The parallels between the U.S. today and 1930s Germany are frightening. Our current leader is as ideologically bent and radical as Hitler and I fear could similarly use some Reichstag fire crisis as an excuse to end civil liberties. We are fortunate there are some differences between these times. First the government has not yet succeeded in disarming the people and second the rank and file in the military loath their commander and chief.
About 12 yrs. ago, while we were living near Stuttgart, Germany, a Germany friend shared with me those exact fears regarding our nation.