Shooting by police
Sir,—l refer K. Duncan (May 3) to “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. The Nazis set the Reichstag on fire on February 27, 1933, and blamed Communists. The next day President Hindenburg granted powers allowing Hitler “to gag his opponents and arrest them at his will.” In the subsequent election campaign “only the Nazis and their Nationalist allies were permitted to campaign unmollested.” On March 5,1933, the Nazis won 44 per cent of the vote and the Nationalists 8 per cent With the
Reichstag Hitler swiftly seized absolute power. By November 12, 1933, trade unions, other parties, Communists and Jews had been outlawed, killed, jailed and exiled. Yet 88 per cent of Germans voted that day for the Nazi slate. Thus was the silent majority duped and its fears and prejudices manipulated. Your freedom and mine depends on the few who will not watch injustice done in silence. — Yours, etc., ALAN WILKINSON,
Leader, N.Z. Values Party. May 3, 1983.
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