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Lessons of history remain unlearned
MARCEL CARTIER looks at the spectre of anti-communism that begins to haunt Germany again
The monument to KPD leader Ernst Thalmann and Reichstag burns in February 1933
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ALMOST every day, I have the job of taking scores of tourists to some of the most important historical landmarks of Berlin. For many, this is their first glimpse of a city that was the focal point for so many of the 20th century’s most important struggles.
At the Reichstag building, where Germany’s current Parliament also meets, I make sure to reference the fact that the fire of 1933 was the pretext used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers’ Party – NSDAP) to consolidate their dictatorship.
I tell people that because the accused culprits were communists, this conveniently allowed Hitler to push for emergency powers through the Enabling Act.
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