When I finished reading the book “Syndrome ” and started writing this article about what seemed most relevant to me, the war in Ukraine had not yet started. In Spain the concerns were located in a different order of things. The end of the pandemic, the early elections in Castilla y León and the electoral rise of an electoral force like VOX that vindicates Francoism and who has never been heard to criticize or speak ill of Hitler and German Nazism that, with its expansionist desires, It dragged Europe and the world into World War II. Probably when Pope Francis recommended its reading to the delegation that, led by Pedro Sánchez, visited him in October , he was seriously concerned about the rise of extreme right-wing positions that were advancing in many countries around the world.
His words, recorded in a video and an official note from the Vatican, attest to this. ' Syndrome' , written by Siegmund Ginzberg , Italian intellectual, journalist for L'Unitá, the historic newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, is focused on Germany at that time, the Saudi Arabia Mobile Number List national socialist ideology and the gradual and violent process that led to Hitler to obtain majority electoral support from the German people, to govern without scruples and restrictions, eliminating all internal opposition, the critical press and any cultural manifestation contrary to Nazi, racist and xenophobic principles. In a serious tone, in a very respectful atmosphere, the Pope sent a kind of message to Spain about the dangers of nationalism and ideologies, saying the following: "Ideologies sectarianize, ideologies deconstruct the homeland, they do not build.
We must learn that from history. In this book the author, with great delicacy, makes a comparison with what is happening in Europe: 'be careful, we are making a path similar.' It's worth reading." Ginzberg reconstructs in detail, with well-documented bibliographic sources, the details of the conquest of power by Nazism and the collapse of all other political and social forces, which were eliminated one after another, their leaders imprisoned, their property confiscated and declared illegal. He wonders how it was possible that unions with millions of members, parties with a large parliamentary presence and history behind them, were diluted overnight like a sugar in a glass of water.