'Human swastika' at San Jose high school prompts investigation

[Behind the Aegis]

A photo of eight teenagers lying in the shape of a swastika on Branham High School’s football field, accompanied by an antisemitic quote from Adolf Hitler, circulated online Wednesday, raising concerns in the district and beyond.

The photo was initially posted on Instagram by an account that featured the first and last name of a student who attends the San Jose public school. The post and account were removed from Instagram by Friday morning.

Branham High School Principal Beth Silbergeld condemned the incident on Thursday in a statement sent through an online portal for parents. J. obtained a screenshot of the statement.

“Branham High School is aware of a recent incident circulating on social media that does not reflect the values of our school community,” Silbergeld said in the statement. “The incident is being investigated in accordance with district procedures, and appropriate follow-up will occur. We want to be clear: Branham stands firmly against all forms of hate, discrimination, and intolerance. Acts that target, demean, or threaten others have no place on our campus.”


This image of eight teenagers laying in the shape of a swastika on a football field has been circulating online.


A screenshot of the Instagram post featuring eight students lying in the formation of a swastika on Branham High School’s football field and an Adolf Hitler quote in the caption.

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[3catwoman3]

1. Dumbasses. Watch them squeal about free speech...

...if any consequences are imposed by the school.

Looks like all boys. Future incels?

[Igel]

15. Look all like boys to me.

Then again, I could be overlooking some cases of gynecomastia.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Yeah, sure, free speech.

But you are not immune from the consequences of using your free HATE speech, ya little shits. See how you like alternative school.

[Iggo]

12. Time to exercise OUR free speech and teach them ALL about nazis.

All of it.

Hilarious, huh, you little pieces of shit.

[rsdsharp]

3. When are the little fuckers going to be expelled?

I don’t think detention is going to cut it.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Lived in the neighborhood of this school for ten years (as a renter)

It is the heart of Silicon Valley. Home prices are through roof. Fifty-year-old tract homes with 1300 square feet and a small yard go for 1.5 million and up. Like all of San Jose, it has a majority minority population. Just really hard to square this in my mind. To call this a blue area does not do it justice.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. It's not 8 teenagers, it's 8 white male teenagers.

We won’t be fixing the obvious without acknowledging the obvious.

[Cha]

6. The Stupid Hate in these "clever"

boys Burns Red Hot.

They should be suspended until further notice.. and really taught their fucking little show was them FAFO.

I'm so sorry, BtA~

[Chasstev365]

7. As a retired High School Social Studies teacher

I suggest that the Social Studies department at Branham High School in San Jose, CA might want to revisit their curriculum and how they teach the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

[Stardust Mirror]

9. San Jose? Where two mass shootings have happened in the last week or two?

WTF is in the water there?

[Initech]

10. Fucking gross. We fought a war against this already. They lost.

Fuck all Nazis.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

13. hope the don't get into the college of choice

and I am so glad I went to school before the smartphone could instantly tell everyone what a fool you are. In the good old days you had to meet them in person and find out one by one.

I see a couple of kids covered their faces, wonder why they did that ?

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Kids raised on Trump whose parents were raised on Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush 2

They are the ones who imported the NAZIs post World War II.

The CIA’s Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis

Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war--the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union

By Martin A. Lee | May 1, 2001

“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind …”

That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War.

Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.

Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war–the CIA’s use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.

The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.

“The real winners of the cold war were Nazi war criminals, many of whom were able to escape justice because the East and West became so rapidly focused after the war on challenging each other,” says Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations and America’s chief Nazi hunter. Rosenbaum serves on a Clinton-appointed Interagency Working Group (IWG) committee of U.S. scholars, public officials, and former intelligence officers who helped prepare the CIA records for declassification.

Many Nazi criminals “received light punishment, no punishment at all, or received compensation because Western spy agencies considered them useful assets in the cold war,” the IWG team stated after releasing 18,000 pages of redacted CIA material. (More installments are pending.)

These are “not just dry historical documents,” insists former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a member of the panel examining the CIA files. As far as Holtzman is concerned, the CIA papers raise critical questions about American foreign policy and the origins of the cold war.

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https://fpif.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/

NAZIs, friends of John McCloy, Allen Dulles and Prescott Bush and their friends through James Jesus Angleton, J Edgar Hoover and George DeMohrenschildt.

[electric_blue68]

16. Disgusting. Should be some kind of consequences for them!

[BWdem4life]

17. They weren't laying, they were lying. nt

[Solly Mack]

18. Depraved.

[flvegan]

19. It took 2 days to remove from Instagram?

Here's hoping these precious little crotch goblins are expelled.

Of course then, their (probably) equally shitty parents will go cry on GiveSendGo about their perfect little angels and the world just misunderstanding a swastika and Hitler quote, and the dough from inbred miscreant nazi imbecile sympathizers will just roll in.