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History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begun

The Guardian - US · Sep 20, 2025

Nazi Germany imposes Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship – archive, 1935

On 15 September 1935, Hitler’s regime introduced laws depriving German Jews of their citizenship and forbidding marriage between Jews and ‘citizens of German or kindred blood’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2025

We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump’s Reichstag fire

Take heed from European history: this could be the pretext for the repression of the US president’s political opponents, says Belgian author and philosopher David Van Reybrouck

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2025

Fascism: It's really back this time

A neofascist party will likely take power in Italy — and if economic collapse continues, there will be more

Salon · Sep 27, 2022