NAZI GERMANYâS WAR ON TERRORISM
Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a âwar on terrorism,â establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadnât won a majority in the previous election).
âYou are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,â he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. âThis fire,â he said, his voice trembling with emotion, âis the beginning.â He used the occasion â âa sign from God,â he called it â to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their âevilâ deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nationâs flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nationâs now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into peopleâs homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic âDecree on the Protection of People and Stateâ passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained.
Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The Fatherland. As hoped, peopleâs hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was âtheâ homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.
Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitlerâs advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.
Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agencyâs initials: the SS.
And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military, and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained by war.
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