Erika Fabian (Image: Erika Fabian) A woman who survived both Hitler and Stalin says the warning signs of totalitarianism are flashing in the West once again. Erika Fabian was four years old when the Nazis came for her family in Budapest. Eight decades on, the Holocaust survivor and author says she recognises the early stages of authoritarianism – and fears Western democracies are repeating the mistakes Europe once paid for in blood. “I feel like a canary in the coal mine,” she said. “What my latest book, Liars’ Paradise, describes is the slow occupation of entire nations and deprivation of freedom, including America today.” Ms Fabian says her warning is grounded in lived experience – of how fear spreads, how people stop speaking up, and how democracies hollow out long before they collapse. It is a message shaped by a lifetime under tyranny – and one she believes Britain should take seriously. Ms Fabian is the mother of world-renowned eye surgeon Professor Dan Reinstein, whose London practice has treated figures including former Prime Minister Boris …