Why talk about Nazism today?
11. There are several reasons why I feel it is both necessary and desirable to raise the issue of the resurrection of Nazism in the Assembly. 12. First of all, the year 2005 was marked by the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and, just recently, the end of the Second World War. Thanks to the combined efforts of the Allies, humanity triumphed over the “plague of the 20th century” and Europe was given the opportunity to become what it stands for today. 13. The Nazi regime suffered not only a military defeat, but above all a political and ideological defeat. It seemed at the end of the war that the Nazi ideology founded on the concept of “natural inequality” and “racial superiority” and policies implemented by means of state terror and crimes against humanity would never see the light of day again. 14. The Assembly therefore has a duty to pay a solemn tribute to those who saved the world from Nazi domination and the Nazi “new order”, and to remember the m
