Ambiguous but alarming new wording, which is tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and was just passed by the Senate, is reminiscent of the “extraordinary measures” introduced by the Nazis after they took power in 1933.
The writer was Sebastian Haffner (real name Raimond Pretzel), a young German lawyer worried at what he saw in 1933 in Berlin, but helpless to stop it since, as he put it, the German people “collectively and limply collapsed, yielded and capitulated.”
“The result of this millionfold nervous breakdown,” wrote Haffner at the time, “is the unified nation, ready for anything, that is today the nightmare of the rest of the world.” Not a happy analogy.
3 comments:
As always, another cogent and thought provoking post.
I understand this this blog's chief blogger is leaving his post and that, very soon, this blog will no longer be updated. This is most unfortunate, as it has proven to be a dependable source of criminology news.
Long live the Centre of Criminology Library Blog.
The blog will continue. Tom
Yay Tom!!
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