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Rabbi Schacter of the U.S. Third Army delivers a religious service after the liberation of Buchenwald in this image which is on display at Yadvashem and the Buchenwald museum. Stephen Jacobs and his brother George both appear in the image.
Stephen B. Jacobs has a warning from the past for America today: It's happening again.
At 79 years old he is among the youngest of the living Holocaust survivors and was
born six years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. But Jacobs can remember life in the Nazi concentration camp at
Buchenwald; what the Nazis did to him, his family, his friends.
He worries about what's happening right now in America, where he has lived and prospered since arriving a couple of years after Buchenwald's liberation on April 11, 1945.
The American far-right appears emboldened since the election of President Donald Trump, who led an inflammatory, nationalist campaign. Since then,
clashes like the one in Charlottesville are becoming almost commonplace.
"Things just go from bad to worse every day," Jacobs, a successful New York architect who designed the Holocaust memorial at Buchenwald, tells
Newsweek. "There's a real problem growing."
So much so that Jacobs thinks there's a "direct parallel" with Germany between the two world wars.
Comment: There is an internal war going on within every Western intelligence community between 1) the patriots who sincerely see the problem posed by Islamic extremism and want to fight it, 2) the infiltrators, spies, and agents of Islamic groups, and 3) the cynical psychopaths who pretend to fight terrorists but who secretly support it domestically and internationally. There's a reason the swamp needs to be drained.