The Warning Signs Were Here

Immigrants who experienced Nazi Germany educated their grandkids about government oppression.

Part 1: Scorning the Little People & Their Cries for Help
Part 2: What Did You Want Me To Do? Lose Everything?
Part 3: The Warning Signs Were Here

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Brigitte Belton, the Ontario cross border trucker who sparked the Freedom Convoy, is the daughter and granddaughter of German immigrants. While testifying before an Emergencies Act hearing recently, she mentioned her paternal granddad.

Horrific things had happened in his homeland, and she knew enough about those events to start worrying about the direction in which pandemic Canada was heading:

he explained to me what it was like to be in Nazi Germany. He told me about the snitch lines, that if you wanted your neighbour's piano…you just called up the Nazi snitch lines and they would take care of the family and you would go and get their belongings. He talked to me about children who would go to school and the teachers would ask ‘What did your parents talk about last night?’ and they would come home and find their families murdered because they said bad things about Hitler.

The warning signs were here. We had people snitching on people at Christmastime…we watched Quebec police officers pull people out of those homes, throw them to the ground and arrest them because they were spending time with their family. We were headed down the road that my grandfather talked to me about.

I don't want to live that way.

[p. 336 of the official transcript, or at 9:38:00 minutes on this video]