Hitler was right about one thing full#

By 1934, the chancellorship and the presidency were merged, securing his position as 'Führer.' Less than three months after his appointment to chancellor, all non-Nazi parties, organizations and labor unions ceased to exist.

Hitler was right about one thing full#

A month later, the Enabling Act was passed, granting him full power without having to consult other government representatives. Within a month of rising to power in January 1933 as Germany’s chancellor, Hitler used the Reichstag Fire (the assembly location for parliament) as an excuse to issue a decree that overrode individual rights and authorized mass arrests. Instead of small changes that slowly eroded the rights of the German people, Hitler made large changes over a short period. Adam Kinzinger and state GOP Chairman Tim Schneider condemned the comments. We reached out to Miller about the quote but did not receive a response.īesides there being no evidence that Hitler said or wrote these words, in 'Mein Kampf' or otherwise, it also represents the opposite of his actions. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’ The comment is often attributed to Hitler, who organized youth groups to introduce children to Nazi ideologies. Miller’s book uses the quote as a header at the start of a chapter and also falsely cites it as coming from Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf'. We traced the quotation back to the 2014 novel 'Willfully Ignorant,' by Pat Miller, who served as a Republican state legislator in Colorado in the early 1990s. There is no record of Hitler saying or writing this statement, and it couldn’t be found in ' Mein Kampf,' his infamous autobiography and manifesto. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post has been shared over 2,600 times since March 21 and was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. It's for your own good … An avalanche starts with one little snowflake.' Don't worry, we're the government and we're here to help. The caption alongside the post says, 'Stop being unreasonable, no one is here to take your guns … but we will take those bullets. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed. 'The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. Shortly after New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines following the deadly mosque attack on March 15, we saw this fake Hitler quote resurface on Facebook: Take, for example, a quote being credited to Adolf Hitler on social media. Other times, words are falsely attributed to historical villains with the opposite intent-to discredit the belief. Sometimes fake quotes are put into the mouths of influential, admirable people in order to gather support for a particular idea.