Is the United States becoming like Germany in the 1930s? Yes and no.

By: Steven E. Mayer

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: March 31, 2026

Words: 1,021

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Editor’s note: This essay is now being incorporated into an emergency collection of prose and poems called ICE OUT: MINNESOTA AUTHORS RISING UP, published by Minnesota-based Afton Press and Calumet Editions.

“Was Germany in the 1930s anything like the US now?”

I get asked that a lot, not because I was there but because my parents were, and my father left behind plenty of papers and correspondence for me to study – which …

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