Thank you. Some insight into you is helpful. I suspect we are divided by our sense of what is happening in America under Trump. Comparing Trump and Hitler upsets people on the right. And yet, Trump’s words and actions are terrifyingly familiar to Americans who grew up with concentration camp survivors who relayed first-hand experience of Germany before, during and after Hitler.

Surprisingly enough, the Nazis marched into power in such small steps, those arguing, opposing, examining or questioning them, hardly raised a brow. Only people who were watching the cumulative changes were able to see what was happening. And that is the reason, I addressed your reply.

By focusing on technicalities, I think, perhaps fear, you are missing the cumulative reality.

Hitler’s Germany was powered by technocrats, who avoided responsibility by burying themselves in numbers, data and the minutiae of planning. In fact, if you study the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials, you will find that Nazis repeatedly used their roles as technocrats to try and excuse their active and knowing participation in genocide.

Albert Speer’s, Inside the Third Reich, provides a deep dive into the mentality necessary to participate in the systematic murder of 6-million people. I recommend his book.

At this time, I have no interest in Trump himself. The collective behaviour exhibited by all enforcement agencies concerns me greatly. Law and Order is a TV show and the blowhard language of cowardly politicians. America’s domestic agencies are charged with “insuring domestic tranquility”. By following Trump’s lead, these agents of domestic tranquility are on the same path as the Nazis.

I concur with the judgement at Nuremberg; willful ignorance is a crime.