Nazi terminology serves to dehumanize

In June 1942, the entire village of Lidice, in what is now the Czech Republic, was destroyed in retribution for the assassination of Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich.

All 173 men were shot and the women and children were sent to concentration camps, except for two who had Arian features.

This was the unwritten Nazi policy of collective retribution, “Sippenhaft.” In January 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had a sign on her podium that read, “One of ours, All of yours.”

We have a Nazi problem.

The administration’s continued use of dehumanizing and degrading language toward immigrants and fascist and Nazi terminology in describing their goals is no coincidence.

A recent speech by Stephen Miller was rife with Nazi terminology. Snopes noted the striking similarities between it and “The Storm is Coming” by Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph........

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