Lest We Forget: April 20, 1889 Alois Schicklgruber, Jr. was born
April 20, 1889 is when Alois Schicklgruber, Jr. was born. You may know him better by another name – Adolf Hitler. As the world knows, to its great sorrow, he went on to become one of the most murderous tyrants in human history until his suicide in 1945.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria to Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf was the fourth of six children born to Alois and Klara, but only one of two to survive childhood. Adolf’s father, Alois, was nearing his 52nd birthday when Adolf was born, but was only celebrating his 13th year as a Hitler. Alois (Adolf’s father) was actually born as Alois Schicklgruber on June 7, 1837 to Maria Anna Schicklgruber. At the time of Alois’ birth, Maria was not yet married. Five years later (May 10, 1842), Maria Anna Schicklgruber married Johann Georg Hiedler (later Hitler).
Although Hitler was a left-wing extremist (the very name of his movement, Nazi, is a contraction for “national socialism”) somehow today’s media have managed to turn the word into a pejorative against the conservative right. Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
If I had a buck for every time my colleagues and I have been called Nazis or fascists, why… I’d buy a lot more gold or Bitcoins.
George Santayana – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Take time today to call all your Republican and Democrat members of Congress and the media to remind them of this notable day. If they express outrage, respond with deep surprise:
Hitler, the founder of the National Socialist Party, was a role model for socialists. Hitler enacted big government control of everything in Germany; loved furry animals; hated smoking; was a vegetarian, murdered the innocent on an industrial scale; was inspired by the American Eugenics movement; thought Germany needed to get beyond restrictive Judeo-Christian morality; was pro-Muslim; he divided the citizenry according to race; he didn’t tolerate dissent from his political opponents; etc.
It is fitting to remember that even more than 100 years after Hitler’s birth, his legacy lives on. Two demented high school students in Littleton, Colorado, chose the anniversary of their hero’s birth to conduct the Columbine High School massacre and at the beginning of Holy week Frazier Glenn Cross, a white supremacist and member of the KKK, killed three innocent people in Kansas.
Perhaps on this April 20th, Easter Sunday, it is fitting and proper to remember the immortal words of George Santayana.
