Thanks for your report, Manny. Please continue in your role as a journalistic sentry for democracy, standing on the wall of vigilance.

I have been to the Odeonplatz in Munich where hitler first attempted, backed by his brown/black-shirted thugs, to take over the German state.

It didn't work for those early nazis. They, along with their demonic leader adolf, were thrown in jail.

The Italian fascists, under mussolini, had just completed their first run against the normal people of Italy.

So up in deutschland, hitler's thugs did not relent. They gathered fascist madness from mussolini's successful example. They did not go away.

That beer hall putsch in Munich was in 1923. It took the nazis another decade to abscond enough power to take over the gov of germany and set the Reichstag afire.

That Reichstag fire was the german nazi manifestation of their "Jan6" moment.

We do not want to look back on the Jan6 treason and regret that we had not provided sufficient resistance--and lawful punishment of the offenders--to put their putrid putinesque pusch in a punishing prison.

When I was reading, at Odeonplatz in Munich, plaques about the beer hall putsch of 1923, and about the four German policeman who lost their lives that day, while trying to defend the Weimar republic against nazi turnover--while reading the commemorative plaques--I heard music. It was wafting through the air from a block away--klezmer music, a five-piece quintet blessing passersby with the sound of music.

The Bridge Ensemble--their unspoken message was obvious: Never Again!