A social media post from the Department of Labor is attracting criticism for appearing to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century.
The department posted to X on Jan. 10, “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”
Dozens of users commented and reposted, expressing alarm and outrage over what they called an alarming echo of what the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum describes as one of the central slogans used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. That slogan is, “One People, One Realm, One Leader.”
Adam Tooze, a British historian and author who has written about the Third Reich and Nazi Germany, said on social media that the phrase is from a “white nationalist anthem.”
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that there are have been more than one federal agency reported to have done this in the past week.
I think the other instance wasn’t actually a Nazi thing, and the first references to it were January of this year.
It just sounded like a Nazi thing, which really isn’t any better.