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Day In History ► May 2 ► Adolf Hitler Bans Trade Unions

DATELINE – 1933: One of the important events in Adolph Hitler’s inexorable march to dictatorship and WWII was the banning of trade unions. Wisconsin? Are you listening? ‘Merka? Are you listening?

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist…”