Um... 

Officials said that such a classification would give the Trump administration “political (and media) cover” as they escalate their anti-trans campaign in the aftermath of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk’s death.

“They are cynically targeting trans people because the shooter’s lover was trans,” an unnamed senior intelligence official told Klippenstein. “The administration has convinced itself that the Charlie Kirk murder exposes some dark conspiracy.”

You know it almost looks like Trump is using Goebbels playbook!