Today is Walpurgis night, the end of winter. The evil spirits of darkness will be banished as summer comes in tomorrow, Beltane, May 1st.
Today is also the day, 74 years ago, when one particularly evil spirit left this earth.
Adolf Hitler took his own life, as his Third Empire of a Thousand Years crumbled around him after barely a dozen years in existence.
It is one thing going on a spree of military conquest. There are no words to describe the industrialised murder of over 6 million people, purely on account of their faith, creed, provenance or disability. It is them I remember today. Hitler gained the ascendency through circumstances, not of his own making. We should take heed, as similar circumstances exist today.
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