Jews in 1932 Voted for Hitler, and They Paid for That Vote With Their Lives

Latinos should think about that history before casting votes for Trump.

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In 1932, a group called the Association of German National Jews cast tens of thousands of votes for Adolf Hitler. Middle-class, anti-communist, small business owners, and nationalistic World War I veterans, the men and women of this association believed that Hitler was merely playing up the antisemitic rhetoric to “stir up the masses” to vote for him.

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The group’s leader, Max Naumann, did all he could to get the Nazis to accept him and his group. Naumann was publicly against the “eastern Jews” coming to Germany from Slavic countries like Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Many middle-class Jews in Germany regarded the Eastern Jews as beneath them because they were farmers, overtly religious, and not assimilated into German society — kind of the way many Latinos and Hispanics living in the U.S. regard those not living here.

Naumann’s group was outlawed in 1935. In 1939, the Gestapo sent him to a concentration camp outside of Berlin. He was released after a few weeks and died shortly after…