A White Supremacist becomes White House Chief of Staff on the 88th Anniversary of “Kristallnacht” when Nazi goons, terrorized & killed Jews, destroyed businesses, Temples and incarcerated 30,000 men.
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(The cover of award-winning journalist Jean Guerrero’s definitive book on Stephen Miller, entitled: “Hate Monger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.” The detailed book, which carefully examines Miller’s history and interviews many of his family members, was published in 2020 by Harper Collins, NY.)
It’s bad enough that Stephen Miller, a rabid, ideologically insane White Supremacist, has been picked by Donald Trump to be the new White House Chief of Staff, the single most powerful staff position in any Administration.
What makes it even worse, is Miller/Trump’s sadistic choice of November 9, 2026—a date of incredibly powerful symbolism and significance in both Nazi and Holocaust history—to announce the depraved Miller’s appointment to the world.
It is the eery evil equivalent of Adolf Hitler giving a public greenlight to his Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbel’s fanatical plan to use armed militias to terrorize, torture and imprison Jews on the evening of November 9 through 10, 1938, a horrible day of history known as “Kristallnacht”, or “the night of the broken glass.” It’s a name that does not do justice to the extent of hatred, violence and inhumanity unleashed against “leftist, radical Jews” on that night throughout the Third Reich.
Certainly Stephen Miller, raised in a Jewish family where his maternal grandmother Ruth kept a meticulous family history recounting their escape from pogroms in Eastern Europe, knew of the towering importance of “Kristallnacht’s” significance to Jews and oppressed people worldwide. Miller does not choose these dates at random, and is often guided by key worldwide White Nationalist dates or places, to stage events for dramatic effect. The launch of Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign in Waco, Texas—a shrine to anti-government White Nationalists—comes to mind.
Yet, “Kristallnacht” and its sinister place in the Nazi’s twelve-year war against the Jews, wasn’t the only loaded meaning of November 9th, as a day to celebrate the ascendancy of Goebbels’ doppelganger to the pinnacle of White House power. November 9th is also the anniversary of Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” of 1923, where Hitler and hundreds of armed thugs attempted, and failed, to overthrow the government of Bavaria. Some 15 Nazi “ Brownshirts” and 4 Bavarian police officers were killed in the Beer Hall battle, with Hitler—sentenced to treason—eventually serving a mere nine months in prison.
Miller knew this too, since it was at a Munich “Putsch” celebration at Munich’s Town Hall on November 9, 1938—just hours before Goebbels ghoulish attacks on Jews throughout the Reich—where Hitler empowered Goebbels to begin ridding Germany of Jews. Somewhere, Joseph Goebbels—Stephen Miller’s soulmate—is cracking a sadistic grin.
“Kristallnacht” was not just another day of Nazi brutality, according to Lucy Dawidowicz, author of the historic War Against the Jew, 1933-1945 (Bantam Press, NY, 1975):
“Goebbels called the signals which were picked up by the Party and SS leaders all over Germany…Now Goebbels became the advocate for mob violence and the architect of a Mob-action program…After Hitler left the celebration of the Munich Putsch at the Hall, Goebbels delivered an inflamatory exhortation to the assemblage calling for “spontaneous, violent demonstrations.”
The violent pogrom against the Jews on November 9/10, 1938, was unleashed in towns and villages throughout the country:
“Synagogues and Jewish Institutions were burned to the ground. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed. Nearly 100 Jews were killed and thousands more subjected to wanton violence and sadistic torments…”
The “sadistic torments,” which no doubt pleased the cruel and ghoulish Goebbels, were recorded contemporaneously by a US State Department Official in Leipzig:
“ Having demolished dwellings and hauled most of the moveable effects to the streets, the insatiably sadistic perpetrators threw many of the trembling people into a small stream that flows through the Zoological Park, commanding horrified spectators to spit at them, defile them with mud, and jeer at their plight.”
Dawidowicz underscored the extent of the brutality:
“About 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in Buchenwald, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen.”
Those incarceration centers—later used as concentration camps to slaughter millions of Jews—were Goebbels’ 1938 version of Stephen Miller’s present-day prison-like deportation centers.
In his national bestseller, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage Books, Random House, NY, 1997), Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, confirmed that Goebbels was the monstrous mastermind of “Kristallnacht”, and that:
“So unsettling was the sight of the SA & SS men and others bursting with savagery, wreaking destruction and death in the streets of their communities, that for the first time some non-Jewish and non-leftist Germans began to wonder whether this radical movement might yet turn on them.”
That’s precisely the kind of fear and terror Donald Trump wants to strike in the minds of average Americans as he launches his desperate post-election day campaign by appointing the ranting, White Nationalist Miller as his Chief of Staff, announcing that his “resolve to fight the radical left will only become stronger.” Those are identical to words which Miller has written for Trump in previous speeches, virtually verbatim quotes from those written by Adolf Hitler in his relentless screed of attacks on Jews throughout Mein Kampf, which he wrote during his brief time in prison
Yet, while the selecting of the dual anniversaries of the deadly “Kristallnacht”, and of the violent, failed Nazi-coup against the German State, was a chilling reminder of the depths of Miller’s “lust for power,” (as Henrik Himmler described what drove his colleague Goebbels) and his sadism, it’s Miller’s record of carnage over civil, human and constitutional rights—and his mean, cruel fanaticism over family separation— which are even more disturbing.
In an August, 2020 NPR interview on “Fresh Air,” with Terri Gross, Hate Monger author Jean Guerrero, told listeners of some of the things she uncovered about Miller:
GUERRERO: One of the first things that Stephen Miller did when he entered the White House was work on an executive order that established an office that was dedicated to the daily demonization of immigrants. It’s called the Victims of Immigration and Crime Engagement – VOICE. And it essentially is tasked with issuing regular press releases about the crimes of immigrants. And, you know, from my conversations with White House officials, he would repeatedly push for including photos of immigrants who looked particularly scary. Like, he was obsessed with pointing out people’s tattoos in photographs and trying to create this image that immigrants are committing crimes across our country and are very dangerous.
GROSS: Was Stephen Miller the architect of the family separation policy that separated children from their parents?
GUERRERO: Stephen Miller was one of the primary advocates of this policy. He didn’t come up with the idea. It was actually an official at ICE who brought it to the table, but Stephen Miller became its primary advocate and making sure that it was actually pushed through because there was this idea that if you systematically separate children from their parents, then families are no longer going to want to come here. So again, it goes back to trying to deter family immigration into the United States through the performance of cruelty as a deterrence strategy.
Hundreds of parents were deported without their children. And people were lost in this process because there wasn’t sufficient coordination between the Department of Homeland Security and the Health and Human Services Department because Stephen Miller had rammed this through kind of without going through the normal policy process.
I have no indication from my conversations with people who know him and who’ve worked with him that he ever questioned his advocacy for this policy. He truly believed that it was going to work. And when it was stopped by a federal judge in San Diego, he was very upset. You know, he would be on phone calls yelling about how people are dying. He repeatedly screamed that people are dying and that the family separation policy was necessary…
GUERRERO: Stephen Miller found ways around the bureaucracy; he was repeatedly calling – he would reach deep into the bowels of agencies to call lower-ranking officials and and make his demands ,to push his agenda through. With the refugee admissions he tasked the State Department with creating a report on the cost of refugees for the United States. And he told them that, you know, this report better not embarrass the president – so essentially asking that the research that was produced imply that refugees are very costly and, therefore, we need to slash refugee admissions. And when a copy of the report was leaked and showed that, in fact, they were a net gain for our economy, Stephen Miller was very angry and ignored the report and continued to push for a decrease in the refugee admissions….
He also always made sure in meetings that he was the last person talking to President Trump. And Trump tends to go with whatever advice was whispered into his ear last. And so Stephen Miller, you know, he has direct access to the president, and he’s able to have this outsized influence by, you know, his access to him. ”
But it was not only his foes—inside and outside of the Trump Administration—who found Miller’s deceitful, bizarre and pathologically warped behavior to be strange and potentially very dangerous. His own family is “ashamed to be associated with him,” Guerrero told NPR’s Gross:
“A lot of them told me that they see him as someone who needs to be punished for his crimes against humanity.”
Let that sink in for a while. That’s a verdict passed on Stephen Miller from his own family. His own family members, thinking that one of them needs to be punished for his crimes against humanity. Astonishing.
Guerrero goes on to recount a conversation she had with an aunt of Miller’s:
“One of his aunts was telling me that she truly believes that he’s unleashed a Pandora’s Box of hatred in the country that is going to be very difficult to contain after they leave office..IF they leave office.”
NPR’s Gross also asked Guerrero about Miller’s “tough guy, bullying,” persona. Guerrero’s response was revealing, and reminiscent of Rudy Guliani’s obsession with the characters in The Godfather:
“Miller loves the DeNiro character in “Casino”…he loves these male personalities who kind of disregard everyone else and just exert their will in the world…”
Then, the author of the single most comprehensive book on Stephen Miller as both a “hatemonger,” and a hateful human being, drew the inevitable comparison to his boss, Donald Trump, to whom Miller has been blindly loyal since 2015.
After noting that Miller even lied about the cause of his 97-year old grandmother Ruth’s death during Trump’s botched COVID response—despite her certified death certificate which records her cause of death as “Coronavirus”—because it was contrary to the Trump narrative. Imagine lying about the death of the cherished matriarch of your family to cover-up for the web of lies spread by your boss?
“It goes back to this toxic notion of what it is to be a man that I think Stephen Miller and Donald Trump share because they grew up in very similar cut-throat families that were very combative about their business dealings, and often accused of cheating people out of money, and of, you know, not being honest in their business dealings,” Guerrero said.
Or being honest with themselves, or anyone else, for that matter. It’s why they couldn’t admit, nor accept, the shellacking, they just took at the polls—much of which both Trump & Miller brought about. To accept it is to shatter the fragile image of their own manhood, hidden behind a veil of denial and delusion.
Instead, they do what the tough guys of their imagination do: they double down on the erratic, cruel behavior that caused the massive defeat in the first place. It’s why Hitler & Goebbels saw “cyanide tablets,” as the only manly-way out of their crushing defeat, and the crimes against humanity they committed during the 1930’s and 1940’s. Tragically, it was predictably psychopathic that Goebbels and his equally mad wife, Magda, also poisoned their six children in the Fuhrer’s bunker, when they knew all was lost.
Don’t be surprised if the second “night of the broken glass,” aimed at the imaginary arch-enemies of Miller and Trump—non-white people and their white allies—is about to begin.
Their paramilitary force—in the form of ICE—is in place all across the country, awaiting instructions as to where and when to strike; the government’s armed forces are under the command of yet another megalomanical, insecure man, locked in a life and death culture war with black and female military officers—at least until he gets impeached, which may happen as early as this week.
Election Day was their panicked emergency excuse to “break glass,” for all the wrong reasons. The emergency is upon all of us as well. We must carefully watch for the verbal and visual signals from the Joseph Goebbels of our time, and his erratic role model, and have the courage and resolve to stand up, and shut them down at the first sign of law-breaking, violence or inhumanity.