Tuesday, December 09, 2008




Domestic Spying and the Banning of Dissent?

October 12, 2007
by Zen Garcia

In 1933, the Nazi SS established Dachua as the first concentration camp to house thousands of German political prisoners, whose ideas and belief systems were considered a threat to the then authoritarian regime. At first, mainly Jewish authors and artists whose words and works were considered subversive were subjected to arrest, economic restrictions, and various forms of harsh discrimination.

The earliest targets for Nazi persecution in Germany were political opponents--primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade union leaders identified by a large secretive domestic spying program which monitored the activities of the populace for the Nazi SS. The program was later expanded to include people with disabilities, those with homosexual leanings, and anyone else that opposed totalitarian rule.



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