Socialist Workers Party Führer, Choom Banned, Treblinka Rebellion

On This Progressive Day: August 2

Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist German Workers Party becomes Führer of progressive Germany (1934)

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal (1937)

Rebellion in the National German Socialist Workers Party death camp of Treblinka (1943)

President B. Hussein Obama signs the Budget "Control" Act of 2011 hiking the federal debt ceiling, continuing his wildly successful Cloward-Piven strategy (2011)

b: Karl Otto Koch (1897); d: Edward Aveling (1898), Paul von Hindenburg (1934), William S. Burroughs (1997)

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