At least Hitler's dreamed of Third Reich never wanted to get rid of Western Civilization altogether. He wanted to pervert it but it would have still been western and still be European.
What Merkel is doing is far worse.
I agree. In the late 20th and early 21st century, we started witnessing an entirely new political phenomenon: national leaders who hate the nations, people, and cultures who they rule over.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that the elites of Europe and the United States are more than happy to see their own countries abolished in the name of promoting a new order of transnational finance and multiculturalism. To find a precedent for this, you'd have to go back to Nero burning Rome.