Scary

Politics has no entrails. A non-negligible sector of the new German generation has turned its eyes to Hitler , linking the German pride to that sinister and genocidal character. The television screens multiply every day hostile documentaries to the führer but, at the same time, they vomit the apotheosis of the Nazi demonstrations and the images of the Versailles shame wagon, ruled by Hitler with Olympic disdain to humiliate the French after crushing them with weapons.

What has just happened in Saxony and Brandenburg has set off alarms. Scary The neo-Nazis of AfD have become the second political force , approaching 30% of the votes. Its leader Andreas Kalbitz , by the way, actively participated in the neo-Nazi demonstrations of the year 2000. I speak with some German colleagues, old friends, and confirm the return of Nazism. Seven long decades have elapsed from denunciations of the atrocities and holocausts of the Hitler regime and the final defeat without conditions of Germany. The vast majority of citizens are against Nazi totalitarianism. But the outbreaks in their favor intensify day by day and manifest themselves in bursts in the results of the polls. And not only in Germany. The avalanche of documentaries, series and reports on Hitler and Nazism, which I referred to earlier, floods German homes, with the virtually unanimous condemnation of Hitlerism, but with conflicting results.

The troubled Francisco Ayala - long years of exile, long years of moderation and prudence - wrote in Spain to date : "Fascism raises in the multitudes purely emotional responses with renunciation of all rationality." Perhaps there is, at least in part, an explanation of the totalitarian tide that returns. The emotion against reason . The policy without entrails that forgets the atrocities and spilled blood to provoke the emotion of the Nazi screams and the manifestations of totalitarian apotheosis.

Fortunately, philosophers and sociologists analyze the new currents because history usually repeats its darkest passages if the lights of reason are not turned on in time. Adenauer always feared the return to political idolatry because, despite the holocaust, the tyrant's shadow was still lengthening and lengthening over Germany in freedom.

Luis María Anson , of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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