By Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
October 13, 2025
History
In 1936, the Nazi dictatorship in Germany organized SiPo, or Sicherheitspolizei.
The move merged the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) and the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo, the criminal police). SiPo targeted political opposition to the Nazis, primarily communists and socialists.
In early 1941, the Wehrmacht chief of staff Franz Halder targeted unarmed socialists and communists. It used the Einsatzgruppen death squads to murder them.
"Entire hordes of communists are now being shot and hanged on an almost daily basis," Second Lieutenant Peter Geissler of the 714th Infantry Division wrote home in July, 1941.
"I cannot help feeling that the panic fear of the Western world of the term communism, this fear by which the fascists have so long maintained themselves, is somewhat superstitious and childish and one of the greatest follies of our epoch," wrote Thomas wrote after the war.
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Is Folly Emerging in America under the Rule of President Donald Trump?
On October 8, the Trump administration held a briefing on Antifa, the autonomous and decentralized anti-fascist political movement. During this meeting, the MAGA influencer Jonathan Choe linked Antifa to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
"Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America," Choe said. He argued that Antifa is part of what he called the "homeless complex."
Video: White House Roundtable on ANTIFA
Trump considers his political opponents, who are primarily Democrats, to be not only socialists, but also communists, Marxists, fascists, and, most tellingly, "enemies from within."
Last October, he said the
"crazy lunatics that we have-the fascists, the Marxists, the communists, the people that we have that are actually running the country...
Those people are more dangerous-the enemy from within-than Russia and China and other people."
More recently, during a military conclave at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia, Trump insisted the United States is "under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration will use the same tactic it is using against Venezuelan fishermen, falsely accused of being "narcoterrorists."
In short, murdering political enemies without arrest and due process. "Just like we did with cartels" Bondi said,
"we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa. Destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We're going to take them apart."
Former US Navy intelligence officer and alt-right activist Jack Posobiec said during the roundtable that Antifa "has been going on for almost 100 years... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany." Posobiec appears to be saying that the anti-fascist movement aligned against Hitler and the Nazis was a bad thing.
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