Sad news indeed.

Remember: it didn’t start with gas chambers.

It started with one party controlling the media.
One party deciding what is truth.
One party censoring speech and silencing opposition.
One party dividing citizens in “us” and “them”
and calling on their supporters to harass “them”.

It started when good people turned a blind eye and let it happen.

How was that possible back then?

People may make very different, grim predictions about Germany, but no matter what color a future government may be, the country will never become National Socialist again. Nevertheless, Nazi and fascist insults are currently being thrown around in an inflated manner, and their authors clearly have neither basic knowledge of history nor respect for the people who suffered or died in Nazi Germany.

The paradox is that these insults come primarily from people who today support the same methods used by the Nazis. So when someone points at you and calls you a Nazi, they are also pointing three fingers at themselves.

What kind of methods or procedures are these? The Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC and the Auschwitz Museum in Poland have a list of these milestones on the road to hell. What is the current government's position on this? Are they doing everything they can to avoid such actions?

Remember: It didn't start with the gas chambers. It started with... ...the government controlling the media.

The investigation into the Fukushima accident by the "United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation", or UNSCEAR for short, came to the following conclusion back in 2013: "No radiation-related deaths or acute illnesses were found among workers and the public who were exposed to radiation from the Fukushima accident." Compare that with the information on German television or government statements that, years later, still talk of 18,000 radiation deaths from the reactor accident in order to justify Merkel's nuclear phase-out.

...that the government decided what was true.

In March 2020, the Robert Koch Institute, at the behest of the government, escalated the risk of corona from "moderate" to "high" contrary to scientific evidence. Anyone who doubted this "truth" was persecuted as a "corona denier". This enabled the government to implement extreme freedom-restricting measures against citizens.

...that the government censored freedom of speech and silenced the opposition.

Lateral thinker and corona critic Michael Ballweg was arrested on the basis of fabricated allegations and spent nine months in solitary confinement in Stuttgart-Stammheim for "investigation". In fact, they wanted to silence him for nine months. "Punish one, educate hundreds."

...that the government divided citizens into "us" and "them."

The Federal President, the representative of all Germans, implemented this division by introducing "our democracy" and excluding citizens critical of the government from it. In parliament, the division into "us" and "them" is practiced through the firewall. There is even talk of banning this party behind the firewall, as happened with the SPD in 1933.

...and calling on its supporters to harass "them".

For example, guests who have already checked in are thrown out of the hotel because they are AfD members, or media critical of the government, such as "Kontrafunk", have their accounts at Volksbank blocked, or a party is made to live difficult. (see picture: the police have the same goal as demonstrators, namely to violently prevent the meeting of a democratically elected party).

It started with good people looking the other way and allowing it to happen.

Decision-makers, including decision-makers in institutions responsible for culture and civilization in Germany, have submitted to politics out of opportunism. This applies to universities, industry and especially to the judiciary and the churches. In many institutions today, amateurs and opportunists have a free hand.

Conclusion: In a decade or two, people will ask themselves: “How was it possible back then that the economy was deliberately ruined, that German women, children and men were murdered by Muslims on a weekly basis?” Children will ask their parents: “What did you do about it back then?”

What will you answer then, dear Germans?


https://think-again.org/wie-war-das-moglich/

And here is a translated transcript of the video i linked three posts above. The speaker is former German federal president Joachim Gauck:

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Firstly, Lenin taught that once you have power, you never give it up again. Secondly, to achieve this, abolish the rule of law and make the law subdued, the law as an aid to power. Thirdly, do not allow a critical public, free speech and the free media and free research. This must be toned down and must be unanimous. Fourthly, do not give those who fight for their rights, for example as employees, an independent fighting organization, but rather give teeth to the trade union movement, make it an organ of state power or the interests of the state. Fifthly, if that is not enough, a system that is always ready to spread fear on a large scale. To do this, you need a fear machine, a secret service that is supposed to make people afraid.
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Sounds all too familiar for practically every Western country I can think of, including Germany and both the Democrats' or Trumps' idea for the US.

When studying the nazis in Germany one have to go further back than 1920's

This is how I see it. I say the problem started at the construction of Germany 1871, if not earlier.

Markus

Are we witnessing the beginning of the collapse of EU ?

Markus

That would be a crisis, but I like what they say about the Chinese sign for "crisis", it consists actually of two signs, the one meaning "danger", and the other "turning point" or "change".



I think Europe has no other chance anyway, it must accept the risks involved of tearing down the EU, else it cannot replace it with somethig better. Leaving the EU moving into the direction it wants to move at, to me is the utmost worst case scenario and totally unacceptable. I do not believe in the reformability of the EU. It has to go.



Anmd yes, that means a very dangerous phase of shift and change, and expsoition to risks for arboad and instablity within. Success is not certain. Not even survival. But thigns have degenerated so far that evertyhign appears to be better to me than just letting the EU have its way.



Its like maintenance on a flying airplane, where maintenance means to replace the whole airframe, and in midair. We should not complain, we let it degenerate this far indifferently. Now we pay for that. Our own fault.

Bullsh!t. As much as I want to keep one or two nuclear facilites running to study and testing, they did not produce enough energy, and the energy produced by them was so expensive that it had to be subsidized all the time, just like in France, or the US.
Just like developing new arms, or reach space.
France will see what nuclear energy really costs when it comes to overhaul or dismantle them.

B.t.w. one of all those lies is that electricity costs much in Germany, but in fact it is at place #9 worldwide, or #5 depending on where you look.

After all you can say about Habeck what you want but having the farsight to make Germany independent from energy imports is a 'good idea' to say at least. That Ukraine and Trump happened in the transition makes it difficult, but this only shows that it is absolutely necessary.
Also just of all the greens are the only party that made a clear statement to help Ukraine with weapons and support without "if and but".

AfD lies, I wonder where those people get their info, or better who pays them to spread the lies.

I wouldn't wish the energy prices we currently pay in the UK on anyone.

^ roughly the same as here. But we buy energy from France, which is cheaper there - again only because their nuclear energy is heavily subsidised by the state. There will be a rough awakening for the common french people.
If you want to have nuclear arms and nuke subs you of course have to have nuclear power plants. Unless you want to buy the stuff from the US, France or Russia.

Quatsch, Kai.

In the United States, electricity prices vary significantly by state. The national net average for private household electricity in 2023 was about 15.5 cents per kWh. In 2024 it was about 16.83 cents per kWh.The most expensive tariff with 34 cents was in Hawai, according to this link: The Sun

The current average electricity net price in Germany for private households in 2024 has fallen by 11 percent or 4.81 ct/kWh compared to the previous year and now averages 40.92 ct/kWh (bdew.de).

I pay netto 40.xx ct/KWh here in Münster. Not too long ago it was just 24 cents per KWh.

Just two or three years ago a "Brötchen" (bread roll?) costed 22-25 cents in this town. Now it costs 56-59 cents.

Industry gives three reasons why they move out of Germany: overboarding bureaucracy, dramatically rising numbers of mini-blackouts that despite lasting just minutes cost extremely much money and do a lot of damage to machinery, and energy costs.

Increasingly the declining niveau (education and working morale) of the work force is entering the chorus of complaints, too. Bakers are especially energy-intensive. I can count their dying out every year, since years. We used ot have six bakers in a certain accessible radius around our home. Now its just two left. Both are struggling. All non-chain-backshop bakers do.

[Tichys Einblick] The CDU/CSU-Union is plummeting in the polls, the left-wing parties are gaining ground. At the moment it looks as if Friedrich Merz could screw up the election in the final stages. Suddenly even a red-red-red-green federal government is possible.

The Spiegel, co-financed by Bill Gates, has placed its investigative story against the opposition party. The election can't be far away. For a long time it looked as if Friedrich Merz would travel to the chancellery in a sleeper car. But in the final stages the Fritz train derailed. In a YouGov poll the Union slipped to 27 percent. And the CDU chairman is facing another scenario.

According to all polls Die Linke (the party of that name, Skybird, the former SED) is almost certain to be represented in the 21st Bundestag. But its split, the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, can still do it. Then a red-red-red-green coalition is within reach. According to YouGov these parties together would have 43 percent. The AfD and the Union would only have a blocking majority of 47 percent. A chancellorship supported by a "main thing is to be in power" left-wing alliance would therefore be entirely possible. In the East, the BSW has proven that it is prepared for such an all-party coalition.

It is also possible that Friedrich Merz will still screw up the election in terms of the result. Because two percent more for the left-wing alliance and two percent less for the AfD and the Union are quite possible. Election researchers are in great agreement that the number of undecided voters is higher than in almost any previous democratic election. Up to a third of those eligible to vote do not yet know who to vote for. It would look stupid to blame Friedrich Merz for all possible developments - but in terms of content it is unavoidable.

Merz is to blame for the fact that the AfD and the Union bloc will still give votes to the left-wing alliance. The AfD has no realistic option for governing, not least because Merz is not making the catastrophic economic situation or Germany's foreign and security policy helplessness the theme of his election campaign - but rather the prevention of the only party that is in opposition in all of Germany's state parliaments.

Merz is thus causing voters to be very determined - despite a federal government that has declared itself a failure. There is no mood for change in Germany because the only promising opponent to the red-red-red-green models does not stand for change.

He wants to work with as many red-green parties as necessary to get into the Chancellery. There, Merz then promises, as Chancellor he will steadfastly enforce a non-left policy against his left-wing coalition partners. Given his spinelessness to date, this is such a ridiculous promise that one catches one's breath at the necessary laughter at Friedrich Merz.

Like Angela Merkel (CDU) before him, Friedrich Merz is thus making left-wing politics "without alternative". Some voters see the failure of the red-green policy, but accept this supposed lack of alternatives as a given and decide in the final stages to vote for parties from the red-green bloc. Germans fear change, "German Angst" has become a popular phrase internationally. A leading opposition candidate who, like Merz, represents a lack of courage, reinforces this German Angst and the forces of inertia in society, from which left-wing parties in particular benefit.

Added to this is his appearance in the various duels, quadrelles and pippinelles. Commentators from state and state-affiliated media have attested that Merz acted as confidently as a statesman and thus became the winner of the disputes. This should have set off a warning bell for the Union. What the commentators in question meant was that Merz was humbly enough to throw himself in the dust in front of their Gessler hat and to invoke the joint "firewall" against the AfD.

But Merz was not actually a winner of the duels. The stiff Sauerlander has never seemed likeable. That was one reason why he had to sit out "Mutti" and her supporters on the bench for 20 years. Instead of betting on his nonexistent charisma, Merz bet that the CDU and Germany would implode so much during his years on the bench that they would even accept him as leader afterwards. The CDU was desperate enough, but Germany is reconsidering in the final days before the election. Merz's sleeping car does not automatically stop at the Chancellery. It looked as if no one could mess up such a large lead against such a weak opponent - but Merz could at least make that possible.
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The Germans will get what they deserve. They let it happen to them, so I don't see why they should deserve better.

I post the link to the original German (=Swiss) site, not a Google translated link, since this so often does not work with the NZZ anyway. The illustrations in the text are too relevant, it makes no sense to just post the translated text as an excerpt.

https://www.nzz.ch/visuals/wahl-2025...csu-ld.1870976

It turns out that the CDU/CSU Union actually has the most views in common with the AfD on various political issues, even more so than with the FDP, which in any case poses as something it is not and probably never was: libertarian.

"So when Friedrich Merz claims that the CDU/CSU is “further apart with the AfD than with any other party”, this may be true with regard to the firewall, but this does not correspond to the facts in view of their election programs. In terms of content, the CDU/CSU could implement most of its promises with the party to its right."

If the Union's self-mutilation policy continues, the next German government with CDU participation will be just as horrendous as the current one. There is also a mathematical possibility that the red-red-red-green bloc beyond the CDU and AfD could achieve a majority. That would be the premature technical knockout for Germany.


I have considered going to the polls for the first time ever in my life and voting AfD just to see them act as a wrecking ball (certainly not because I think they are so great). And the many murders and attempted murders that African and Islamic migrants now routinely commit on German streets seem to make this an additional moral imperative, but I have decided against it and decided to remain true to my principle of not legitimizing this caste of politicians who run amok. My disgust for this bunch of bigwigs is simply too great. And so far I always have regretted every sinmgle time I have violated my principle of never giving politicians the benefit of the doubt.

You simply must not legitimize this bunch to exercise power. You must not. THAT is the moral imperative in this situation. You are guilty if you do it. You make yourself an accomplice. You know it in advance. You forfeit the right to criticize - because you help to realize and legitimize what you then want to criticize. You must not do this.

Wahlen, ohne die Wahl zwischen Alternativen zu haben. Elections without being able to chose between alternatives, that means. What a waste of time. The future ticks left. Left, and nothing but left. At least as long as the firewall stands. No matter which party you vote, the resulting policy-making will be far left leaning always: reddish-greenly-woke-left.

We have had such a farce of democracy in the past. It was called GDR Volkskammer.

CDU and CSU don't want to cooperate with the far right, AfD in the Bundestag. How is it when it comes parties on the far left ? No problems here or is it the same ? No cooperation.

Markus

Markus, the CDU/CSU will turn the colour of the coalition party that they need to get Merz into the chancellor'S office. And that coalition partner will demand a high price for that. And the CDU/CSU will be happy to pay it. And then turn its coats. They have plenty of experience with this manouver...

The Merkel paradigm, you know: never let principles get between you and the seat of power. Opportunism as the fundament of state reason.

Merkel was the first female left green chancelor in Germany. :03: