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    SYSTEM BREAKDOWN

    Jun 20, 2021 4 minutes
    by PAUL THOMAS

    ‘January 6” has become shorthand for the storming of the US Capitol, intended to prevent the formal certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. January 6, 2021, was also the 75th anniversary of a poignant historical moment and call to conscience: a sermon delivered in Frankfurt by Lutheran pastor and concentration camp survivor Martin Niemöller.

    As an anti-communist, anti-Semitic conservative, Niemöller initially supported Adolf Hitler. However, his opposition to the Nazification of Germany’s Protestant churches resulted in his imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945.

    Niemöller’s January 6, 1946, sermon condemned the cowardice

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