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sheshe2

(98,463 posts) Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:20 PM Jun 2025

Anne Frank: Terrible things are happening outside.

Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.

Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.

-Anne Frank
13 January 1943

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Anne Frank: Terrible things are happening outside. (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2025 OP

June 6, 2025 - I once thought those days were history. Jim__ Jun 2025 #1

Why book banning has to be fought at every turn. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2025 #4

Anne enid602 Jun 2025 #2

"Can't happen here" sure is taking a beating in this country, Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #3

Sinclair Lewis wrote that novel in 1935 localroger Jun 2025 #6

How long before we are hiding people in attics in this country? Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #5

I pinned the attached image on my Twitter (currently known as X) account ... aggiesal Jun 2025 #7

Jim__

(15,277 posts)

1. June 6, 2025 - I once thought those days were history.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:26 PM

Jun 2025

dixiegrrrrl

(60,175 posts)

4. Why book banning has to be fought at every turn.

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:38 PM

Jun 2025

Her book is often among the banned.
It ought to be required reading,

enid602

(9,755 posts)

2. Anne

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:33 PM

Jun 2025

How things have changed! These days, they have no homes to go to. There are no markets at which to shop. No longer schools at which to study. I don’t think Anne would approve of these changes.

Jack Valentino

(5,252 posts)

3. "Can't happen here" sure is taking a beating in this country,

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:34 PM

Jun 2025

right about now.....

localroger

(3,782 posts)

6. Sinclair Lewis wrote that novel in 1935

Reply to Jack Valentino (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:50 PM

Jun 2025

...about the US. Before we even knew of the horrors of Nazi Germany. Given the number of Hitler fans in the US when Japan forced us to decisively take the other side in the war, had the Nazi horrors not been revealed it's quite likely we would have seen the prescience of Lewis' vision sixty or seventy years ago.

Irish_Dem

(82,356 posts)

5. How long before we are hiding people in attics in this country?

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:28 PM

Jun 2025

POC, pregnant women, LGBT.

Old people who live too long.

aggiesal

(10,915 posts)

7. I pinned the attached image on my Twitter (currently known as X) account ...

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:31 PM

Jun 2025

I didn't reference Anne Frank, because I want people to bite, thinking it has something to do with our current situation.

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