In Nicaragua Ortega and Murillo have established a dictatorial regime, whose crimes some experts are even comparing to those committed by the Nazis.
Ortega and Murillo in campaign. Photo: AP.
While a euphoric and effusive crowd greets their top leader, who arrives in a Mercedes Benz vehicle, his escorts and officials do not move a single meter away from him. The man with the mustache and with his hand raised goes to the main stage to offer his feverish speech before the masses that idolize him.
No, it is not about the Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, who also uses a Mercedes Benz and is idolized by Sandinista fanatics, but we must go back 90 years, and the man in question is none other than Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NDSAP), the Nazi party, who led Germany with an iron fist and by blood and fire from 1933 to 1945.
Although the figure of Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo do not have the global significance that they would like, the reality is that the crimes that both are accused of are comparable, according to experts, to those committed by the Nazis.
“All the elements that are seen in Nicaragua, unfortunately, can be seen in the Nuremberg Trials,” said the president of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua (Ghren), Jan- Michael Simon, when presenting a report confirming that the Sandinista regime has committed crimes against humanity.
Mario Firmenich, a former Argentine guerrilla in the pay of Daniel Ortega
Hitler in 1933 eliminated existing political parties, creating a one-party state. But he also disrupted the cultural and scientific realm by carrying out a “cleansing,” so that “non-German” was removed and books by Jewish, left-wing, and pacifist writers were burned. These too were forced into exile or were destined for concentration camps and consequently death.
He “cooked” his own laws
Hitler and the Nazis changed the laws to suit them in Germany. Upon coming to power they immediately established a dictatorship. They increasingly used legal resources to give an appearance of legality to their crimes and abuses while the dictator undermined democracy until it became just a facade.
Hitler denationalized the Jews and stripped them of their goods and property. On April 1, 1933, he organized a boycott of liberal Jewish businessmen and professionals. Anti-Semitic laws were also adopted. Consequently, many Jewish citizens left Germany. In the first days of April 1933 alone, hundreds of Jews took refuge in Amsterdam.
In September 1935, the Nazi party announced extensive legislation on nationality and citizenship. Through the notorious “Nuremberg Racial Laws,” he delimited Jews from the community of the German people. So only Germans of German origin could remain German citizens.
When Ortega asked for forgiveness and even got married in the Catholic Church
James G. MacDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations, reported at that time the economic collapse of a large part of the German Jews as a result of these measures, anticipating a new exodus.
Hitler also ordered “operation Hummingbird” or “night of the long knives”, between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when a cleansing was mounted against all those who considered themselves opponents of the dictatorship in the main cities of Germany, and purges of those who might stand in the way of his goal of controlling all structures of the German state.
Persecution and exile of opponents
“Broken Glass Night” was another bloody persecution against the Jews ordered by Hitler. It happened on the night of November 9, 1938, on whose tragic day some 90 Jews were murdered, 191 synagogues burned, some 7,000 businesses were looted, and 26,000 Jews were arrested and transferred to concentration camps.
The Nazi dictatorship not only forced opponents and Jews into exile, but also kept their properties.
Adolf Hitler was a dictator with great military and political skills who wanted to establish an absolute hegemony of Germany over other countries.
He also came to control the media and censored all criticism against him. It had a huge propaganda machine, under the control of Joseph Goebbels.
Curiously, Hitler committed suicide in 1945, the same year that Daniel Ortega was born in Nicaragua.
