I witnessed the rise of Nazism firsthand
Can you imagine what life was like if you were born a Jew in Berlin in 1930? Year by year, life would have become constrained, threatened, and dangerous by Nazi oppression. You could have been treated inhumanely in a concentration camp to death or put into a gas chamber. Whatever the reason, there were small numbers of people who were freed after the war and lived a new life. Dr. Irene Butter is one of such witnesses of Nazi brutality and cruelty in Germany back then. She was sent from the concentration camp in Holland to the infamous Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany as a prisoner, to Switzerland for a hostage exchange, to a refugee camp in Algeria, and finally to the United States of America as an immigrant in December 1945. Until then, she had been forced to do anything without choice. Indeed, she is one of the few surviving firsthand witnesses of Nazi fascism, racism, and nationalism. Seven decades and five years later on January 6 this year, she had to witness a similar incident at the US Capitol, the symbol of democracy, freedom, and equality when the rioters, some of whom with Nazi symbols, stormed into the capitol building while elected representatives arguing for impeachment.
It may be the time to hear what a firsthand witness of the rise of fascism and Nazism.
Read the article and learn about what happened to a teenage girl in Nazi Germany.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/opinions/holocaust-fascism-un-capitol-riots-butter/index.html
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