Friday, February 1, 2013

Germany's Chancellor Merkell: Complacency enabled Hitler to seize control

Merkel gave a warning to the German people...I wonder if it was meant as a message to somewhere else as well?
On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to always fight for their principles and not fall into the complacency that enabled the Nazi dictator to seize control. 
Speaking Wednesday at the opening of a new exhibit at the Topography of Terror memorial documenting Hitler's election, Merkel noted that German academics and students at the time happily joined the Nazis only a few months later in burning books deemed subversive. 
"The rise of the Nazis was made possible because the elite of German society worked with them, but also, above all else, because most in Germany at least tolerated this rise," Merkel said. 
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The fact that Hitler was able to destroy German democracy in only six months serves as a warning today of what can happen if the public is apathetic, Merkel said.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Bosman, for your dedication.