After the news was announced that generals, admirals, and other top military officials had to travel to Washington for a meeting, one retired general recalled a similar action in 1930s Germany. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered all top military leaders to attend a meeting on Tuesday, sparkin...

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges wrote on X, “July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.”

Hegseth reposted it with his own commentary, “Cool story, General.”

  • KnitWit@lemmy.world
    65·
    11 days ago

    Well, I guess we know at least one of the 25% I predict will be fired at that meeting.

    Edit: I guess that guy is retired, so more likely ‘guess who’s about to be called back to service and court martialled.‘

    • West_of_West@piefed.socialEnglish
      531·
      11 days ago

      I looked him up. He is already retired from US military. A known democratic, endorsing both Harris and Biden. Nowadays it looks like he’s on a couple research and strategic groups and works for NATO directly.