There Is NOTHING New Under The Sun!

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That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Long before the Nazis took power, concentration camps had featured in their imagination. Wachsmann finds Hitler threatening to put Jews in camps as early as 1921. But there were no detailed plans for building such camps when Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany, in January, 1933. A few weeks later, on February 27th, he seized on the burning of the Reichstag—by Communists, he alleged—to launch a full-scale crackdown on his political opponents. The next day, he implemented a decree, “For the Protection of People and State,” that authorized the government to place just about anyone in “protective custody,” a euphemism for indefinite detention. (The NewYorker, 2015)

Eyes Open!

Sources:

1. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201%3A9&version=NKJV

2. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/the-system-books-kirsch

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