Signs You Might Be a Nazi
Remember the true horrors of the Holocaust today and every day.
Speaking to the large crowd at the 2025 National March for Life in Washington, DC, Vice President JD Vance said, “Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another as a core part of living in a society. So let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America.”
To which more than a few people on social media responded: “The Nazis wanted more babies too. So much so they barred married women from working and created the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.” That is an actual quote on X.
According to the UK’s National Holocaust Center and Museum, “The Cross of Honour of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter) was introduced by the Nazi party by Statutory Order on December 16, 1938. The gold award was given to mothers of eight or more children.”
It’s a dramatic leap from encouraging an increase in births in the United States, which has been experiencing historically low birth rates over the last several years, to the Nazi Lebensborn program, which encouraged “the birth of children deemed ‘racially valuable’ in order to increase Germany’s ‘Aryan’ population.”
Fact: Everything that is said over the next four years is going to be put through the “Trump is a Nazi” test. It’s good to be on alert for signs that our government is steering in a dangerous direction. See how easily, though, words can be twisted when one is anxiously anticipating danger signs.
Vance was speaking to a crowd of pro-life supporters; of course he was going to say people should have more babies. He didn't say he only wanted white babies or physically and mentally healthy babies. Or that non-white and unhealthy children should be discarded, as the Nazis did.
The words Nazism, Fascism and Communism shouldn’t be thrown about lightly in articles or public conversations. History shows that millions of people suffered persecution or death at the hands of evil humans who embraced these political ideologies. Today, on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Memorial Day, we should remember the people affected by those horrors and not try to equate current situations to them.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious differences between REAL Nazis and the ones people claim are because of their political beliefs. Sadly, the name callers often behave like actual Nazi practices themselves.
Many must not fully grasp Hitler's philosophy to make such charges and point to "similarities".
In essence, the Nazis believed in the superiority of the "Aryan" race, which they regarded as the "master race." Their goal was to purify and expand this group while establishing a totalitarian empire led by a singular leader. The Nazis' genocidal policies included the extermination of Jews and the displacement, enslavement, or genocide of entire Slavic populations in areas such as Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, to make space for German settlers.
There is a vast difference between those who value all human life and the Nazis, who viewed non-Germans as inferior—subhuman. Moreover, there is a significant distinction between removing illegal immigrants from a country's territory and the Nazi policy of murdering or forcibly removing entire populations from their own lands for territorial expansion.