One of the main reasons Hitler appealed to Germans was because of his emphasis on law and order. After World War I there were attempted street revolutions, not the least being Hitler’s own failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. In addition there was lots of violence in the streets. When Hitler came to power, his policemen were everywhere.

Now we have car torchings in Berlin, the capital city. They seem to be oriented most in the former East Berlin, but they’re moving West. This is the sort of thing to which Hitler would have been very sensitive with his talk of “hordes from the East” and “defeat the Communists”.

What Hitler wouldn’t have understood is this sort of activity, arson, looting, rioting, spreading from Great Britain. In his day Britain was like America is now. They were the top dog. They should know better. And what he really, really wouldn’t have understood is the origin of these riots in Greece and Spain and spreading via the Internet and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. He wouldn’t have liked the new “connectedness” of the European Union — unless he ruled it and set down the values. He valued Germany First and Germany Awake, not Germany as a small part of an interconnected whole without standards laid down from above. He hated democracy and thought it was the reason for Germany’s decline. And he would have used these riots nowadays as fodder for his National Socialism. He would have said, “I told you so.”

Germany, surely you don’t want the ghost of Hitler to snicker at you, do you?