[NEohioPAL] OFFENSIVE-Re: NEohioPAL Digest, Vol 735, Issue 2

[Courtney]

I’m incredibly disappointed and offended at the content in today’s email.  This has no place here in my opinion which I doubt any cares but it still needed to be said


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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. CAT IN THE HAT AUDITIONS @ PGT (Breanna Antoniades)
>   2. PLEASE read this regarding an existential threat...
>      (Fred Sternfeld)
>   3. TUITION-FREE MFA ACTING TRAINING IN NEOHIO! (Donald Carrier)
>   4. Olmsted Falls Middle School presents ?We Will Rock You? (Oct
>      24-26) (Eric Bartkowski)
>   5. Play On! Auditions at Aurora Community Theatre
>      (services at auroracommunitytheatre.com)
>   6. A Christmas Story at Cleveland Play House (Marketing)
>   7. The Cherry Orchard: Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House
>      MFA Acting Program Production (Marketing)
>   8. Re: PLEASE read this regarding an existential threat...
>      (Jim Volkert)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:10:28 -0400
> From: Breanna Antoniades <breannalmorton at gmail.com>
> To: post at neohiopal.org
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] CAT IN THE HAT AUDITIONS @ PGT
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> The Players Guild Theatre Proudly Presents:
> THE CAT IN THE HAT
> Based on the 1957 Children?s Book
> Written by Dr. Seuss
> Adapted by Katie Mitchell
> 
> Producing Artistic Director Josh Erichsen
> Directed by Tess Burgler
> Production Manager Breanna Antoniades
> Stage Manager Max Lord-Fry
> 
> Auditions: Friday, November 22, 6:00-9:00pm and Saturday, November 23,
> 11:00-2:00pm
> 
> ALL AGES WELCOME!
> 
> Callbacks: If necessary, schedule TBD.
> 
> Rehearsals begin Thursday, January 2, 2025 Rehearsals will run Mondays -
> Fridays 7:00-10:00 PM
> Performance dates are January 24 - 26, 2025 Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM,
> Sunday @ 2:00 PM.
> 
> THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOL MATINEES: January 28, 29 and February 4, 5 at 10:30
> AM.
> 
> **This is a reduced rehearsal period, partially because of the length of
> the script and partially to best use the time of our artists. As such, you
> should be prepared to memorize lines very early in the rehearsal process.
> Scripts for memorizing will be provided directly after casting is complete
> so actors can familiarize themselves with the text during the month of
> December and come to January rehearsals ready to roll. Please do not
> audition if you cannot commit to quickly memorizing content for this
> condensed rehearsal period.**
> 
> NON-TRADITIONAL CASTING WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR ALL ROLES
> 
> Please prepare a comedic monologue (bonus points for Shakespeare or
> something else in verse!)
> 
> Those wishing to audition can make an appointment for an audition time by
> signing up online HERE.
> <https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EABAB23A4FCC34-50478605-catinthe> (Role
> descriptions listed on signup link).
> 
> For parking, please park in the student lot 107 next to the Fine Arts
> Building on Kent State University at Stark?s Campus.
> 
> The Players Guild Theatre is located at 6000 Frank Ave NW, North Canton, OH
> 44720 in the Kent State University at Stark Fine Arts Building on floor one.
> 
> 
> *Breanna Antoniades*
> Production Manager
> 
> Players Guild Theatre
> 6000 Frank Ave NW
> North Canton, OH 44720
> www.playersguildtheatre.com
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> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:14:17 -0400
> From: Fred Sternfeld <fredsternfeld at neohiopal.org>
> To: post at neohiopal.org
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] PLEASE read this regarding an existential
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> Hello Everybody,
> 
> As you know, we normally try to keep the Neohiopal list to items that are
> more obviously performing arts related and away from politics. I would
> argue that the possible election of certain politicians are an existential
> threat to free speech and therefore an existential threat to the arts.
> 
> So I pass this article from Heather Cox Richardson to you.
> 
> "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
> 
> Fred
> 
> -------------------------
>> From Heather Cox Richardson
> <https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/about>...
> 
> October 21, 2024 (Monday)
> On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
> predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living
> in the United States would be ?bloody.? He also promised to prosecute his
> political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives,
> donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint
> Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is ?a
> fascist to the core?the most dangerous person to this country.?
> On October 14, Trump told Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo that he
> thought enemies within the United States were more dangerous than foreign
> adversaries and that he thought the military should stop those ?radical
> left lunatics? on Election Day. Since then, he has been talking a lot about
> ?the enemy from within,? specifically naming Representative Adam Schiff and
> former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats from California, as ?bad
> people.? Schiff was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee that
> broke the 2019 story of Trump?s attempt to extort Volodymyr Zelensky that
> led to Trump?s first impeachment.
> Trump?s references to the ?enemy from within? have become so frequent that
> former White House press secretary turned political analyst Jen Psaki has
> called them his closing argument for the 2024 election, and she warned that
> his construction of those who oppose him as ?enemies? might sweep in
> virtually anyone he feels is a threat.
> In a searing article today, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer of The
> Cycle explored exactly what that means in a piece titled ?What (Really)
> Happens If Trump Wins?? Bitecofer outlined Adolf Hitler?s January 30, 1933,
> oath of office, in which he promised Germans he would uphold the
> constitution, and the three months he took to dismantle that constitution.
> By March, she notes, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first
> prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler?s prominent political opponents.
> By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition
> political parties were illegal. By May, labor unions were banned and
> students were burning banned books. Within the year, public criticism of
> Hitler and the Nazis was illegal, and denouncing violators paid well for
> those who did it.
> Bitecofer writes that Trump has promised mass deportations ?that he cannot
> deliver unless he violates both the Constitution and federal law.? To
> enable that policy, Trump will need to dismantle the merit-based civil
> service and put into office those loyal to him rather than the
> Constitution. And then he will purge his political opponents, for once
> those who would stand against him are purged, Trump can act as he wishes
> against immigrants, for example, and others.
> Ninety years ago, as American reporter Dorothy Thompson ate breakfast at
> her hotel in Berlin on August 25, 1934, a young man from Hitler?s secret
> police, the Gestapo, ?politely handed me a letter and requested a signed
> receipt.? She thought nothing of it, she said, ?But what a surprise was in
> store for me!? The letter informed her that, ?in light of your numerous
> anti-German publications,? she was being expelled from Germany.
> She was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, and that
> expulsion was no small thing. Thompson had moved to London in 1920 to
> become a foreign correspondent and began to spend time in Berlin. In 1924
> she moved to the city to head the Central European Bureau for the New York
> Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. From there, she reported
> on the rise of Adolf Hitler. She left her Berlin post in 1928 to marry
> novelist Sinclair Lewis, and the two settled in Vermont.
> When the couple traveled to Sweden in 1930 for Lewis to accept the Nobel
> Prize in Literature, Thompson visited Germany, where she saw the growing
> strength of the fascists and the apparent inability of the Nazi?s opponents
> to come together to stand against them. She continued to visit the country
> in the following years, reporting on the rise of fascism there, and
> elsewhere.
> In 1931, Thompson interviewed Hitler and declared that, rather than ?the
> future dictator of Germany? she had expected to meet, he was a man of
> ?startling insignificance.? She asked him if he would ?abolish the
> constitution of the German Republic.? He answered: ?I will get into power
> legally? and, once in power, abolish the parliament and the constitution
> and ?found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest
> instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above,
> discipline and obedience below.? She did not believe he could succeed:
> ?Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to
> vote away their rights,? she wrote in apparent astonishment.
> Thompson was back in Berlin in summer 1934 as a representative of the
> Saturday Evening Post when she received the news that she had 24 hours to
> leave the country. The other foreign correspondents in Berlin saw her off
> at the railway station with ?great sheaves of American Beauty roses.?
> Safely in Paris, Thompson mused that in her first years in Germany she had
> gotten to know many of the officials of the German republic, and that when
> she had left to marry Lewis, they offered ?many expressions of friendship
> and gratitude.? But times had changed. ?I thought of them sadly as my train
> pulled out,? she said, ?carrying me away from Berlin. Some of those
> officials still are in the service of the German Government, some of them
> are ?migr?s and some of them are dead.?
> Thompson came home to a nation where many of the same dark impulses were
> simmering, her fame after her expulsion from Germany following her. She
> lectured against fascism across the country in 1935, then began a radio
> program that reached tens of millions of listeners. Hired in 1936 to write
> a regular column three days a week for the New York Herald Tribune, she
> became a leading voice in print, too, warning that what was happening in
> Germany could also happen in America.
> In an echo of Lewis?s bestselling 1935 novel It Can?t Happen Here, she
> wrote in a 1937 column: ?No people ever recognize their dictator in
> advance?. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the
> Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always
> think of some foreign model. If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots
> and a grim look he would be recognized and shunned?. But when our dictator
> turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will
> stand for everything traditionally American.?
> In less than two years, the circulation of her column had grown to reach
> between seven and eight million people. In 1939 a reporter wrote: ?She is
> read, believed and quoted by millions of women who used to get their
> political opinions from their husbands, who got them from [political
> commentator] Walter Lippmann.? The reporter likened Thompson to First Lady
> Eleanor Roosevelt, saying they were the two ?most influential women in the
> U.S.?
> When 22,000 American Nazis held a rally at New York City?s Madison Square
> Garden in honor of President George Washington?s birthday on February 20,
> 1939, Thompson sat in the front row of the press box, where she laughed
> loudly during the speeches and yelled ?Bunk!? at the stage, illustrating
> that she would not be muzzled by Nazis. After being escorted out, she
> returned to her seat, where stormtroopers surrounded her. She later told a
> reporter: ?I was amazed to see a duplicate of what I saw seven years ago in
> Germany. Tonight I listened to words taken out of the mouth of Adolf
> Hitler.?
> Two years later, In 1941, Thompson returned to the issue she had raised
> when she mused about those government officials who had gone from thanking
> her to expelling her. In a piece for Harper?s Magazine titled ?Who Goes
> Nazi?? she wrote: ?It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to
> play at a large gathering of one?s acquaintances: to speculate who in a
> showdown would go Nazi,? she wrote. ?By now, I think I know. I have gone
> through the experience many times?in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I
> have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy
> itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know
> those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.?
> Examining a number of types of Americans, she wrote that the line between
> democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age, or
> nationality. ?Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,?
> she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new
> ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy
> that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too
> easygoing to join a struggle. ?But the frustrated and humiliated
> intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor
> tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of
> success?they would all go Nazi in a crisis,? she wrote. ?Those who haven?t
> anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don?t?whether it
> is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or
> however modern, go Nazi.?
> In Paris following her expulsion from Berlin, Thompson told a reporter for
> the Associated Press that the reason she had been attacked was the same
> reason that Hitler?s power was growing. ?Chancellor Hitler is no longer a
> man, he is a religion,? she said.
> Suggesting her expulsion was because of her old article disparaging Hitler,
> in her own article about her expulsion she noted: ?My offense was to think
> that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime against the
> reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to
> save the German people?. To question this mystic mission is so heinous
> that, if you are a German, you can be sent to jail. I, fortunately, am an
> American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things can happen?.?
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:32:33 +0000
> From: Donald Carrier <dcarrier at clevelandplayhouse.com>
> To: "neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org" <neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] TUITION-FREE MFA ACTING TRAINING IN NEOHIO!
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> RANKED AS ONE OF THE TOP 12 MFA ACTING PROGRAMS IN THE WORLD ? THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 2024
> 
> 
> The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program will be seeing audition candidates in 2024 and 2025 through URTA (URTA.com) as well as through our own private auditions.
> 
> 
> 
> We are looking for committed young artists who possess a love of language, an empathy for the human experience, a vivid imagination and the desire to develop the necessary physical and vocal skills for a successful and sustained career in the ever-evolving performing arts scene.
> 
> 
> 
> FULL THREE-YEAR TUITION WAIVER, a generous yearly living stipend, healthcare and membership in AEA upon successful completion of the program.
> 
> 
> 
> We are one of the only MFA programs in the country that charges NO AUDITION FEES.
> 
> 
> 
> For more information and to register for an audition, please visit
> 
> 
> https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/education/cwrucph-mfa/auditions
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> AUDITIONING IN-PERSON IN CLEVELAND, DECEMBER 7 and 8, 2024.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:24:52 -0400
> From: Eric Bartkowski <bartkowskie at gmail.com>
> To: Jean Chewning via NEohioPAL <neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] Olmsted Falls Middle School presents ?We Will
> 	Rock You? (Oct 24-26)
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> On behalf of the 47 6th-8th graders that make up the AMAZING Bulldog
> Theatre Company at Olmsted Falls Middle School, I'd like to invite you to
> our production of *We Will Rock You!*
> 
> Featuring chart-topping Queen songs including ?Another One Bites the Dust,?
> ?Bohemian Rhapsody,? ?Killer Queen,? ?We Will Rock You,? ?Somebody To
> Love,? ?We Are the Champions,? and many more, this 70-minute adaptation of
> the West End show follows two young rebels as they restore rock ?n? roll to
> ?the iPlanet? in a post-apocalyptic world. *We Will Rock You* is a musical
> for our time: a fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.
> 
> Performances are *October 24, 25, and 26th at 7:00pm in the Olmsted Falls
> Middle School Cafeteria (27045 Bagley Road, Olmsted Falls)*
> 
> Tickets can be purchased at the door ($5 for adults, $3 for students, free
> for seniors, cash or check).
> 
> Consider bringing some additional money with you to the show for the
> following opportunities:
> * Bracelets, with proceeds benefiting the OFMS Rachel's Closet program.
> * A Raffle for a *Fender Squier Stratocaster*, with proceeds benefiting the
> BTC and Cleveland Public Theatre?s Act Now program.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for supporting live
> theatre in our community!
> 
> Rock on,
> Eric Bartkowski
> (6th grade teacher and director of the Bulldog Theatre Company)
> 
> 
>  *In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we
> understand. We will understand only what we are taught.*
> -Baba Dioum
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:27:54 -0500
> From: services at auroracommunitytheatre.com
> To: Post <post at neohiopal.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] Play On! Auditions at Aurora Community Theatre
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> Auditions for Play On!
> https://www.auroracommunitytheatre.com/upcoming-auditions
> 
> Directed by Brian Westerley
> 
> AUDITION DATES
> Sunday, Nov. 17, 7-9pm
> Tuesday, Nov. 19, 7-9pm
> 
> PERFORMANCE DATES
> January 17 - February 8, 2025
> Fri & Sat shows @ 7:30pm
> 
> One plucky community theater is about to produce a show called Murder 
> Most Foul, a new ?murder mystery play? with the same title as an Agatha 
> Christie novel but with no relation whatsoever. The director/theater 
> manager, Gerry, thought producing the play was a good idea since the 
> inexperienced playwright has agreed to let the company perform the show 
> for no charge. Gerry, however, had no idea what disasters awaited her: 
> the show is hilariously amateur, the ?murder mystery? plot doesn?t 
> really have a murder, and to top it off the playwright keeps changing 
> the story and script only two days from its premiere! It doesn?t help 
> that the cast is disgruntled, and the playwright accidentally deletes 
> the entire sound effect board. All of the disasters come to fruition in 
> Act III when the company performs the actual show with hilarious mishaps 
> at every turn. Play On! is a hilarious love letter to community theater.
> 
> ?Play On!? is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on 
> behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
> 
> https://www.auroracommunitytheatre.com/upcoming-auditions
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:44:21 +0000
> From: Marketing <marketing at clevelandplayhouse.com>
> To: "neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org" <neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] A Christmas Story at Cleveland Play House
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> Cleveland Play House presents A Christmas Story, by Philip Grecian, directed by Jackson Gay based on the motion picture written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark, running at the Allen Theatre November 30 - December 22.
> 
> Cleveland?s favorite holiday tradition is back by popular demand as an all new production! One boy. One holiday wish. And a world conspiring to make sure it doesn?t come true. The record-breaking show returns to the Allen Theatre in all its pink-bunny-suit, glowing-leg-lamp, triple-dog-daring glory. The perfect holiday treat for the entire family!
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:45:58 +0000
> From: Marketing <marketing at clevelandplayhouse.com>
> To: "neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org" <neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] The Cherry Orchard: Case Western
> 	Reserve/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program Production
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> The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program presents The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, November 6 -16 in the Helen Theatre.
> 
> The Cherry Orchard follows a family of down-on-their-luck aristocrats as they grapple with the prospect of selling their beloved estate. As the cherry trees blossom, so do the complexities of love, loss, and the relentless passage of time. This theatrical masterpiece explores what happens when echoes of the past meet the inevitability of change. The Cherry Orchard reveals complex and colorful characters that blend humor and heartache as they encounter the absurdities that abound in simply leading one?s life. This literary classic by Anton Chekhov springs to life in a production featuring the Class of 2026.
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> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:06:32 -0400
> From: Jim Volkert <bovolkert at gmail.com>
> To: Fred Sternfeld <fredsternfeld at neohiopal.org>
> Cc: post at neohiopal.org
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> Stay out of politics!
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:17?AM Fred Sternfeld via NEohioPAL <
> neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Everybody,
>> 
>> As you know, we normally try to keep the Neohiopal list to items that are
>> more obviously performing arts related and away from politics. I would
>> argue that the possible election of certain politicians are an existential
>> threat to free speech and therefore an existential threat to the arts.
>> 
>> So I pass this article from Heather Cox Richardson to you.
>> 
>> "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> From Heather Cox Richardson
>> <https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/about>...
>> 
>> October 21, 2024 (Monday)
>> On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
>> predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living
>> in the United States would be ?bloody.? He also promised to prosecute his
>> political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives,
>> donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint
>> Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is ?a
>> fascist to the core?the most dangerous person to this country.?
>> On October 14, Trump told Fox News Channel host Maria Bartiromo that he
>> thought enemies within the United States were more dangerous than foreign
>> adversaries and that he thought the military should stop those ?radical
>> left lunatics? on Election Day. Since then, he has been talking a lot about
>> ?the enemy from within,? specifically naming Representative Adam Schiff and
>> former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats from California, as ?bad
>> people.? Schiff was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee that
>> broke the 2019 story of Trump?s attempt to extort Volodymyr Zelensky that
>> led to Trump?s first impeachment.
>> Trump?s references to the ?enemy from within? have become so frequent that
>> former White House press secretary turned political analyst Jen Psaki has
>> called them his closing argument for the 2024 election, and she warned that
>> his construction of those who oppose him as ?enemies? might sweep in
>> virtually anyone he feels is a threat.
>> In a searing article today, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer of The
>> Cycle explored exactly what that means in a piece titled ?What (Really)
>> Happens If Trump Wins?? Bitecofer outlined Adolf Hitler?s January 30, 1933,
>> oath of office, in which he promised Germans he would uphold the
>> constitution, and the three months he took to dismantle that constitution.
>> By March, she notes, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first
>> prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler?s prominent political opponents.
>> By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition
>> political parties were illegal. By May, labor unions were banned and
>> students were burning banned books. Within the year, public criticism of
>> Hitler and the Nazis was illegal, and denouncing violators paid well for
>> those who did it.
>> Bitecofer writes that Trump has promised mass deportations ?that he cannot
>> deliver unless he violates both the Constitution and federal law.? To
>> enable that policy, Trump will need to dismantle the merit-based civil
>> service and put into office those loyal to him rather than the
>> Constitution. And then he will purge his political opponents, for once
>> those who would stand against him are purged, Trump can act as he wishes
>> against immigrants, for example, and others.
>> Ninety years ago, as American reporter Dorothy Thompson ate breakfast at
>> her hotel in Berlin on August 25, 1934, a young man from Hitler?s secret
>> police, the Gestapo, ?politely handed me a letter and requested a signed
>> receipt.? She thought nothing of it, she said, ?But what a surprise was in
>> store for me!? The letter informed her that, ?in light of your numerous
>> anti-German publications,? she was being expelled from Germany.
>> She was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, and that
>> expulsion was no small thing. Thompson had moved to London in 1920 to
>> become a foreign correspondent and began to spend time in Berlin. In 1924
>> she moved to the city to head the Central European Bureau for the New York
>> Evening Post and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. From there, she reported
>> on the rise of Adolf Hitler. She left her Berlin post in 1928 to marry
>> novelist Sinclair Lewis, and the two settled in Vermont.
>> When the couple traveled to Sweden in 1930 for Lewis to accept the Nobel
>> Prize in Literature, Thompson visited Germany, where she saw the growing
>> strength of the fascists and the apparent inability of the Nazi?s opponents
>> to come together to stand against them. She continued to visit the country
>> in the following years, reporting on the rise of fascism there, and
>> elsewhere.
>> In 1931, Thompson interviewed Hitler and declared that, rather than ?the
>> future dictator of Germany? she had expected to meet, he was a man of
>> ?startling insignificance.? She asked him if he would ?abolish the
>> constitution of the German Republic.? He answered: ?I will get into power
>> legally? and, once in power, abolish the parliament and the constitution
>> and ?found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest
>> instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above,
>> discipline and obedience below.? She did not believe he could succeed:
>> ?Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to
>> vote away their rights,? she wrote in apparent astonishment.
>> Thompson was back in Berlin in summer 1934 as a representative of the
>> Saturday Evening Post when she received the news that she had 24 hours to
>> leave the country. The other foreign correspondents in Berlin saw her off
>> at the railway station with ?great sheaves of American Beauty roses.?
>> Safely in Paris, Thompson mused that in her first years in Germany she had
>> gotten to know many of the officials of the German republic, and that when
>> she had left to marry Lewis, they offered ?many expressions of friendship
>> and gratitude.? But times had changed. ?I thought of them sadly as my train
>> pulled out,? she said, ?carrying me away from Berlin. Some of those
>> officials still are in the service of the German Government, some of them
>> are ?migr?s and some of them are dead.?
>> Thompson came home to a nation where many of the same dark impulses were
>> simmering, her fame after her expulsion from Germany following her. She
>> lectured against fascism across the country in 1935, then began a radio
>> program that reached tens of millions of listeners. Hired in 1936 to write
>> a regular column three days a week for the New York Herald Tribune, she
>> became a leading voice in print, too, warning that what was happening in
>> Germany could also happen in America.
>> In an echo of Lewis?s bestselling 1935 novel It Can?t Happen Here, she
>> wrote in a 1937 column: ?No people ever recognize their dictator in
>> advance?. He always represents himself as the instrument for expressing the
>> Incorporated National Will. When Americans think of dictators they always
>> think of some foreign model. If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots
>> and a grim look he would be recognized and shunned?. But when our dictator
>> turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will
>> stand for everything traditionally American.?
>> In less than two years, the circulation of her column had grown to reach
>> between seven and eight million people. In 1939 a reporter wrote: ?She is
>> read, believed and quoted by millions of women who used to get their
>> political opinions from their husbands, who got them from [political
>> commentator] Walter Lippmann.? The reporter likened Thompson to First Lady
>> Eleanor Roosevelt, saying they were the two ?most influential women in the
>> U.S.?
>> When 22,000 American Nazis held a rally at New York City?s Madison Square
>> Garden in honor of President George Washington?s birthday on February 20,
>> 1939, Thompson sat in the front row of the press box, where she laughed
>> loudly during the speeches and yelled ?Bunk!? at the stage, illustrating
>> that she would not be muzzled by Nazis. After being escorted out, she
>> returned to her seat, where stormtroopers surrounded her. She later told a
>> reporter: ?I was amazed to see a duplicate of what I saw seven years ago in
>> Germany. Tonight I listened to words taken out of the mouth of Adolf
>> Hitler.?
>> Two years later, In 1941, Thompson returned to the issue she had raised
>> when she mused about those government officials who had gone from thanking
>> her to expelling her. In a piece for Harper?s Magazine titled ?Who Goes
>> Nazi?? she wrote: ?It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to
>> play at a large gathering of one?s acquaintances: to speculate who in a
>> showdown would go Nazi,? she wrote. ?By now, I think I know. I have gone
>> through the experience many times?in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I
>> have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy
>> itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know
>> those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.?
>> Examining a number of types of Americans, she wrote that the line between
>> democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age, or
>> nationality. ?Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,?
>> she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new
>> ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy
>> that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too
>> easygoing to join a struggle. ?But the frustrated and humiliated
>> intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor
>> tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of
>> success?they would all go Nazi in a crisis,? she wrote. ?Those who haven?t
>> anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don?t?whether it
>> is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or
>> however modern, go Nazi.?
>> In Paris following her expulsion from Berlin, Thompson told a reporter for
>> the Associated Press that the reason she had been attacked was the same
>> reason that Hitler?s power was growing. ?Chancellor Hitler is no longer a
>> man, he is a religion,? she said.
>> Suggesting her expulsion was because of her old article disparaging
>> Hitler, in her own article about her expulsion she noted: ?My offense was
>> to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime
>> against the reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a Messiah
>> sent by God to save the German people?. To question this mystic mission is
>> so heinous that, if you are a German, you can be sent to jail. I,
>> fortunately, am an American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things
>> can happen?.?
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