Bonn – The President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Thomas Krüger, has vigorously rejected attempts by critics of the new Infection Protection Act to equate it with the Enabling Act of the National Socialists of 1933. “Anyone who defames the Infection Protection Act as an ‘enabling law’ is not lacking in political education,” he told the “editorial network Germany” (Friday editions).
“On the contrary: These people are specifically trying to hijack political processes, disavow democracy and in this way push through their own agenda.” Political education must oppose this by enabling people to recognize the effectiveness of language and the interests behind it and to deconstruct false analogies. During the debate and vote in the Reichstag on March 23, 1933 on the “Law to Eliminate the Needs of the People and the Reich”, i.e. the “Enabling Act”, all 84 MPs of the KPD had already been imprisoned or had fled. The same applies to 26 SPD members, the remaining faction of the SPD had courageously voted against despite all intimidation.
In contrast, the opposition parties in the Bundestag are of course not only present, they also have all rights. Ultimately, the aim of the Enabling Act was to abolish the republic, the aim of the Infection Protection Act was to protect the population, the economy and the state for the duration of a pandemic of the century. “The Infection Protection Act puts the applicable ordinances to combat the pandemic on a constitutional basis. Our Parliament will still be able to act without restriction tomorrow and can repeal the Infection Protection Act at any time,” said the President of the Federal Office.
In contrast, according to the Enabling Act, the Reichstag met only 19th times until 1942 and then not at all until 1945. It was a sham parliament in which only a total of seven laws were passed, compared to almost 1,000 laws that were decreed by the Reich government. On Wednesday, several thousand people demonstrated in the Bundestag against the Infection Protection Act, drawing a parallel between the Infection Protection Act and the Enabling Act.
