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   SherBeareth (sherbeareth@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 00:52:04 JST SherBeareth

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   Per #Politico

   Grooming?? The Idiot Hegseth is summoning starred generals and other officers to Virginia next week for prep school rush week?

   Just when you think life can’t get more ridiculous, Hegseth opens his trap.
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   Hegseth’s mysterious meeting with #generals will focus on grooming and warrior ethos.
   It will draw top brass from around the world, will function as a pep rally of sorts. Pete #Hegseth has ordered hundreds of generals to #Virginia next week to discuss #grooming standards…

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     SherBeareth (sherbeareth@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 00:52:03 JST SherBeareth

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     2) Almost every general and admiral in the U.S. military, including many from global commands, will need to show up Tuesday at a military base in Quantico, Virginia. The unprecedented event will be one of the only times such an assembly of senior military leaders has been in the same space.

     Hegseth has taken a hands-on approach to personnel issues, making grooming standards and physical fitness a core part of his tenure, based on what he calls the new “warrior ethos”.

     https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/hegseth-meeting-details-00582791

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 02:44:27 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #HistoryRhymes:

     *Lessons from the #WeimarRepublic--#TheGreatPurge*:

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     👉I know that at this point in time, this might sound cracy, but having an emergency surgery or landing for these senior officers before reaching VA on Tuesday might be a good idea.👈

     Why? B/C of what happened in #1933 in #Germany. Quickly after his power grab, #Hitler aligned all social strata, including, OFC, the #Military:..

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     ...#Military (#DeutscheWehrmacht):

     According to a quick research in scientific texts 👉b/w 1,000 and 1,500 officers were purged within the first year👈:

     *In general terms:*

     a) „...the army leadership was being marginalised…“ (#IanKershaw, #Hitler: 1889–1936: Hubris, London: Allen Lane, 1998, p. 350).

     b) „…a wholesale purge of opponents in the officer corps…“ (Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889–1936: Hubris, London: Allen Lane, 1998, p. 352).

     c) „…#Hitler's influence over appointments in @SherBeareth

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Sep-2025 06:02:34 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     ...except that General Hodges would have missed out on the #GreatPurge of 1933--two years earlier. 😉

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     UPDATE 09/29/2025

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     #USPol #History #US #Military
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     #HistoryRhymes

     -> Comforting to read that at least some US generals know history, too:

     "July1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions."

     And #PeteHegseth tries to deflect:

     "Cool story, General"