Surrender of the weak is all the tyrants need

THE BBC presents a TV programme explaining to today’s audience the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. It is well worth watching, and may be the most suitable method to reach present UK adults, who can only see personality politics, interpreting history through selected persons, loving flamboyant liars, rejecting boring honest politicians.

Fascist Spain and Italy slowly moved from monarchy to dictatorship, while Hitler, Goering and Himmler extended that to the Third Reich, conquest of lesser nations, which should last 1,000 years.

Under fascism, the state may demand the citizens’ lives. Under Nazism, the state murdered six million innocent citizens, for any reason it invented, from Jews to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Gypsies, partly by pretending that the concentration camp was only an internment camp, where work would make us free.

The BBC explained not only the victory of evil men, but also the surrender of weak men in authority, who facilitated that victory over any semblance of justice. To comprehend fully, it really is essential for each adult today to devote his life to finding that distinction between beliefs.

Does justice exist, a truth as real as myself? And, to achieve that clarity of vision for your mind, you need to recognise something of that progression through centuries. Nietzsche was a brilliant philosopher of the 19th century, who attacked the spineless weakness of Christ, who should be discarded, with all his compassion and sympathy, for us to worship strength and determination of purpose. The swastika is a twisted cross.

Eighty years later, Hitler used the beliefs of a dead, clever man, to commit the greatest crime in history. The lesson for us, is to search for higher purposes.