The saying "Wehret den Anfängen!" [Resist the Beginnings] does not come from the time of German fascism, but today it is associated with National Socialism and is meant to warn against pernicious developments.

It says that we have probably learned too little from the past to prevent something similar to the Holocaust in the future.

Historically, the winged word comes from the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE to circa 18 CE) in his writing "Remedia amoris" (Remedy for Love). Using the expression "Principiis obsta" he described that an unhappy love should be discarded from the beginning and then continues: "Sero medicina parata, cum mala per longas convaluere moras." That is, "Medicine is prepared too late, when the evils have grown stronger through long hesitation."

"Corona fates – Shocking report from an Australian quarantine facility"

When I read the report by Australian Hayley Hodgson in "RT.DE" today, I thought on the one hand of the depressing interviews of Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav and her fellow sufferers, and on the other hand as the famous quote by the German Protestant theologian and leading representative of the Confessing Church Martin Niemöller: "When the Nazis took the Communists…" Pastor Niemöller developed into a resistance fighter against Nazism in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.