There are different stories on each disaster depending on the witnesses, where they are located when it happens, and their life experiences before witnessing it. I am glad you brought up the Reichstag fire. The very first thing that popped into my mind was 9-11 which I would now think of as the “American Reichstag.”
Another interesting coincidence is that in 1900, Germany was on top of the world in science, education and power. Any American getting a degree from a place like Heidelberg would be fast-tracked on a successful career in the faculty of any American Ivy League university. We all know what happened to Germany by 1945.
In 2000, the U.S. occupied the same position as Germany did in 1900. The way things happened in the U.S. after 9-11 comes dangerously close to what you stated happened to Germany after that fire. We may not have a single entity like the Nazis in power, but now I am wondering what will be left of America by the mid-twenty-first century.
History does repeat itself, which is why we must learn from it… Peter Malkin, the ex-Mossad agent who led the capture of Eichmann in Buenos Aires concludes his tale of the operation with the following: “Could the Holocaust happen again? Who can say? I only know it is a question we must never stop asking.
There are different stories on each disaster depending on the witnesses, where they are located when it happens, and their life experiences before witnessing it. I am glad you brought up the Reichstag fire. The very first thing that popped into my mind was 9-11 which I would now think of as the “American Reichstag.”
Another interesting coincidence is that in 1900, Germany was on top of the world in science, education and power. Any American getting a degree from a place like Heidelberg would be fast-tracked on a successful career in the faculty of any American Ivy League university. We all know what happened to Germany by 1945.
In 2000, the U.S. occupied the same position as Germany did in 1900. The way things happened in the U.S. after 9-11 comes dangerously close to what you stated happened to Germany after that fire. We may not have a single entity like the Nazis in power, but now I am wondering what will be left of America by the mid-twenty-first century.
History does repeat itself, which is why we must learn from it… Peter Malkin, the ex-Mossad agent who led the capture of Eichmann in Buenos Aires concludes his tale of the operation with the following: “Could the Holocaust happen again? Who can say? I only know it is a question we must never stop asking.