{"id":13703,"date":"2026-01-05T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:24:06","slug":"i-19-total-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/i-19-total-control\/","title":{"rendered":"I &#8211; 20 &#8211;  Total Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total Control &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A state can behave toward its people just like an abuser in a family. The \u201ccoercive controller\u201d takes complete control over the lives of others. In January 2026, the Iranian regime killed over 30,000 protesters in Iran. They killed their own people and turned the country\u2014which belongs to everyone\u2014into a slaughterhouse in order to maintain total control.<\/p>\n<p>When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, the Russian secret service withdrew from Lviv, first executing 5,000 political prisoners. When the Germans marched into Lviv, SS-Oberf\u00fchrer Karl Eberhard Sch\u00f6ngardt, born in Leipzig, had 22 professors of Polish descent, along with their family members, murdered on the night of July 3\u20134, 1941. It is estimated that up to 120,000 Lviv Jews were murdered during the German occupation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11400\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-768x1208.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-977x1536.jpg 977w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-1302x2048.jpg 1302w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KarlEberhardSchongarth-scaled.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl Eberhard Sch\u00f6ngardt \u2013 SS Brigadef\u00fchrer, Major General of the Police, and Head of the Gestapo in Dortmund<\/p>\n<p>In the photo: Fort de Queuleu\/SS Special Camp\/Memorial \/ Depiction of the treatment of prisoners using mannequins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Control &#8211; A state can behave toward its people just like an abuser in a family. The \u201ccoercive controller\u201d takes complete control over the lives of others. In January 2026, the Iranian regime killed over 30,000 protesters in Iran. They killed their own people and turned the country\u2014which belongs to everyone\u2014into a slaughterhouse in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preserving-family-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17791,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/17791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}