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cali

(114,904 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 02:54 PM Jan 2016

Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

In an essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anne Frank's stepsister accused Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Eva Schloss, now 86, was a friend of Frank's in Amsterdam after their families fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Her mother, Fritzi, would marry Otto Frank, Anne's father, after World War II.

"If Donald Trump become(s) the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster," she told Newsweek on Wednesday. "I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism."

Schloss survived Auschwitz while Frank and her mother died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and Anne Frank's diary became a famous account of life as a Jewish family under Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees' experience in 2016 "to what we went through" in Nazi-controlled Europe.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/anne-frank-donald-trump-adolf-hitler/index.html

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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
1. Bravo to her!! Trump does use the same methodology as Hitler and our own xenophobes and racists.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:10 PM
Jan 2016

He and others like him dehumanize swaths of people by painting them as threats and enemies. Whether it's greedy Jews, Black thugs, lazy Latinos, rapist Muslims, or Welfare Queens.

It is odious and I'm astonished to see similar memes here.

K&R

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
4. A much needed warning to those that can be seduced into fearing groups of people
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:43 PM
Jan 2016

for the color of their skin, their poverty, their origins, or their culture.

I agree with Anne Frank.

PatSeg

(47,500 posts)
3. And Trump
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:38 PM
Jan 2016

would call her "a loser"! (I can hear his voice in my head, but can't translate it into writing.)

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
6. Yep. And here's what some of his devotees had to say
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:57 PM
Jan 2016

To: SeekAndFind
Schloss is about to get schlonged


7 posted on 1/28/2016, 11:10:13 AM by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind
I really don’t give a crap what she thinks.She is entitled to her opinion.I think she’s very wrong.


8 posted on 1/28/2016, 11:11:35 AM by Renegade
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To: SeekAndFind
When you are forced to go for the Hitler comparison, your side has lost the debate.


9 posted on 1/28/2016, 11:11:40 AM by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: SeekAndFind
“Schloss, who lives in London, also criticized the U.S. and Western European governments for their response to the Syrian crisis, likening the refugees’ experience in 2016 “to what we went through” in Nazi-controlled Europe.”

So Jews went around raping people? They were flooding into Germany looking for welfare benefits?

I only am able to read about WW2 Europe, and I’m wondering if this person wasn’t living in Utah at the time and only thinks she knows what happened there, because that is flat-out one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.

To: SeekAndFind
If someone’s father marries her mother after his daughter from an earlier marriage has died (in a Nazi Holocaust camp), can she claim to be the deceased’s “stepsister.” I think not.

Her rant is actually a plus for Trump.


22 posted on 1/28/2016, 11:15:10 AM by twister881
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To: SeekAndFind
Just which race are Muslims, sweetheart?


23 posted on 1/28/2016, 11:15:33 AM by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SeekAndFind
Anne Frank’s stepsister

aka as a nobody


To: SeekAndFind
Pound sand, Eva.

To: SeekAndFind
doesn’t this dumbass know Hitler’s allies were the Muzzies she is defending?.. the same Muzzies who want to exterminate every Jew on earth?

To: SeekAndFind
Anne Frank's stepsister compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler
If she hasn't spoken out about the Nazi characteristics of Barack Obama, then she has no credibility from whence to cast aspersions on Trump.

The most Nazi like person we have ever had in a leadership position is Barack Obama.

To: SeekAndFind
Jews never were too bright when it comes to self preservation instincts.

She thinks muslims should be welcomed, yet, muslims want to rid the world of Jews like Hitler wanted. Yet, she compares someone like Trump, that wants to limit muslim influence to kill the Jews, to Hitler that wanted to exterminate the Jews.

Not very bright.


To: SeekAndFind
What a senile old windbag. Any sympathy I had for her is long gone now.

To: SeekAndFind
Sad, deranged old moonbat.


78 posted on 1/28/2016, 2:09:41 PM by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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jackass


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389739/posts?q=1&;page=51

PatSeg

(47,500 posts)
8. That is really depressing
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 11:14 PM
Jan 2016

Trump doesn't bother me nearly as much as the people who follow him. Scary people.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
5. I didn't realize she was still alive.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 03:45 PM
Jan 2016

I just watched a documentary with her a few months back. It was very interesting and her insights were amazing and sobering. I agree with her assessment of Trump.

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