Threat to scrap Human Rights Act could see UK follow Nazi example, warns UN official
Source: The Independent
Britain risks following the example of Nazi Germany if the Conservatives go through with a threat to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights, a senior UN official has warned.
Professor Crépeau, a Canadian academic, said: "We have to remember the 1930s and how the rights of the Jews were restricted in Germany and then the rights of the whole German people.
"I mean, countries that go down the path of reducing the rights of one category of people usually don’t stop there."
Britain played a leading role in establishing the ECHR in the 1950s, in a Europe still struggling to come to grips with the atrocities carried out by the Nazis during the Second World War.
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“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed".
― Adolf Hitler
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