By Eamonn Keyes

The liberation of Auschwitz brought outrageous horror to the world. Along with Bergen Belsen and others, the nightmare of stick-thin bodies piled up like firewood and crematoria haunted my dreams as a child. 

Who could allow such a thing to happen? I remember discussions with parents about my questions as to whether there had been any ‘good Germans’ and if so, what had they done?

As the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust take part in the 80^th anniversary of liberation ceremonies the world seems to have collective amnesia as to the causes and the possibilities of this abomination being repeated. Keir Starmer has decided to emulate the ineffectual approach of Neville Chamberlain, happy to surrender countries and populations to monsters in the hope that they’ll be quiet for a bit. First, allowing Netanyahu to carry out his personal re-enactment of the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto on what is left of the savaged Palestinian state and its people, and secondly by consigning the rest, if there are any, of his remaining principles to the dustbin of history and reversing completely his previous statements and stance on Trump, leaving Grima Wormtongue looking Nelson Mandela.

The Western World has not looked so feeble, so soulless and so morally bankrupt since 1938.

In a scant week, Trump has reversed almost all civil liberties since the 1960s, the cities resound with his equivalent of ‘immigrants raus’ cries, with camps being set up, the most oppressed groups in society being targeted and public rallies in stadiums where grotesque theatre is displayed as law and order. 

We need reminded that Hitler came to power legally in a democratic election and then set about abolishing the parties that opposed him. That process has started in the USA with the removal of public servants who do not demonstrate personal loyalty to him, withdrawal from the bodies that do not fit his twisted agenda and can expose his lies with demonstrable facts, such as the WHO and the Paris Agreement, and the closure of agencies that he disagrees with politically. His personal Blackshirts have been pardoned, and thereby encouraged to continue their thuggery, now above the law.

The next steps may well be worse. The removal of immigrants will inevitably end in violence and possibly even death, and the ongoing ripping apart of the fabric of the American State by him will intensify, by convincing his supporters even further that the greatest enemies they have are their fellow citizens. The division is deliberate. It will give his sponsor, Vladimir Putin, a free hand in Eastern Europe whilst NATO frantically tries to work out what to do.

The time for that is now. Discount the USA, band together stronger and be more active in opposing Putin, otherwise the 1938 parallels will become the 1939 and 1940 parallels.

Trump will start war somewhere in order to emulate Franklin Roosevelt and claim a third term and possibly go even beyond that. Nothing is now impossible.

In years to come, people will analyse how The American Dream became the American Nightmare and ask the question ‘ were there any Good Americans?’, and if Farage also gains power, the wheel will have turned completely, with  the descendants of our grandfathers who fought against the Fascist Monster in Europe finding it sitting in Westminster.

All Of Us Together by Studio Creatures.

‘We’re on our way to a bonfire

Of books and people, truth and innocence

So many Fuhrers in the bunker

Making a mockery of our common sense

Never off our screens, always in the news

Proclaiming innocence while lighting a fuse

Pumping out gaslighting lies

Bankrolled by monsters

And denying the ties.

The only way to stop them is with 

All Of Us Together. “