Dr C Weissenberg
@drcweissenberg.bsky.social
Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
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Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
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For those who don't know me: I work independently at an intersection of Holocaust history, migration history, & German Jewish genealogy, utilising micro archives, macro archives, collaborative project work, digital methods, & digital outputs.
For those who don't know me: I work independently at an intersection of Holocaust history, migration history, & German Jewish genealogy, utilising micro archives, macro archives, collaborative project work, digital methods, & digital outputs.
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Tech billionaires fuel Trump’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections ft.trib.al/1xK8giP
Tech billionaires fuel Trump’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections
Executives seeking regulatory relief help make lame-duck president a potent political force with record fundraising
ft.trib.al
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Tech billionaires fuel Trump’s $429mn haul ahead of midterm elections ft.trib.al/1xK8giP
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**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray complied with a Justice Department request for the driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of registered Wyoming voters.
That's drawn criticism from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Wyoming.
That's drawn criticism from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Wyoming.
Gray defends decision to share sensitive Wyoming voter data with feds as voter group, Dems criticize move - WyoFile
The Secretary of State’s office gave the Justice Department the driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of every registered Wyoming voter in August.
wyofile.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
**Thrilled** to learn that the most corrupt administration in U.S. history now has all of my information. What could go wrong?!
The data collection via Palantir makes the Nazi ‘Black Book’ for the invasion of Britain - a list of political enemies and Jews to be rounded up, basically - look positively tame.
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The data collection via Palantir makes the Nazi ‘Black Book’ for the invasion of Britain - a list of political enemies and Jews to be rounded up, basically - look positively tame.
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Palantir boosts revenue expectations on strong AI demand ft.trib.al/wo56CEu
Palantir boosts revenue expectations on strong AI demand
Shares rally as data intelligence group predicts 61% growth in sales
ft.trib.al
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Palantir boosts revenue expectations on strong AI demand ft.trib.al/wo56CEu
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NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
www.thenerve.news
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
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Consider applying to be the new editor of the German Studies Review. Applications due by this Friday, February 6: www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsr...
CfA: GSR Editor | German Studies Association
www.thegsa.org
February 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Consider applying to be the new editor of the German Studies Review. Applications due by this Friday, February 6: www.thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsr...
Main Street, USA
Holiday numbers at Disney are, rightly, down.
Holiday numbers at Disney are, rightly, down.
February 2, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Main Street, USA
Holiday numbers at Disney are, rightly, down.
Holiday numbers at Disney are, rightly, down.
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In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Thrilled to see our beautiful book, Holocaust Letters, out soon from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! With huge thanks to my amazing co-editors @sandralipner.bsky.social @charlieknight.bsky.social & Clara Dijkstra. Launching soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-l...
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Thrilled to see our beautiful book, Holocaust Letters, out soon from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! With huge thanks to my amazing co-editors @sandralipner.bsky.social @charlieknight.bsky.social & Clara Dijkstra. Launching soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-l...
We’re all in danger of this.
Do. Not. Accept. The. Premise.
Do. Not. Accept. The. Premise.
And perceived ‘dangerous people’ should still have a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
We’re all in danger of this.
Do. Not. Accept. The. Premise.
Do. Not. Accept. The. Premise.
And perceived ‘dangerous people’ should still have a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."
February 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
And perceived ‘dangerous people’ should still have a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Let us not lose sight of this.
There is no legal means by which a democracy can instruct the state to snatch *any* people off streets and have them imprisoned and / or deported without recourse to legal services, and a trial.
Lord of the Flies
There is no rescue at the end; no civility to return to.
The officer returns the boys to a world that has killed children & used the atom bomb.
The “Coral Island” ref acknowledges that history repeats horrors thru centuries & down generations.
Yet so many read this as a rescue.
There is no rescue at the end; no civility to return to.
The officer returns the boys to a world that has killed children & used the atom bomb.
The “Coral Island” ref acknowledges that history repeats horrors thru centuries & down generations.
Yet so many read this as a rescue.
February 1, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Lord of the Flies
There is no rescue at the end; no civility to return to.
The officer returns the boys to a world that has killed children & used the atom bomb.
The “Coral Island” ref acknowledges that history repeats horrors thru centuries & down generations.
Yet so many read this as a rescue.
There is no rescue at the end; no civility to return to.
The officer returns the boys to a world that has killed children & used the atom bomb.
The “Coral Island” ref acknowledges that history repeats horrors thru centuries & down generations.
Yet so many read this as a rescue.
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In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
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For anyone at home in a warm safe house, please consider that until the Nazi government decided they weren’t, Jews had been ordinary citizens of Germany.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
For anyone at home in a warm safe house, please consider that until the Nazi government decided they weren’t, Jews had been ordinary citizens of Germany.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
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My dad was released from Dachau on condition he left Germany within 2 weeks.
Had he not left, he would have been subject to rearrest. And as 100s of ‘November Jews’ had been killed in the camps, rearrest was a death sentence.
That’s not a million miles away from what’s going on in America today.
Had he not left, he would have been subject to rearrest. And as 100s of ‘November Jews’ had been killed in the camps, rearrest was a death sentence.
That’s not a million miles away from what’s going on in America today.
February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
My dad was released from Dachau on condition he left Germany within 2 weeks.
Had he not left, he would have been subject to rearrest. And as 100s of ‘November Jews’ had been killed in the camps, rearrest was a death sentence.
That’s not a million miles away from what’s going on in America today.
Had he not left, he would have been subject to rearrest. And as 100s of ‘November Jews’ had been killed in the camps, rearrest was a death sentence.
That’s not a million miles away from what’s going on in America today.
For anyone at home in a warm safe house, please consider that until the Nazi government decided they weren’t, Jews had been ordinary citizens of Germany.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
For anyone at home in a warm safe house, please consider that until the Nazi government decided they weren’t, Jews had been ordinary citizens of Germany.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
They were, simply, German.
Until it was declared that they weren’t.
In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
February 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
In early Feb 1939 my father was released from Dachau.
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
I don’t make comparisons about this lightly, as you might imagine.
What we’re hearing about conditions in US camps, & these terrifying mass roundups, makes it increasingly impossible not to make comparison.
If you’re on the ground & can help 🙏
February was the month that Kitchener Camp first opened its gates to rescue 4,000 German Jews to Britain in 1939.
Occasionally, dad was in Kitchener, mum on a domestic service visa, and child on the Kindertransport - though this was rare.
👇🏻 check out the alt text for a bit more info on the slide
Occasionally, dad was in Kitchener, mum on a domestic service visa, and child on the Kindertransport - though this was rare.
👇🏻 check out the alt text for a bit more info on the slide
February 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
February was the month that Kitchener Camp first opened its gates to rescue 4,000 German Jews to Britain in 1939.
Occasionally, dad was in Kitchener, mum on a domestic service visa, and child on the Kindertransport - though this was rare.
👇🏻 check out the alt text for a bit more info on the slide
Occasionally, dad was in Kitchener, mum on a domestic service visa, and child on the Kindertransport - though this was rare.
👇🏻 check out the alt text for a bit more info on the slide
The good thing about finishing with tax return info for 2024/25?
Realising you can shred tax return info for 2018-19 🥳
Realising you can shred tax return info for 2018-19 🥳
February 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The good thing about finishing with tax return info for 2024/25?
Realising you can shred tax return info for 2018-19 🥳
Realising you can shred tax return info for 2018-19 🥳
Anyone know of collaborative data projects at state, regional, or national levels - for how many are being imprisoned?
We’re getting a handful of known faces and mass responses, with no idea what the scope is overall, as far as I can tell.
It’s a great system from US govt POV…
We’re getting a handful of known faces and mass responses, with no idea what the scope is overall, as far as I can tell.
It’s a great system from US govt POV…
In amongst the daily whiplash of US events -
Anyone have a source for numbers detained / imprisoned so far - and numbers of people sent to another country?
Anyone have a source for numbers detained / imprisoned so far - and numbers of people sent to another country?
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Anyone know of collaborative data projects at state, regional, or national levels - for how many are being imprisoned?
We’re getting a handful of known faces and mass responses, with no idea what the scope is overall, as far as I can tell.
It’s a great system from US govt POV…
We’re getting a handful of known faces and mass responses, with no idea what the scope is overall, as far as I can tell.
It’s a great system from US govt POV…
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Followup: this thread is getting re-posed in German, Swedish, Norwegian and French because apparently governments across Europe are contemplating contracts with Palantir.
Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.
Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.
February 1, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Followup: this thread is getting re-posed in German, Swedish, Norwegian and French because apparently governments across Europe are contemplating contracts with Palantir.
Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.
Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.
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My fellow civil servants would object that the order "find the 'nexus' of Democratic voters under tax audit" is illegal. But software need not raise these objections.
Hence broligarchs dream of software allowing them to order up repression without pesky civil servants in the loop.
Hence broligarchs dream of software allowing them to order up repression without pesky civil servants in the loop.
January 31, 2026 at 3:48 AM
My fellow civil servants would object that the order "find the 'nexus' of Democratic voters under tax audit" is illegal. But software need not raise these objections.
Hence broligarchs dream of software allowing them to order up repression without pesky civil servants in the loop.
Hence broligarchs dream of software allowing them to order up repression without pesky civil servants in the loop.
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To target a "criminal or immigration nexus" the software pulls Americans' personal data from across the government, including data from Health and Human Services and other agencies unrelated to law enforcement.
How did ICE and Palantir get all this data together?
How did ICE and Palantir get all this data together?
January 31, 2026 at 3:40 AM
To target a "criminal or immigration nexus" the software pulls Americans' personal data from across the government, including data from Health and Human Services and other agencies unrelated to law enforcement.
How did ICE and Palantir get all this data together?
How did ICE and Palantir get all this data together?
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Dispatching ICE agents to hit "groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action," the software allows the administration to order up a goon squad wherever they want, at the touch of a button.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
January 31, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Dispatching ICE agents to hit "groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action," the software allows the administration to order up a goon squad wherever they want, at the touch of a button.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.
Like Uber for authoritarians. Let's call it repression as a service.