...to expunge the Nazis from their national soul. Not to erase their names from history like children waving rattles at Purim to blot out Haman's name, but to burn the memory of the Nazis into the consciousness of the nation so that the German people themselves would say: Never Again. There will always be those dregs lurking in the corners -- but if I understand correctly, they were outlawed and outcast for the longest time.
Somehow I always thought it hubristic that America felt itself so strong that we could allow white nationalists like Bannon the shelter of our nation in the name of the First Amendment, as though countenancing a purulent infection like that could ever be safe.
History has its cycles... and the world has come back to something very dark. This era will either be remembered for the Rise of the Strongmen in all nations, including ours, or for how we fought it back in the US and in Europe.
Once I connected it to global climate change (the desertification of farmland leading to migrations to cities in the home country leading to unrest and crackdowns leading to the refugee crisis hitting Europe) I couldn't get that aspect of it out of my mind.
Strongmen use fear of the Other as a potent weapon. I have no idea how this will end.
Sorry to be such a downer tonight. 
There, that's better.
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