The speaker of the Israeli parliament recalled the crimes of the Nazi era in an address to the German parliament on Thursday and issued a call for democracy to be safeguarded. “This is a place where humanity stretched the boundaries of evil, a place where loss of values turned a democratic framework into racist and discriminatory tyranny,” Mickey Levy told the Bundestag to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. “So, it is here, within the walls of this house – which stand as silent witnesses of stone and steel – that we learn anew of the fragility of democracy and are reminded once more of our obligatio…