The supreme discipline of insulting has always been the Hitler comparison.

But for some time now, the greatest happiness in self-empowerment has been to be compared with someone from the resistance against National Socialism.

It started with Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam, who put the Holocaust into perspective in a “Spiegel” interview as follows: “Climate change is only the pipe through which gas flows into the gas chamber.”

And now Carola Rackete.