3 Nazi Laws that STILL EXIST TODAY! Part II | Feli from Germany

[@FelifromGermany]

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[@haileeraestout5567]

That's Crazy

[@haileeraestout5567]

The Murder Paragraph Law Is Also In Effect Here In The Us But It Depends On The Crime Like The US Takes This Law Very Seriously And It Comes With The Death Penalty So Yeah

[@michaelclark737]

So how do non-religious people get married in Germany? Do you have an equivalent to the U.S. "Justice of the Peace"? Can you just sign a paper with your partner in front of a Notary?

[@FelifromGermany]

@@michaelclark737 I have a whole video on weddings! :) But yes, you can just get married at the courthouse (which everyone has to do regardless) and then, if you want, you can do a non-religious ceremony at a non-church location but legally, you only need to go to the courthouse.

[@juavi6987]

There were also already a Konkordat with Bavaria and Prussia before, that became state-law of the successor states. It is actually dispute, afaik, if the Reichskonkordat is still a treaty in force, as it anyway has been transferred from the federal to state level with the new Basic Law in 1949. There was already church tax for the Protestant Churches in Prussia before and today also other some other religions finance themselves that way.

[@bialek.online]

you know what? you're really really good at breaking down somewhat obscure, or complex topics very clearly, in a memorable way.

[@exposethenwo6491]

In the United States, we are still paying a phone tax on landlines to fund the Spanish-American War

[@meemo32086]

How so? Phones didn't exist during that war.

[@icetwo]

@@meemo32086 Actually, yes. The telephone was invented in 1876 and the Spanish-American war was in 1889.

[@icetwo]

In Germany we also pay sparkling wine tax to finance the construction of the Imperial Fleet, i.e. the fleet that sank itself in Scappa Flow in 1919 to avoid confiscation. But I also find it interesting that apparently so much sparkling wine was drunk before the First World War that it could be used to finance a fleet

[@exposethenwo6491]

Here are more details. Most relevant section is towards the bottom

[@exposethenwo6491]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_telephone_excise_tax

[@pendragon2012]

It's crazy how many laws stay on the books just because people forget about them and don't enforce them, but then suddenly you get that one situation. Arizona was in the news for something similar recently. Always a pleasure, Feli! Hope you and Ben have a great Christmas!

[@vijayanchomatil8413]

What about Arizona??

[@Booger-u6m]

A good example of this is a law here in South Carolina, USA, that said a man could take his wife down to the local courthouse on Sunday and beat her with a "rod" no bigger than his thumb. Someone found out about this and raised a stink about it, even though no one had done such a thing in decades, resulting in bad P.R. that prompted the legislature to repeal the law in 2014. Another example is child marriage, which is legal in many US states, something I'm quite fond of reminding people about whenever they start screaming about the practice in predominantly Muslim countries. (Of course, their real concern isn't child marriage, but Islam.) Children as young as 12 can marry in several states, subject to certain conditions. Here in South Carolina, the legal age for marriage was 14 for girls and 16 for boys (with a parent's consent), but girls as young as 10 have been married in this state since 1990. The law was changed and now requires both parties to be at least 16, unless one or both have been previously married or given "live birth" (baby lives 24 hrs). However, not every state has raised the minimum age for marriage and it remains at 14 or so in a few. These laws have been in effect for a century or more and reflect a time when America was more rural, sanitation and medical care were still rather basic, many farms and businesses were family owned, and life expectancy was considerably lower than today. And, of course, there are many laws that have been on the books since colonial times, but which hadn't been used in many years; consequently, we forgot about them. That is, until someone finds one and dusts it off. About 30 years ago, one man here in (of course) South Carolina sued a video poker parlor to recoup thousands of dollars he lost through gambling on the basis of a 17th century law that allowed anyone who lost more than $20 through gambling to get their money back. If I remember right, he won. (Video poker is illegal in S.C. now, along with most other forms of gambling.) There are many other laws on the books in every jurisdiction which people have forgotten about over the years because no one has bothered to apply or enforce them for generations, plus all the laws that have been declared unconstitutional (e.g., atheists can't run for public office), but which remain on the books, unenforceable, because the relevant legislative bodies either don't have time to remove them or keep them in place out of resentment and defiance.

[@evildude109]

Arizona banned abortion in the 1860s, then that law became unenforceable in the 1970s, then came back into power after Roe v. Wade was undone. It hadn't been removed in the intervening 50 years so obviously it was still there, and then people were very upset about it.

[@pendragon2012]

@@evildude109 Beat me to it. Thanks!

[@colder5465]

Actually, there should be no problem. The Nuremberg Tribunal stated that Nazi state was a criminal state. Not only Nazi officials were criminals but the state itself was criminal. Hence, all the laws written in the time of this state are criminal and must be repealed automatically. There shouldn't be any special procedure for their annulment. One of the reasons why the bulk of judges of Nazi time escaped justice was that the Nazis didn't write so many laws - they simply successfully used the criminal code of the previous regime. Yes, they twisted them in its own use but that was hard to prove and in the general atmosphere of leniency toward Nazi criminals in the western zones of occupation the Allies preferred to close their eyes toward it. There was new agenda: the cold war and Nazi judges were useful.

[@radiotec76]

Feli, I think you should consider a video on the German Gun Act of 1938. There is a lot of misconceptions about this law here in the U.S. that it was a law prohibiting gun ownership in Germany. I was schooled by a German on this law.

[@k.r.baylor8825]

The 1938 Weapons Law was an update of the Weimar 1928 firearms laws. If you were a NSDAP member, firearms ownership and usage was not prohibited, but encouraged. I think one of the most incredible aspects of post-1933 German law was an official encouragement of dueling. It was seen as a masculine way of settling debates. German universities had dueling clubs for decades, but the NSDAP extended that into its paramilitary formations and allowed firearms instead of just swords to be used. However, dueling was eventually banned in 1936, as the Nazis found out the same dilemma the US Navy encountered in the 1840s: expensively trained men were bumping themselves off over trivial matters such as the hand of a woman or a verbal insult. And that was costing the Reich real money to replace the losers.

[@steve3131]

@@k.r.baylor8825 At the time, incertain classes of German men, it was considered attractive to have a gash in the cheek from a dueling sword.

[@dalerobinson8051]

​Dueling clubs? Isn't it hard to increase the membership rolls?

[@TheSaneHatter]

Yes: many people opposed to gun control in the US have aggressively cited that law since at leat the 90s, calling anyone who favors gun regulation a "Nazi" and claiming that it's some kind of setup for a dictatorship or genocide.🙄 It also occurs to me that anti-environmentalists and the like would cite that animal cruelty law that Feli mentions, in support of their cause, in the same way that other causes and sciences have been falsely conflated with Nazism.

[@steve3131]

@TheSaneHatter similarly, antismoking campaigns were first initiated on a large scale in Nazi Germany. But part of the reason was they cancer research was advanced in the Weimar Republic, and it was then that German researcher suspected a link (they noted that lung cancer was much more prevalent among men and few women smoked back then). They had already established a link between cancer and aniline dyes which were first developed in Germany. The other thing us that the Nazis simply used slave laborers from concentration camps to perform work that involved exposure to carcinogens.

[@WNYfellow]

Here's an idea for a new US law: any US Foreign Service employee or commissioned military officer serving in Germany must subscribe to Feli from Germany. It is 'essential knowledge.'

[@_blank_3737]

lol, she about to get arrested from some country out there

[@Usrname.24]

Seems reasonable

[@theodorjosefeisenring675]

Not only in Germany. In most Swiss cantons, companies also have to pay church taxes. However, only natural persons can avoid taxes by declaring their withdrawal.

[@gregorygant4242]

Kirchensteuer , I thought that was only in Germany and Austria ?

[@kgspollux6998]

Immer mehr Kudos für dich, Felicia - so interessant und informativ ist dein Kanal. Ein Beitrag zum kulturellen Verständnis diverser gesellschafts-politischer Ursprünge und deren Niederschlag in Gesetze und Verordnungen, die zu Recht bis heute Gültigkeit haben, hebt dich über einen reinen Unterhaltungskanal weit hinaus. Bitte weiter so . . . !

[@LASLOEGRI]

For completeness we should note that with war imminent, the British government ordered all pets (dog, cats, birds) destroyed by owners or turned in to government killing centers. I can’t find evidence this was fear they’d compete for food or if the rulers used it as a test of citizen obedience. Either way a nasty abuse of power when animal companions would have been a comfort to the owners. It was the Russians who trained dogs to run under tanks while strapped with explosives but it wasn’t very successful. That the Nazis couldn’t evacuate 30,000 horses from Russia, provides context for this incident. When interviewed shortly after D-Day, a German soldier was asked why he surrendered when he could easily have fallen back to regroup safely. He said, “When we saw the huge amount of troops, vehicles and material pouring onto the beaches- there were no mules, no horses… everything was mechanized. We knew the war was lost.”

[@skasteve6528]

Actually, the British Government did not order the destruction of pets. They issued an advice pamphlet stating "If at all possible, send or take your household animals into the country in advance of an emergency." It concluded: "If you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed." Based on this, many people took their pets to vets, PDSA, RSPCA and Battersea dogs' home (who were all vehemently opposed to the idea), requesting that their pet be euthanised. There were no 'government killing centres' . The RSPCA and The Royal Army Veterinary Corps tried to stop this, but it is hard to contend with a panicked population. Around 750,000 pets were destroyed. Most euthanisations were carried out in late 1939 (the outbreak of the war) and late 1940 (the beginning of the Blitz). So a government pamphlet did lead to 750,000 pets being killed, but it was not their intention. Battersea Dogs' Home managed to feed and care for around 145,000 dogs during the war, with a permanent staff of four. When looking into the motivation for actions committed by the British Government (or any government really), never exclude the possibility of the cock up theory.

[@steve3131]

The belief that the Wehrmacht was heavily mechanized and invincible was heavily promoted by the Nazis themselves and pro Nazi propagandists such as Charles Lindbergh. The German Army was in fact still reliant on horses and mules although obviously less so than the Polish Army. It was their strategy of utilizing air support and keeping forces mobile that worked in relative small countries such as Poland or France (which had a modern army deployed in a way that harkened back to trench warfare in WW I) or the low countries that made the Germans seem unstoppable. When they invaded the Soviet Union, a vast country with terrible or non existent roads and extreme cold, the weaknesses of their strategies became all too apparent.

[@charleswelch249]

It's amazing how Germany took some laws and made them sensible. And they are still going today. Love your videos, and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

[@jsaaski]

Church tax in European context is arguably as old as the church itself. It has been paid by church members in labor or other means if money was not available. In many European countries the state collects the tax for the church and in exchange receives up-to-date vital records kept by the church.

[@PalimPalim-y7l]

Yeah, it is not a Nazi law. The Bundesrepublik actually adopted the Weimar Republic law for this. I guess for some people everything before 1949 is Nazi law.

[@JeroenJA]

Belgian has chruch subsidies, but paid from general tax incomes, --> you have no say , certainly not option NOT to contribute towards it! chruch attendency is low, and currently a lot of that money is considered more of keeping valuable chruches and such in an okay state for the next generation.. only the part were the state also pays priests and such is getting a bit more critic, certainly since the pedofile scandals in the catolic chruch.. debaptising has NO monetairy gain whatsoever, but nevertheless over 14.000 peoples asked to be debaptised in the catholic papers, out of disgust of not just the scandals themselves, but mostly of how the hierarchy of the catolique chruch spend way more time covering up then providing real support for the victums.. i myself consider debaptising myself for over 10 years now, but its no simple form here, i have made the effort yet..

[@petergrabner624]

Super Video! I love your informational videos still as German I can learn from them.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

I just now subscribed. I traveled to Germany for years on business and I love the country and her people. I must say, you speak absolutely PERFECT English with just a small hint of an accent. I look forward to your videos.

[@jimpalmer1969]

This is very interesting and it is very easy to forget the NAZIs were a political party and had to provide a public face that was acceptable to the population. The NAZIs were horrible, but there were things they did that were politically OK. I'm a 71 YO American and have tried my best to understand how AH became the worst mass murder in history. Over time I've had many German friends who chose not to speak of the NAZI atrocities. It must be very hard to do this, but I truly believe Feli's videos enter into a discussion about the dark German history. People need to understand how Europe evolved from feudal system of Kingdoms, then into the Holy Roman Empire that lacked clear borderers. The shaping of the Modern European Nation-States has never really been settled. Wars (Ukraine-Russia) are being fought today to define the borders. Conversations like these are a step towards the German people being able to regain their heritage. The Germans deal with WW2. Americans must deal with Slavery.

[@crazypiratesquirrel3038]

I don’t know if you actually read all of the comments Feli but I just wanted you to know that I absolutely love all of these history lessons that you post! ❤️

[@CowboyStag]

Merry Christmas Feli Feli

[@tommoriarty8361]

Another top class educational video from Feli 💗

[@rlrudedog]

This was very informative and interesting. I cannot get over how you can find some of these topics, without spending a good amount of time. Thanks for sharing. Have a great Christmas.

[@AbbyNormL]

In the US, not only do churches not pay taxes, but donations to that church can be deducted from the taxes of the person donating.

[@tobyk.4911]

that is also the case in Germany. Germans who pay church tax are being asked for the amount in their income tax declaration form, and the paid tax is deducted from the taxable income. And other (voluntary) donations to churches can also be considered for the calculation of the income tax, by deducting the amount from the taxed income. For me this means: I attend a church (in Germany) that does not collect church tax, but asks for tithes and donations. Early in each new year, I get a letter from my church that confirms how much money I have donated in the previous year, and I can then mention this number in my income tax declaration. My taxable income is reduced by that amount - in other words, for each 100€ that I donate to my church, I get back from the government about 35€ in the form of income tax reduction, so that I really only pay about 65€ of my own money... or to say it a bit different: a donation of about 300 costs me only about 200 - because the other 100 come from my income tax.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Only if you fill out long form taxes.

[@AbbyNormL]

@@jamesdellaneve9005 I have accountant do my taxes so he can find all of the deductions for me.

[@hamie7624]

based.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

@ And so are donations to BLM.

[@josealfonsosilvalatorre1826]

Merry chritsmas 😊🎄

[@raymondsusani3346]

Merry Christmas Feli

[@johnvickers5424]

Very good. I like that you do your research to bring true and non-biased information. There are still a lot of crazy laws still on the book in the USA. For example, in some states it is illegal to dance in public.

[@donnaroberts281]

Hence the movie “Footloose” 😂

[@johaquila]

There is probably material for a Part III of this series. While Germany's Good Samaritan Law was included already in the German Empire's penal code (copied from the French one), it was the Nazis that gave the law more teeth by upgrading failure to help a person in an emergency from a misdemeanor to a crime punishable by up to a year in prison, as it still is today. (However, this change had little practical effect. See item 3 below.) Americans often seem to be confused about this kind of law, so some things seem worth pointing out here: 1. You only need to help within reason. Finishing your ice cream isn't more important than calling an ambulance for a person who is bleeding to death, but if you can't swim you certainly needn't jump into a river when someone is drowning. 2. The fact that you are obliged to help also gives you (limited) protection if you hurt someone or damage something while trying to help. Getting someone's heart to beat again after cardiac arrest requires very rough action that typically breaks a few ribs. You can't be sued for that. 3. The extent of the threatened punishment is in no relation to how effective such a law is. The mere fact that a Good Samaritan law exists shapes a society so that it basically never gets applied. It ensures that most people follow their natural instincts and help, and that psychopaths who don't help hide the fact rather than influencing others by publicly insisting that watching calmly while someone dies is their right.

[@jeromemaxwell143]

As usual another stellar video! Keep them coming😊

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Law 2 resonates disturbingly with PETA's words v. their actions.

[@billygoatB]

The Nazis were going back to their pagan roots.

[@TheCobraCom]

Not a coincidence ... comparisons of animal breeding facilities to concentration camps are not infrequent from that corner.

[@jensschroder8214]

The training of "Heilpraktiker" only says what they are not allowed to do. Or what only doctors are allowed to do. Otherwise it is allowed to sell sugar balls at overpriced prices. Or tap water in small bottles to claim healing effects.

[@thomasp.5057]

Von mir auch ein dickes Lob für deine offensichtlich große Rechercearbeit, die Du nicht nur zu diesem Thema leistest!

[@raymondfrye5017]

@@thomasp.5057 What?...is her Research Project offensive to you?...or am I misinterpreting your opinion?

[@MichaelBrehmer]

Mind blown 🤯. Thanks, SuperFeli!

[@j.c.ca.o.l7035]

Great episode Feli!!! I just want to say a Happy Holiday to you, Ben, and both of your families.

[@elrond8490]

The ban on helping someone fill out a tax return was also passed by the Nazis in 1933. First, a professional ban was issued for Jewish tax advisors and so that they would not give someone free advice, everyone except tax advisors was forbidden from helping someone else with their tax returns. The exceptions are your own children and your wife or husband. The law is still applied and fines are waived.

[@gregblair5139]

Does that mean they can't sell a German version of Turbo Tax? Does that mean that businesses like H&R Block can't operate in Germany? What about Americans who live in Germany and are liable for American Taxes? Since they can deduct their German taxes, they have a very complicated American tax situation, and need thorough documentation for their German taxes. They surely need an advisor for their German taxes and their American taxes.

[@juavi6987]

@@gregblair5139 Today it rather protects the means of the tax-consultants -that today of course can be Jewish again, too. At that time they prohibited Jews from performing several (nearly all?) professions. And so this ban should cut off the possibility to do it inofficially, instead. (Although I didn't know about that origin in that specific case, too, -as generally many professions are only allowed to be performed with a diploma/degree in it.)

[@elrond8490]

@@gregblair5139 So in the business area and what it looks like with employees who have to pay taxes in two countries, I don't know. In any case, if you help someone with their tax return several times, that can be considered businesslike.

[@MarcGaudette-q7g]

Very interesting and very well presented. I was stationed in Landstuhl near Kaiserslautern with the United States Army from 1978 to 1981 and didn't know much about the Nazis or German history at the time, but I've learned a lot about it since. Danke sehr.

[@anncouper-johnston6112]

I was in the process of becoming Catholic when I lived in Germany, so I left the space on my application for a residence permit blank. However, this just wouldn't do! The expression on the official's face when I described myself as "voruber envangelisch" (temporarily Protestant) was priceless(

[@stephenfisher3721]

That is very interesting that Protestant in German is evangelisch. In English, Evangelical refers to a type of Protestant religion but not all

[@trevorward85043]

Happy Holidays!

[@dpsonnenberg4537]

Thank you for the video. I can't wait for the next show.

[@aidanbarrett9313]

There is tremendous dark humour in the fact that an ideology that saw whole groups of people as "sub-human" and "not worthy of life" had a real soft spot for actual non-human creature. An entire mass movement of the character "Ken" from "A Fish Called Wanda".

[@nunyabiznez6381]

Regarding the animal abuse law, Hitler was an animal lover and owned more than one dog. So this should not be a shock that he supported anti cruelty legislation when it came to animals.

[@Nippeltitsch]

Auch ein schönes Beispiel: 1934 entstand eine Vorschrift, wie Klassenräume in Schulen einzurichten sind. Die Fenster müssen auf der linken Seite sein. (damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben) Die Fenster müssen so groß sein, daß man von jedem Platz aus ein Stück Himmel sehen kann. (ausreichend Tageslicht im Klassenzimmer) Nach diesen Vorgaben arbeitet man immer noch.

[@tobyk.4911]

"damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben" ... und dann haben wir überwiegend in "Hufeisen-Sitzordnung" gesessen, oder in der Grundschule auch manchmal an "Gruppentischen", d. h. die meisten Schüler sitzen nicht mehr frontal zur Tafel und mit der linken Seite zum Fenster 😂

[@bouli3576]

The signals code for tramways / streetcars was unified around 1937 and they are still today applicable troughout Germany (StVO).

[@SomeGuyFromUtah]

Not every church in Germany has church tax. It's basically government enforced tithing and is somewhat needed to maintain the big old churches there. You can choose to "unregister" with your church, but it basically means you'll get excommunicated from the church if you do. My Ex was really hesitant to unregister from the Catholic church because she didn't want them to read her name out in the congregation A lot of people stay in their church even if they don't go because as they get older they might want to get married within the church later in life. A lot of Germans I met didn't really get religious until they were retired. Also, maybe a little interesting to some people - the Mormon church is officially not considered a Christian church in Germany and while they do collect tithing from their members, they do not do it through this government church tax.

[@tobyk.4911]

yes, as you said: Not every church in Germany collects church tax. In fact, they are the (Roman) Catholic church, the Protestant church and a few independent, smaller churches that have made such an agreement with the state and use the government's financial administration for the collection of church tax, as a kind of membership fee from their members. However, most of the smaller churches that are independent from the "big two church organizations", don't use that system, but raise their finances by voluntary donations, tithes, offerings (for example, in the case of Baptist churches, Mennonites churches, Pentecostal churches, 7th day Adventist churches ... and surely also the LDS / Mormon church organization that you mentioned). So, the church tax is a method that the two big church organizations in Germany (and some small churches and religious organizations) use ... in my opinion primarily 1. in order to reduce administrative efforts by outsourcing the main part of fundraising to a state institution, and 2. have a more reliable, regular and plannable source of money, than voluntary donations would be.

[@johannweisspfennig1310]

Church tax is no Nazi law. It was imposed to the people After the Napoleon area, when church property was expropriated

[@tobyk.4911]

that is something different ... "church tax" is a fee that church members pay to their respective church (and which is proportional to their income tax) - while the "compensation" for the expropriation of property about 200 years ago are payments that the church organisations receive directly from the government, I.e. from the taxes that the federal government receives ... therefore this is paid by money from every tax payer in Germany, not only from church members.

[@johannweisspfennig1310]

@@tobyk.4911But the entire system you are describing was inaugurated by the prussians and not by the nazis who were Anti christians. Church after 1815 was no longer authorised then to impose taxes itself. The Payments were handed down to the church as compensation for their lost Land income

[@tobyk.4911]

@@johannweisspfennig1310 yes, the payments to compensate the churches for the lost land began much earlier - as I already said, they are not the Church tax, but different payments. In this video, she speaks about the "church tax," which is something completely different than the compensation payments from the government that you talk about (and that she hasn't even mentioned in the video)

[@AnonymousG3R]

You can leave the church, and that removes the church tax from your tax card. But don’t think for a second that the German state doesn’t find ways to reclaim that money. Most of the taxes the church receives don’t actually come from the church tax but from the regular income taxes paid by every citizen. In my opinion, this law should be cancel immediately.

[@hiddentruth1982]

Bad people can make good laws, they just tend not to follow their own laws.

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Great Video Feli I never knew that these still existed. Merry Christmas to you

[@johnvonsauers8867]

thank you Feli,❤❤❤ for that information, it's always great to hear from you

[@timsnow3277]

Your voice is amazing. Frohe Weihnachten, Feli! Ich Liebe Diche. Vom Australie

[@TheFirstManticore]

I would think that most laws under Nazism and even before Nazism would be just normal laws, like forbidding theft, fraud, and assault.

[@arturobianco848]

Yup you need normale laws to regulate things so if something "new" comes along during the time of the nazi's they are probable good laws. (except for the add ons for certaine groups the Nazi's didn't like)

[@johnfriel-uj2zs]

Attitude Of Gratitude For 👌 Outstanding Video 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 Thanks Feli😊😊

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Very interesting. I just heard ( in English thank God ) on the DW channel the lady that is the head of the AFD day that a person that makes 50k Euros is taxed so much they pay half in taxes. How horrible. She also talked about how her friends from overseas that came back to Germany were shocked at how the trains are not on time and how the government was supposed to privatise the trains, but the state bought all the stocks for the train, which in reality means the trains are still owned by the government. She of course also talked about how bad immigration has been as we just recently saw with the murders and horrible injuries by the Saudi immigrant in Magedaburg. How sad. God speed Feli. Great channel and you explain German stuff well. Regards just about 70 miles west of Cinci. Tim.

[@ge.h.1902]

In 1919, the church tax was enshrined in the Weimar Constitution. Article 137, paragraph 6 states: "Religious societies, which are corporations under public law, are entitled to levy taxes on the basis of the civil tax lists in accordance with the provisions of state law." This was before the Nazi government

[@boink800]

The de wikipedia page gives some excellent information about this. I don't know why she's claiming it came from the National Socialist government.

[@wcg19891]

I didn’t find out until recently that NAZI was never the abbreviation for that party but a nickname given to it by opponents. The actual abbreviation was NSDAP which was the initials for the National Socialist German Workers Party when spelled out in German.

[@k.r.baylor8825]

British PM Churchill loved mispronouncing it to tweak AH and the NSDAP.

[@jamesr1703]

Feli, this was really informative, especially since i lived in Germany as an American and experienced the church tax. The practitioner that you mentioned in NRW, I thought performed euthanasia on these cancer patients, so the overdose was on purpose.

[@treyweaver5396]

Good vid! Me, US MD for 30 years and a student of history. Some of these I actually remember reading about especially the Church Tax. Hitler was a very unusual human. From a Religious perspective, I think he was a Pagan, imo.

[@WOOF95]

Your research is college level and I could imagine you doing online teaching with Khan Academy or Coursera. Happy Holidays and New Year to you, Ben, and your families!!

[@Thomas-oc2ln]

AH's love of animals is still felt to this day across the West. Germany was one of the very first countries to implement animal welfare laws through the 30s and 40s, outlawing animal cruelty. This is now the standard for most of Europe and America. Germany has contributed more than most nations to our civilization, equaling even Greece and Rome. Even the parts of our history which are verboten for us to embrace is staying with us in so many positive ways. ❤️ 🇩🇪

[@SamCaracha]

Thank for adding law #3! I remember mentioning that in the comments of the last video! Nice to see it getting noticed, although it is a highly discussed topic, ngl! 🙂 But as a medical doctor, I think you know my stance on this topic. Back in 1939 it was also established, because many doctors were of Jewish origin and that did not work with the Nazi regime. So to be able to provide basic care quickly, they came up with that law.

[@klausjeager1493]

Frohe Weihnachten. Ich mag deine Videos wirklich sehr. Ich wünschte, ich hätte einen persönlichen Tutor wie dich, der mir beim Deutschlernen hilft. Du bist sehr inspirierend, Feli

[@tobiaswesche1326]

Thanks Feli! Hard stuff, but very good recherche.

[@Peter-m5n7m]

PIA sounds like an excellent service. Thanks!

[@SwordOfHeimdall]

Can you do one about the German Empire? I can also imagine even older laws being still relevant.

[@keithramsay3628]

As an American I was surprised when a Canadian friend said she thought a church tax was a good idea (for Canada).

[@k.r.baylor8825]

The German church tax allows the two main Christian religions to maintain their church properties. So many churches in the US just don't have the funds to maintain the structures, especially the older churches. It costs a lot to repair an 500-year old structure, especially if the attendance numbers and parishioner contributions have been declining. So this money is welcome by the churches. It's also a massive disincentive to be religious, too. Personally, that's an issue, but I'm American so it doesn't count.

[@hobertlee7598]

MERRY CHRISTMAS FELI

[@newfoundland3238]

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[@MilaAikens]

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[@hctim96]

I see this bot on many auto vids...uff

[@markfellhauer352]

The U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 also adopted language directly taken from 1930s German gun laws.

[@k.r.baylor8825]

The "sporting use" clause is from the 1938 German Weapons Law. It's appalling anything related to the Holocaust is in American law, but Sen. Dodd, the author of GCA68, served in Germany after the war for the Nuremberg trials and acquired a copy of the 1938 law. He had it translated by the Library of Congress for his use since he saw the German method of firearms regulation meeting his goals of unconstitutionally restricting the Second Amendment. Lots on the web about this unknown aspect of American firearms law, much of it from JPFO's research into this in the 1990s.

[@MarionJInce]

Being from the USA, I’m glad this tax supports and maintains churches in Germany because that’s where excellent artwork, carvings, sculptures, and fantastic architecture is available for the public to view. Churches should be visited when in Germany.

[@nirfz]

Well explained! Small addition to the austrian church tax: it is calculated different to germany. Here it is 1.1% of your income before taxes, but you have to pay it from your income after taxes. So the actual % of what you really pay increases way more with increasing income than the small value would suggest. (beacuse of higher taxes on higher income)

[@rogerd777]

I would think that the church tax would lead to declining church attendance. In the US, your contribution is voluntary, but sometimes highly encouraged by the church.

[@VernCrisler]

America removed church taxes in the 1830s. People mistakenly believe the U.S. Constitution outlawed state churches, but historically the Constitution only outlawed FEDERAL interference or favoring of churches. Some of the states still had established churches long after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, including its Bill of Rights. Massachusetts was the last state to do away with its state church. Interestingly, the Inquisition in Europe came to an end about this time. BTW, the reason Nazis supported animal welfare and environmentalism is that they were a version of Progressives. All Nazis were Progressives (national SOCIALISTS), but of course not all Progressives were Nazis.

[@senbassador]

I wonder if the 14th amendment would have outlawed state religions.

[@VernCrisler]

@@senbassador No, originally it only applied a small part of the Bill of Rights -- the Blackstone rights -- to the states. The U.S. Supreme Court during the 1940s, however, reinterpreted the 14th Amendment so as to apply ALL the Bill of Rights to the states. The end result was to give itself way more power than it ever had before under the Constitution..

[@nickcastaneda203]

I actually learned about some of these laws from this history of WW2 book series that I got from my grandpa. He also left behind a book series that dives deeper into the Nazi regime that I'll have to check out.

[@grandrapids57]

From WWII in the US we still have a tax on light bulbs. Light bulbs were seen then as a luxury and what was supposed to have been a temporary tax for that war, still is real.

[@laurentschmidt2758]

Fun fact about the church tax - the Finanzamt (Revenue Service) treats it like a donation, but only if you file a formal tax return. In that case they deduct the 500-600 € paid in the example from your earnings and reevaluate all your taxes on the basis of the lower earnings, in the example 44500 € then instead of 45000 €. That gives you back approx. 200 € in income tax and 16 - 18 € in church tax. If you repeat the process in the following year, you are then obliged to deduct the 16 - 18 € that you got back from the church tax the year before from that year's church tax that you claim "donation privilege" for. Sounds complicated? Welcome to Germany. Sounds hopelessly outdated - after all nobody knows better what taxes you pay that the Finanzamt? Yep, it is.

[@k.r.baylor8825]

That makes sense as to why the tax isn't a huge disincentive to deregister from a church, and why the attendance numbers remain high. It's like how a US standard deduction is handled on a US income tax form.

[@ernstwiltmann6]

Mind you that Reinhard Gehlen (Fremde Heere Ost) was in charge of the BND: Following the end of World War II, Gehlen surrendered to the United States Army. While in a POW camp, Gehlen offered FHO's microfilmed and secretly buried archives about the USSR and his own services to the U.S. intelligence community. Following the start of the Cold War, the U.S. military (G-2 Intelligence) accepted Gehlen's offer and assigned him to establish the Gehlen Organization, an espionage service focusing on the Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc. Beginning with his time as head of the Gehlen Organization, Gehlen favored both Atlanticism and close cooperation between what would become West Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the other members of the NATO military alliance. The organization employed hundreds of former members of the Nazi Party and former Wehrmacht military intelligence officer.

[@khipksy1888]

From what I have seen, theres a trend of Medical doctors here who take heilpraxis certificate as a suplementary training, so they have both the medical knowledge + experience and alternative treatment info, allowing them to give combo treatment to patient. Which can be really usefull, as once I went to one for stomach bug, in addition to normal medicine, the doctor also suggested me to take flowsamen(psyllium in english/ asphagol in south asian languages). Its a natural highly rich fibre source food.

[@rizluz396]

Both kosher-slaughter and halal-slaughting should be illegal anyways. Pure barbaric.

[@heathrunyon4036]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@ariedekoning8867]

To become a heilpraktiker cost you a study of 4 years. I did myself one year. It is over 50% normal medical study. And there is a lot of other studies in it. Homeopathic, Schulzer salts, magnetic, schropfen, acupressure, acupuncture, orthomoleculair, vitamines and minerals and many things more. It isn't a easy study. I did my medical basic exam and this quite more easy. And fir me it is a good idea to be a Heilpraktiker. Have you all a great great and wonderful day. Happy Christmas and let's make a better world. Arie the Dutchman.

[@markfeldhaus1]

The nazis wore shoes am I therefore required to give up shoes? Each law must be judged on its own merit not its origin.

[@miker648]

Feli,. My father talked about when he was an apprentice under Hitler the DIN system (Deutsches Institut für Normun) was instituted.

[@alicemilne1444]

That's not correct, I'm afraid. DIN goes back to 1917. From the DIN Website: 1917 Gründung von DIN als Normenausschuss der deutschen Industrie (NADI) am 22. Dezember 1917. 1926 Der Name von DIN wird von Normenausschuss der deutschen Industrie (NADI) in Deutscher Normenausschuss (DNA) geändert. DIN zieht in die Dorotheenstraße 47. The name was only changed again in 1975: 1975 DIN und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland unterzeichnen einen Vertrag zur Regelung der zweiseitigen Beziehungen. Der bisherige Name Deutscher Normenausschuss (DNA) wird in DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. geändert.

[@miker648]

@@alicemilne1444 The way my father explained it to me that 2 measuring systems were being used, Zoll and metric. And it was the decision was made that all measurements were to be done in metric. So, in the factory where he worked, they replaced all of the old machinery with new machinery so that the factory would be in compliance. So, I must have not understood it correctly.

[@alicemilne1444]

@@miker648 I wonder how many machines had to be replaced. The metric system was introduced throughout Germany in 1872, so there can't have been many old machines left by the 1930s. However, even in the 1980s when I was working in a German hydraulics company, piping was still being made with Whitworth pipe threads (Rohrgewinde) in inches (Zoll), and I see they are still used in plumbing today.

[@miker648]

@@alicemilne1444 Interesting because in that factory ( Gramss & Thomas Maschinenfabrik) my father was learning to be a Eisengießer, they also had a machine shop. They probably reused that old machine iron in their own factory

[@alicemilne1444]

@@miker648 You just sent me on a nostalgia trip. I've been googling Gramss and Thomas machines and came up with pics of some beautiful vintage bench-top screw presses (Spindelpressen) with flywheels. Incidentally, my old company actually grew out of a very old foundry called Rexroth. It cast the housings for its own valves, pumps and motors. A certain amount of scrap iron was always used in the blast furnace.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Got this notification while I was watching the Rammstien video for Deutschland.. weird lol

[@ScarryMarian2012]

Du Hast rumbles in the earbuds in the background when the notification rang my phone 🤣

[@EHonda-ds6ve]

Documentation about Ramstein Airbase?

[@alicemilne1444]

@@EHonda-ds6ve No. Music video called "Deutschland" by the heavy metal group Rammstein (which is written with 2 "M"s, not one).

[@BillR-e2g]

All I want for Christmas is to one day experience the desire, the anticipation, for anything as the dwarf in the Sonne music video standing next in line to be spanked by Snow White.

[@maureenboyle1926]

Excellent video

[@dagmarszemeitzke]

There are „Freikirchen“ (freechurches) for example Baptists or Pentecostal Churches. They don‘t pay churchtaxes, they pay to their church direct. They called „freethinking“. My father was Baptist and my mother was Protestant. My father was born near Königsberg/Kaliningrad and had to leave his Home as he was about 13 years and meet my mother in Baden-Württemberg where, at this time, no Baptist municipality exist, and so they married not only in the registry office but also in the Protestant church. I was baptisized in the Protestant church as a Baby. My father was baptized at the age of 12.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*For Decades, I have Known that Every "Christian" is a ChiLd MO Lester!!!!* *But CoWard DemoCraps, are too CoWardLy to Speak Out!!!*

[@Nikioko]

The Nazis treated animals better than humans. In fact, Hitler was a vegetarian and animal lover.

[@pfennigfuchser-97]

Say that to the 40 K horses they killed in Crimea

[@Nikioko]

@@pfennigfuchser-97 That was in the war, and horses were a strategic resource. And by the way: They killed even more humans.

[@philausa9629]

Very informative

[@Adiscretefirm]

So do the churches still pass the collection plate during services and preach tithing?

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

I haven't been in Germany since it was 2 countries, but I doubt they would stop collecting all the money they can grab.

[@theodorjosefeisenring675]

Yes, of course

[@californiahiker9616]

The collection plate usually is for a specific purpose, not necessarily having to do with the church itself.

[@danielcarroll3358]

A friend of mine is a diakon/deacon in Bavaria. He regrets the church tax. He believes it is much better if people donate directly and think about what they are doing and why. I know that when I donate my usual amount on Sunday when visiting Cologne at a local parish church, mine is probably the largest donation, and that is not saying much.

[@Habakuk_]

@@danielcarroll3358 Nobody is forcing you to pay church tax, just go to a notary and get an exemption.

[@martinstock]

Prussia introduced the "church tax" in 1905/1906. It was and still is an issue of the German states. I.e. how much and if your denomination is entitled to this service*) depends where you live. Only in Austria it was indirectly introduced by the Nazis due to the Anschluss. And kept afterwards . *) Official recognized religious denominations can use the - state level - service that their membership fees are collected by the state tax offices for a small fee. How this tax is called differs. Catholics and Protestants call it Kirchensteuer (church tax), Jewish communities call it Kultussteuer (cult tax). As it is a defined percentage of the income tax someone pays, this means - people with low income pay nothing - for the rest it is degressiv (analogue to the income tax starting with 14% to max. 45%), the more you earn the more you pay

[@tsz5868]

It´s an abhorrent practice to fund an state religion.

[@martinstock]

@@tsz5868 No state religion in Prussia. It was first introduced not even for the main religion in Prussia. This one followed only one year later. As written before it is a service every official recognized religion can opt for.

[@tobyk.4911]

degressive? are you sure? the German word for this principle is "progressiv", therefore I would expect that the English word is "progressive".

[@martinstock]

@@tobyk.4911 You were right. I was holding my smartphone upside down ;-)

[@gerdaschulze2333]

😂​@@martinstock

[@scottinphoenix739]

Going to a healing practitioner, with no medical training sounds scary to me. And paying taxes to the government that then forwards that money to a church is a bit strange to me, but then again 90 percent of government spending is strange to me.

[@funlovingdan]

You work so hard giving us all this information. I hope you are getting paid well.

[@miykaelyisrael4423]

i never understood the church tax while i was stationed at ramstein.. but i did remember that germans could no understand why the american churches were asking for tithes and offerings when they were already paying a church tax... it as a situation that was smoothed over by church leadership but was never really explained to the american church members who did not have german ties... all in all.. we enjoyed singing praise in german and the germans enjoyed singing praise in english.

[@hadbl12]

Thanks for the explanation and education

[@hansweichselbaum2534]

My mother still paid Church Tax for me, ten years after I left Austria. I found that out quite by accident many years later. Probably worried about my afterlife.

[@TheCobraCom]

The Nazis were in fact not bad at writing laws. The problems they caused lay in their intentions and actions, not in technical details. The regime was not only "evil-evil-evil" as sub-complex people understand it today or are even taught, but also very technocratic. Technocrats tend to choose their words precisely and make their meaning very clear. As hard as it may sound: I wished that that skill would still be as strong today as it was earlier. There are lots of "banana"-laws passed today, that are formulated indifferently, leaving the judicial system to make something out of it. Or as a German proverb says: Meant well is the opposite of done well.

[@Alfred-v6p2q]

“In 1931, the Nazi Party (then a minority in the Reichstag) proposed a ban on vivisection, but the ban failed to attract support from other political parties. By 1933, after Hitler had ascended to the Chancellery and the Nazis had consolidated control of the Reichstag, the Nazis immediately held a meeting to enact the ban on vivisection. On April 21, 1933, almost immediately after the Nazis came to power, the parliament began to pass laws for the regulation of animal slaughter.[11] On April 21, a law was passed concerning the slaughter of animals; no animals were to be slaughtered without anesthetic.”

[@u.e.u.e.]

- Straßenverkehrsgesetz 1935 - Zugabeverordnung - Rabattgesetz

[@EddieReischl]

A lot of times with people who exhibit pathological behaviors, there has to be a balancing for the carnage that the person inflicts on other people. That aspect is, I think, informative also, as to why a certain Corporal would be abstaining from alcohol, trying to practice vegetarianism, discouraging smoking, proclaiming himself to be a friend to animals, etc., aside from his generally being a complete demagogue.

[@ninglight4433]

As they took over Hitlers country of origin - Austria - real divorce became legal for a catholic couples in Austria for the first time since centuries. In 1938 9 of 10 Austrians were catholic this was a big deal and led to a "divorce-hype" in the first 2 years. Especially people, who were already separated according to catholic law (separeted from table and bed) made it legal and married their partner.

[@thehoneybadger8089]

Mormons in Germany pay that tax, but it never goes to the LDS church. It goes to the major church of the specific German state, like Hesse, Bayern, etc.

[@tobyk.4911]

Are you really sure about that? As a German, I find this statement unbelievable. However I don't have any specific information about the situation of the LDS / Mormon church. The Catholic church should receive the church tax from their members, the Protestant church receives the church tax from their own members, the same for other churches and organizations that collect church tax - and if someone is not a registered member of a church-tax-collecting church , then they don't pay church tax. I would not expect the Mormons to be treated differently than members of other churches that don't use the church tax system - that is, of course, as long as they are only members of the Mormon church and not also members of another church like the Protestant or the Catholic church. therefore, if members of the Mormon church in Germany pay church tax to the Catholic church, then the explanation is surely that they are also registered members of the Catholic church.

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you Feli

[@robertjennings7282]

Some churches in Germany are over a thousand years old, and are cultural, historic, artistic, and musical treasures. So many were badly damaged in WWII. I am glad the German government and people are caring for them.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*For Decades, I have Known that Every "Christian" is a ChiLd MO Lester!!!!* *But CoWard DemoCraps, are too CoWardLy to Speak Out!!!*

[@davidaynes5023]

It's bad manners to wear a hat in doors anywhere. Especially while eating, church or court.

[@grewdpastor]

Unless you are in a synagoge.

[@uweinhamburg]

I remember, when visiting the St. Peters church in Rome i was wearing a cap and one of these Swiss guard men, of course wearing a helmet, told me (rather impolite btw.) to take off my cap. At this moment a group of catholic priests walked by, of course all wearing their normal headgear..

[@MatthewDouglas-n5w]

​@grewdpastor that's not a hat.

[@Intergalactic_media]

This was a super interesting video.