Just suppose

[ritaxis]

You're a German in 1932, and you have some prescience.

What should you be doing?

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I think it's 1932 right now, not 1928.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I think that the opportunities to change things from within Germany were more limited than those from without - there's a lot that wasn't done, and could have been done. Strengthening the surrounding countries so they wouldn't fall over so quickly, for instance, organising an underground railway-type thing, sabotaging the efficient killing mechanisms of the death camps, and above all setting up a much more efficient propaganda machinery that would have kept Germans informed, or at least much more wary of what was going on in their own country.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a different question.

If 40% of people are in favour of the Nazis and you're afraid they're going to parlay that into 100% of the power, you can try talking to the other 60% to make them see how bad the 40% are, you can try nibbling around the edges of the issues for the 40%, you can write things that can try to make a butterfly wing difference so that they don't have elections that are 49% either way and stealable.

Or you can move to Canada, as I did in 2002, however selfish infernal might think it.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's that bad yet, but I would have to stay because no countries take disabled old people as immigrants. I'd have to try to get others out instead.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah. There is the root of the question. What's your reasoning, here? For the moment, at least, the radical right is out of power, their opposition is fairly unified, and the world situation is very different. It doesn't seem to me very similar to Germany in 1932; I think we've already stepped off the road to reactionary authoritarianism, though not all battles are won yet. What parallels are you seeing?