LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The leader of the Diocese of Little Rock made a public statement on Monday comparing the current American experience to 1930s Germany as the Nazi rose into power.
The statement from Bishop Anthony Basil Taylor was posted to his Facebook account, in multiple languages, and was also published in Arkansas Catholic and National Catholic Reporter.
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The bishop bases his parallels on his own experience through his grandfather, who, he said, lost 20 first cousins during the Holocaust. Hitler was an eloquent speaker who was able to tap into the understandable fears and anger of people, he said.
Fear of arrest and fear of beating by Nazi Brownshirts kept people quiet, Taylor said, pointing out that the first concentration camps were for political opponents…