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Here's a story told by Elsbeth Emmerich a schoolgirl in wartime Germany. Teachers and all other people working in state jobs had to be members of the Party, Elsbeth's mother a keen sportswomen took up coaching young athletes during the early war years. Not long after there was a knock at the door, a strange man with notebook and pencil and Nazi pin in his lapel, said that he'd heard about her mother and her achievements. He had found out that she was not a member of the Party when he checked his records. No doubt it was just an oversight he went on, and would she join? he had his pencil at the ready but her mother said firmly "NO". She did not want to become a member of the Party. He said you realise you cannot keep your position as coach to our young girls, unless you are a member of the Party. Her mum said surely coaching had nothing to do with politics, and that being a Party member would not make her a better coach. However, the man with the Party pin knew better and her mother had to give up a much cherished job. People were reprimanded for failing to give the Heil Hitler salute. Names were taken of householders who did not have the oblig-atory portrait of Hitler on their walls, and failure to put out a Nazi flag on Hitlers birthday brought a knock at the door from the polizei. 

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Germany was a difficult place to live in that period, If someone held a grudge against you they would make some offence up or blatently lie to the gestapo or kripo and it would not be long before you got a chap at the door and were under investigation.

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  • 7 years later...

That can still happen, not just in Germany.

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Forgot to mention in last comment, an important observation - Corona is the new faschism, it can mobilise the hatred of the press and the masses, experienced daily.

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