LESSONS LEARNED?

By John P. Flannery

LESSONS LEARNED?

See any similarities with Hitler — consider the book by Trump’s bed stand -

Eighty years ago, on 30 January 1933, President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler to the position of Chancellor of the Reich.

In the years preceding Hitler’s appointment the Nazis and their paramilitary units, the SA and SS, had already been engaging in a steady campaign of terror against the labour movement — the left — while the state looked the other way.

On 30 January 1933 this terror was made legal.

By February SA and SS units were being deployed as auxiliary police officers and given official powers.

Their fight against the labour movement — the left — had become an officially sanctioned state policy.

BUT THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE — could it?

JPF