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President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz participate in a joint press conference Monday, February 7, 2022, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

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This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here.

BERLIN— I return briefly to those singular moments when Olaf Scholz stood next to President Joe Biden at a press conference on Feb. 7, 2022, after concluding private talks in the Oval Office. This was the occasion when Biden declared that if Russian forces entered Ukrainian territory—as he was by this time confident they would have no choice but to do—“then there will no longer be a Nord Stream II. We will bring an end to it.”

Take a moment to view the video record of this event. What do we see in those two men? Let us consider their demeanor, their gestures, their facial expressions, what each said and left unsaid, and read what we can into them. I read a 77–year history.

In Biden we have a man calmly matter-of-fact as he states his intention to destroy the expensive industrial assets of the country represented by the man next to him. We note his perfect aplomb, the dismissive wave of his hand, as he puts on full display his indifference to a close ally’s interests and, indeed, sovereignty.

I have until recently attributed Biden’s astounding coarseness as he stands with Scholz to the gracelessness that has marked the whole of his, Biden’s, political career. But I reflect now, as I think of this occasion in the light of all that preceded it, there is another way to judge it: After decades of overweening dominance within the Atlantic alliance, Biden saw no need any longer to disguise America’s hegemonic prerogative. Indeed, in the C–SPAN recording linked above we see the face of a man who takes malign pride in this exercise of raw power.

For his part, Scholz stood at a separate lectern, per protocol, and said nothing in response to Biden’s remark. His demeanor, Scholz’s, indicates he was neither surprised nor angry. He seems, rather, resigned, apprehensive, faintly regretful, faintly submissive. In his face we read the apprehension of a soldier who has just accepted his commanding officer’s baleful battle plan. My guess is he was also wondering what in hell he would say to his government and to Germans on his return to Berlin.

The best way to understand this very pregnant occasion, which has to count as unique or very nearly in the annals of trans–Atlantic diplomacy, is to look backward and then forward from it.

What a long span of time lay between the Germany of the early 1980s, Helmut Schmidt’s Germany, and Olaf Scholz’s Germany, the Germany that fairly cowered as it stood on a dais with America 40 years later. Schmidt, a Social Democrat given to Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, had stood with other Europeans to defend Germany’s interests against President Ronald Reagan’s blunt attempts to impose America’s Cold War disciplines. Scholz, a Social Democrat of a very different kind, was not inclined to defend Germany against Joe Biden even when its very sovereignty was at issue.

How did Germany come to this? I grew convinced, after some days’ reporting here, a city the Iron Curtain long divided, and more time elsewhere in Germany, that Cold War and post–Cold War politics do not of themselves give an answer to this question. No, as I found often during my decades as a correspondent, one must resort to psychology and culture fully to understand politics and history, the latter being in some measure expressions of the former.

The Allies’ plans for the nations they vanquished in 1945, which in a brief time amounted to America’s plans, were never short of ambition. At the Potsdam Conference, a few months after the fall of the Reich, Churchill, Truman, and Stalin divided Germany into four occupation zones: Britain, France, the U.S., and the Soviet Union would administer one each. Berlin was in the Soviet zone but was similarly divided. Millions of German settlers had to be repatriated from lands the Nazis had conquered—a messy undertaking marked by never-now-mentioned suffering. A de–Nazification program began immediately, and the German military was to be dismantled, although both of these objectives were complicated, to put the point mildly, as the wartime alliance with Moscow gave way to the Cold War the Truman administration insisted on provoking.

But it was in the matter of German hearts and minds that the remaking of the Reich into another kind of country tilted from ambition in the direction of hubris. This was a psychological operation the sweep and magnitude of which may never since have been matched. Only the post–1945 Japanese have undergone anything similar to it. This project was at first shaped and executed by Rooseveltian New Dealers. It was a year or two before Cold War ideologues dispensed with the high ideals in favor of the rigors of late–1940s, early–1950s anti–Communism. The Japanese, not without a subdued bitterness, call this “the reverse course.”

I do not know what the Germans call it, but the postwar volte-face amounted to the same thing. The project was the same across both oceans. It was not to engender authentic experiments in democracy, bottom-up attempts, as the orthodox historians advertise this period. It was to enlist Germany and Japan as Cold War soldiers. Democratization became mere pretext, inasmuch as democracy by its very definition can be neither exported by any country nor imported by any other. In this way, I may as well add, these two nations were the templates Washington applied in many other places during the Cold War. Pretend to democratize, cultivate submission: This was the true postwar project.

To put this point another way, to the extent Germany and Japan made themselves democracies in the postwar decades, this was not because of America’s influence so much as in spite of it.

ORDER IT NOW

In the U.S. zone, administrators in and out of uniform assumed control of all forms of information. All newspapers, magazines, and radio broadcasters were shut down. American journalists (some of whom went on to illustrious careers) were assigned to reinvent German media to suit what was to be a new democracy. The propaganda programs accompanying this reinvention of mass media, in time heavy with anti–Soviet messaging, were immense, extending from reeducation projects and radio talk shows down to mass-distributed leaflets. The literature about this period gives the impression of an undertaking that excluded no uttered or written word and no image from official scrutiny.

A brief digression.

One of the memorable television programs of my early childhood was a popular law-and-order serial called Highway Patrol. I remember it well even after many years. There was something charismatic about the weekly episodes and their star. Broderick Crawford was the jowly, gruff, sloppily dressed chief of police in a never-named California town. He would sweep into crime scenes and fling open his patrol car’s door amid sirens and clouds of dust, barking orders into his hand-held radio—famously responding to his officers with the unforgettable “10–4.”

Highway Patrol ran for 156 episodes, 1955 to 1959. On the face of it the series was a glorification of official authority. It was about the need to maintain order amid constant threats to it. But, text and subtext, Highway Patrol was about postwar America; each installment was a reiteration of what it meant to be American during those years. The Cold War was never once mentioned, but the Cold War seemed to hover in every one of those episodes. Among the programs running themes were the ever-presence of fear and the necessity of allegiance.

I mention this because of something I learned many years later. It is amusing and highly instructive all at once. Highway Patrol was developed by an ambitious production company called Ziv Television Programs. Frederick Ziv, founder and principal, more or less invented TV syndications (The Cisco Kid, Bat Masterson, etc.). Ziv’s productions, implicitly and occasionally explicitly, were given to anti–Communist atmospherics in Highway Patrol fashion. And after Ziv signed Broderick Crawford, in 1955, Highway Patrol was the first American series to be broadcast on Germany’s new commercial television network.

To finish my point, how odd now to think that German families sitting in front of their televisions a decade after their terrible defeat in a world-historical war could watch the same cops-and-criminals drama that resonated with a young boy before his screen in a leafy suburb of New York.

Highway Patrol is a small example of another dimension of the postwar project in Germany: It was an early case of what we now call soft power. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this assertion of American influence in postwar Germany or its consequences ever since. If occupation administrators controlled what Germans thought by way of their information and propaganda operations, importations of American cultural artifacts—films, music, food, social mores, and so on—came to control how Germans thought: how they thought about the world and about themselves.

The power of soft power, if I can put the point awkwardly, was more obvious in Japan at this time because the Occupation amounted to a confrontation between two different civilizations. From the Americans the Japanese learned billiards, ballroom dancing, big band jazz, Walt Disney movies, how to mix Martinis, how to carry themselves with the nonchalance of Americans. It was just this way in Germany but in a less abrupt fashion. Postwar Germans discovered blue jeans, hamburgers, Bill Haley and His Comets, John Wayne, how to drink Coca–Cola, and who can count how many other things.

If I were to capture the essence of the postwar project in Germany, I would say its enduring outcome has been a remade consciousness. As a German-speaking Swiss friend put it the other day, “Germans, more than any other Europeans and first among them, learned to speak the language of the victor.” This brings me to a fateful error meriting brief explication.

To take one step back, among the prevailing orthodoxies of the Cold War decades was called in the academy “modernization theory.” In a single phrase this held that modernization required Westernization. They came to the same thing, supposedly. For all those newly independent nations in what we call the Global South, if they wanted to make themselves modern they would have to follow the Westerners. In view of its countless consequences, all of them destructive, I consider this among the worst mistakes of the past eight decades. Only now are non–Western nations learning that becoming truly modern begins with becoming truly themselves.

Germany made a roughly parallel mistake after its defeat in 1945. To advance beyond the disaster of the First World War and the barbarities that led to the Second meant becoming thoroughly modern at last. It meant to democratize. And to democratize meant to Americanize. You can count on the Americans to foist this harmful fallacy on the world: They have been doing so, I would say, since the Wilsonians of the early 20th century. I do not wish to simplify the case, but this is at least approximately the trap into which postwar Germany fell.

As various German friends have remarked in conversation these past months, setting out to change the consciousness of a nation is, beyond the implicit hubris, a profoundly fraught endeavor. It is to tamper with a people’s very identity, their most basic understanding of who they are. The danger of a collective psychological unmooring of this kind—especially among people burdened with guilt due to their prewar and wartime conduct—is to me obvious. In the cases of Germany and Japan alike, the circumstances of the postwar world seem to me to have defined the results. To go from defeat to the imperatives of the victor’s Cold War ideology was bound to produce, across both oceans, what I have for a long time called cultures of submission.

When the Iron Curtain bisected Germany in 1949 and as Americans directed the nation’s reconstruction, I mean to suggest, it was a kind of mutilation—on maps, but also in psyches. And neither Germany nor its people has yet recovered from this disturbance, as I think of it. This is to state what is bound to be evident to anyone who pays attention while walking to and fro in it. Germany has not been itself this past three-quarters of a century; Germans are, in psychological terms, in some measure separated from themselves, untethered. It is a peculiar condition for a people who have always seemed to me of strong character.

Something Oscar Wilde observed long ago comes to mind—oddly, but not so oddly as all that. “Most people are other people,” Wilde wrote in De Profundis, the famous tract he composed while serving time in Reading Gaol. Wilde had very different matters on his mind, to put it too mildly, but this remarkable pensée seems to me perfectly to the point as we think of postwar Germans. “Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,” the passage continues, “their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

I think of this passage when I think back to Olaf Scholz as he stood in dull silence three years ago while the American president announced to the world he was about to abuse and humiliate Scholz all at once, giving not a thought to either. Who was Scholz in those moments? It is odd to consider the most persuasive answer may be, “Nobody.” There on the dais, nominally an equal but obviously otherwise, Scholz was the post–1945 culture of submission made flesh. To me he called to mind every Japanese premier who has paid a state visit to Washington since the Occupation ended in 1952: Like Scholz, they have all come to submit, leaving who they truly are at home.

Among the few bright spots one detects in Germany today—here in Berlin, but more pronouncedly, I would say, in the villages and towns east of here in the former German German Republic—is the faint but detectable prospect that Germany and its people may in time find their way back to themselves. “We’re all looking for our country,” Dirk Pohlmann, the journalist and documentarian, said as we concluded our morning together in Potsdam late last autumn. It seemed the thing he wanted me most to see.

(Republished from Scheerpost by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. If there is hope in Germany, it lies probably in the east.

  2. SteveK9 says:

    The Jews declared war on Germany, … and they won.

  3. Anonymous[420] • Disclaimer says:

    Sadly, “looking for our country” gives me a sour, cheesy aftertaste of Simon & Garfunkel’s 🎵 We’ve all gone to look for Amer-i-ca, 🎵. Which back in the good old days in the 70s I thought, What a stupid fucking song, fuck America, go see something interesting.

    That’s where Germans need to get, away from synthetic centrally-manipulated CIA culture to something spontaneous.

    • Replies: @Liosnagcat
    , @chris
  4. Gerhard Schroeder was the last leader who you could consider to not be submissive. These dissident parties in Europe just seem so sluggish and frankly too little too late.

    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Commentator Mike
  5. Olaf Scholz will go down in infamy as the man who destroyed Germany a third time, and maybe for good. It will be an epitaph unworthy for such a non entity.

    This is the problem in Germany, no men, Germany needs a Bismarck so badly, when France lacked a man they produce a Joan of Arc.

    Germany needs something soon to fight for their existence, a rape epidemic, stabbings, industrial sabotage, will a real German please stand up?

    Or will Germans continue to slink around, head bowed with tail between their legs like an egg sucking dog? Or grab themselves their backpacks and go on another jaunt to forget about what it is to be a defeated people only to be asked constantly “are you German?”

    Germans cannot be a people again until they rid themselves of the occupier, now is a great opportunity with Trump in the Whitehouse, Japan is also at this crossroad. Its time for the Germans to throw off their inner Patty Hearst and forge a new future, failure to do so is a failure as a people.

    • Agree: JR Foley
  6. HT says:
    @SteveK9

    America and England now getting their rewards for causing that to happen.

  7. anon[655] • Disclaimer says:

    It would have been appropriate to mention the biggest justice travesty of the modern era in Germany (that is the era after Nazism and the Stasi DDR):

    The ordeal of lawyer Reiner Fuellmich and his recent condemnation of ac rime he didn’t commit through a mock trial with invented charges in the kangaroo court of Gottingen.

    Reiner Fuellmich was set up by German Secret Police on instructions from the German government – charges were manufactured and he has been persecuted by politicians
    https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmich-was-set-up-by-german

    Reiner Fuellmich A Political Prisoner Part 2 Courtroom showdown
    https://bam.news/societe/investigation/reiner-fuellmich-a-political-prisoner-part-2-courtroom-showdown

    MORE ON REINER AND HIS SENTENCING. LAUFPASS ANALYSIS BEFORE THE SENTENCING, JUST AFTER, PLUS EXCELLENT LAUFPASS ANALYSIS.
    https://truthsummit.substack.com/p/more-on-reiner-and-his-sentencing

    This Stalin style trial of a political prisoner illustrates perfectly what Germany has become and the totalitarian police state it is now.

    • Thanks: nosquat loquat
    • Replies: @AlmaMater
  8. Chaskinss says:

    It is not a sovereign “country”-it is a US empire vassal colony occupied by US military.

    • Replies: @Twin Ruler
  9. SteveK9 says:
    @Pythas

    You think it makes me happy? Haven’t been a ‘boy’ for 60 years.

    • Replies: @JesusWasAGayJew
  10. The conquest of Germany was long the goal of both London and Moscow. Then as now, control of Germany meant control of Europe. London had a carefully constructed continental ally in France, and had no wish to see its junior partner overshadowed by an independent, sovereign power it couldn’t control. Virtually as soon as he succeeded Lenin, Stalin spoke again and again in the Politburo of the necessity of securing Germany as the springboard from which to launch the invasion of Europe and England, thus bringing Marx’s “final republic” one giant step closer to fruition. Hitler was a brilliant man who clearly saw the big picture, that it was imperative for Europe to quickly unite into a defensible entity capable of surviving these twin existential challenges.

    Now we are seeing in the Ukraine War an almost carbon copy of how London used the nationalist fanatics in Warsaw to work against their state’s best interests, in order to trigger regime change war in the real opponent. With this in mind it’s not hard to detect the hand of FDR behind the scenes in WW2 and its buildup, sabotaging every attempt of the peoples of the Old World to work out their own destiny peacefully. One more prolonged, devastating war and Europe would be over as a world power. Then the US could finally take England’s place as master of the world, just as some of the Founders had dreamed so many years before. This is the next logical foreign policy goal, after the US had successfully overthrown or subverted every republic in the western hemisphere and had established strategic supply stations for its war fleets in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

    • Replies: @Annacath
    , @Lucius Somesuch
  11. Eric135 says:

    Highway Patrol is one of my favorite television series. Virtually all the cops and criminals are white – so quaint. You can see it on YouTube.

    I don’t see this show as having a bad effect on Germany. On the contrary, the show is about policing the way it should be. The good guys are good, and the bad guys are bad.

    It is not like TV today – a disgusting propaganda medium that promotes the bad and denigrates the good.

    That being said, the Germans need to shake off the U.S., and the U.S. needs to shake off the Jews and their minions.

    Will this ever happen? I don’t know.

    If it does, it won’t be during my lifetime.

    • Replies: @Dutch Boy
  12. Emslander says:

    Facile, adolescent psychobabble.

  13. Anon[989] • Disclaimer says:

    Thanks for reminding us, Anon 655. Reiner’s Stalinist show trial is the clearest indication of end-stage NATO legitimacy collapse. I hope he submits a complaint to the Human Rights Council. The US left in a huff so they can’t try to shut the members up.

    The crime against humanity that Reiner denounced could trigger die Abwicklung for the Western bloc. Medical experimentation that would scare Doktor Mengele, by CIA, to conceal their aggression by banned biological weapons.

  14. AlmaMater says:
    @anon

    Reiner Fuellmich is an example of why it is so incredibly dangerous to be a “real” German or a “real” British person these days. Their governments have so thoroughly turned on the citizens. Against anyone who dares to raise his voice, the lawfare is diabolical. It’s grievous.

    So many minions and so few real leaders willing to lead for the sake of the nation and its people.

    • Agree: Gott mit UNZ
  15. This is a very good, thoughtful series by Lawrence, but I take issue with this one sentence: “Millions of German settlers had to be repatriated from lands the Nazis had conquered—a messy undertaking marked by never-now-mentioned suffering.”

    Many of these “settlers” had been in those countries for countless generations, indeed some since the Middle Ages. I’m unaware of how many new “settlers” the Nazi conquests brought with them, but I sincerely doubt they outnumbered these much older German communities. And yet they were all forced to leave, in part, no doubt, because most of them had supported the new, invading German conquerors and were thereafter viewed with mistrust and hostility by the host countries.

    Still, any forced removal of an ancestrally established population is cruel and inhumane.

    Germany, before unification in the 19th century, had been an empire for a good thousand years, and imperial rule often leads to mixed populations. The German populations of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Poland and other eastern European countries were as much a part of those lands’ histories as anything else.

    But the Murrikins have long been in the business of trying to rewrite history.

    • Agree: for-the-record
    • Replies: @Miro23
  16. Annacath says: • Website
    @Observator

    You nailed it, Observator! Thanks.

  17. Charles says:

    I cannot say I read the essay word-for-word; I apologize if this is a redundancy.

    Even during the war – the one fought by Aryan cannon fodder for the sake of the Jews – the Germans believed their opponents were essentially honorable men like themselves. Witness the actions of Franz Stigler, a man for whom battlefield honor (in this case, in the skies) was inseparable from his personal identity.

    At Nuremberg (and in many lesser-known examples), however, the Germans learned that American and British “honor”- as expressed by the representatives of those countries – was a fiction. Never had civilized men, in the flush of victory, conducted show-trials against defeated adversaries. The actions of enraged men in combat are one thing; the actions of robed judges, claiming pseudo-legal rights which they themselves created in defiance of previous standards, is quite another.

    The Germans learned all too well that with their defeat, the Jewish control of the West was complete. Any future in which Whites can have a significant presence depends first upon Whites grasping that fact.

  18. Anonymous[130] • Disclaimer says:

    nosquat loquat, right again. The genocide against ethnic Germans was the real genocide of WWII. Alfred de Zayas did rigorous work on that grave crime.

  19. Oh, come on, Patrick! The post-war (((American))) occupation régime hardly introduced anti-communism to the Germans. Hitler had always denounced communism, even when though he occasionally collaborated with communists himself. During year and half while the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was still in effect, for example, the KPD was illegal in Germany. And then you have the fact that in 1945, the Germans had just fought a grueling, brutal four-year long war against Bolshevism on the Eastern Front. What would be more natural for a German at that point than hardcore anti-Communism?

    No, the poison that the (((American))) occupation régime first introduced into the (West-)German body politic in 1945 was not anti-Communism; rather, it wasthe the lie of the ‘holocaust’ and the prevalence of Antideutsch-ideology among the intelligentsia. It was the (((American))) occupation régime that initiated the project of conditioning Germans to finally accept the ‘collective guild’ narrative, against which they had unsuccessfully rebelled after the First World War by backing Hitler. Within a generation, this would quickly spiral into the wackiness of the ‘Red Army Faction’ (possibly itself a GLADIO-front), which seems to have inspired so many of the Boomer-politicians in contemporary west Germany … such as Scholz.

  20. My mother was a Jew from the Bronx who married a Lutheran German… who moved to the U.S. from Germany… in his early twenties to get a master’s degree in mining engineering at the Univ. of Utah… where he met my mother who was working on a PHD in biology… in the mid-50s… among the small-city still-isolated Mormon pioneers. My two brothers and I… each a year apart raised in Denver Colorado… grew up traveling every two years… from when we were infants through our college years… to both New York City and Neunkirchen Saarland (south Germany on French border)… to visit both families.

    Beginning in the early 60s through the 70s and 80s we three brothers experienced the post-war NYC Jewish culture (grandparents owned a photo-printing business) and the still-rubble-strewn German culture (grandparents owned a corner bakery). I could probably write a book with dozens of examples comparing and contrasting my perceptions of the cultural differences.

    Bottom line…

    1) From the very beginning (certainly by 6yrs old?) I grew to deeply despise (hate?) the NYC Jews who were clearly mean/evil spirited… they lectured to us young boys things like… “Take or Be Taken… Kill or Be Killed”… which, by the time I was 10yrs old, I argued with my mother was clearly the philosophy of a totally “evil” and “uncivilized” people. It was a nightmare in NYC… everything was so hateful and miserable… and “uncivilized”.

    2) I couldn’t have felt more deep love and care for my German family… who were so civilized, caring and dignified… when we ate meals together and took long walks together through the beautiful forests picking berries and mushrooms… swimming at the fancy pools with 10m platform diving boards and all the lakes and rivers. It was a dream in Germany… everything was so happy and cheerful… and “civilized”.

    The main reason I’m writing this comment is not so much because of this article (which was very good… thank you)… but because what I watched yesterday… Tucker Carlson interviewing a Jew from the Bronx… George Friedman… who is older than me but younger than my mother…

    https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-george-friedman

    Wow… I don’t think I could describe the DEEP hatred I felt watching this bullshitter do his NYC Jew bullshit… I was punching my hand over and over again… I’m having a difficult time playing my guitar afterward. If there was anything I would wish for… it would be that ALL people could see and understand the evil that people like George Friedman represent. Shame on you Tucker Carlson for giving time to such evil.

  21. Charles says:
    @Steve in Dallas

    The mind-set of an alien culture is baffling to those outside it, and you make an important point. If I had been told from infancy some preposterous and provable lie, or series of lies, I would believe it, particularly if it had been stressed to me that those falsehoods were part-and-parcel of my racial identity. The “Holocaust”, as presented in media, is demonstrably false, but what Jew growing up with it would disbelieve it, or could disbelieve it? “Proving a negative” may be impossible, but the proofs against the claims of the “Holocaust” are overwhelming. Our host, Mr. Unz, has made available here on TUR the book The Hoax of the 20th Century. It is an excellent investment of your time.

    • Agree: Annacath
  22. ANON[149] • Disclaimer says:

    Not a WORD about the Jews that dictated German policy since 1945.

    • Agree: Gott mit UNZ
  23. anarchyst says:

    Germany has been saddled with its own “Stockholm Syndrome” ever since the summation of the Second World War.
    There are some brave Germans who have gone against the “official narrative” of WW2 with Germany seen as being on “the wrong side of history” and as such are (still) considered to be “the bad guys”, but they are either too few or afraid of being “outed” as “holocaust™ deniers”, subject to severe punishment, and yes, Nazis (which is unfairly still a pejorative term in Germany and in much of the rest of the civilized world).

    [MORE]

    This is especially bolstered by the (in)famous “jewish holocaust™” which was created by the Allies in order to keep Germany permanently demonized.
    Hollywood movie producers were dispatched to the “camps” to “prove” that Germany was guilty of genocide (which was not the case as the victims who were filmed perished from typhus due to infrastructure collapse), not in “death camps”. These Hollywood producers should have been taken to Dresden and other real genocide areas.
    In fact, it was Russian jews who “rebuilt” Auschwitz after the war in its own propagandistic way, creating and amplifying engineering errors that the Germans would have never done.
    From non-sealed “gas chambers” with wooden doors that “swing the wrong way” to no means for inserting and ventilating the poison gases, using a delousing agent as an ineffective “poison gas”, anyone with an engineering background can easily poke holes in all of the claims made by holocaust™ promoters.
    Let’s not forget that jewish “holocaustianity™” has been deemed to be a state religion in many countries from which no deviation of belief is permitted.
    Prosecution, fines and imprisonment await those who seek the truth about this false, contrived event in history.
    Even Canada has criminalized any criticism of this “event”.
    Recently, Florida Governor DeSantis traveled to israel where he signed legislation to outlaw and prosecute (certain) “hate speech”. He signed this legislation while in israel and made it known that it was to outlaw criticism of the “holocaust™”. Now, who does DeSantis work for?
    It is only a matter of time before “holocaustianity™” becomes the “official state religion” here in the USA.
    If the “holocaust™” is based on “truth” why not encourage a full impartial investigation into this “event”? What are “holocaust™” promoters afraid of?
    Jews have always been excellent propaganda agents, tugging at heartstrings by always showing jews as being “downtrodden” victims and always being marginalized and victimized. This is a “feature” and not a “bug” as it has been successful in keeping the holocaust™ fable alive to the present day.
    Jewish “holocaust™ museums” (actually jewish freak shows) display piles of shoes, glasses, clothing, and other piles of “who knows what” in order to claim that 6,000,000 jews were “gassed out of existence”.
    These jewish freaks shows get massive amounts of taxpayer-funded dollars despite being totally out of place in American society. Schoolchildren are brainwashed and propagandized in these freak shows, which is actually child abuse to allow children into these jewish freak shows.
    Florida Governor DeSantis mandated that ALL Florida school children will visit these “holocaust™ museums” (jewish freak shows) under penalty of law. Gotta keep the fraud alive.
    It could be safely argued that even Americans have been unwitting victims of “Stockholm Syndrome” especially when it comes to “all things holocaust™”.
    It is long overdue to conduct a full, impartial, honest of all holocaust™ claims and to “let the chips fall where they may” and finally expose it as the fraud that it is.
    This is the only way out of the Stockholm Syndrome for Germany, the USA and the rest of the world.
    The only way for the Germans to “wake up” is to throw off the jewish / American boot heels, get out of NATO and restore their long-deserved honor by getting rid of the foreign influences that still rules German society. German pride was outlawed with the summation of WW2 on terms imposed by the “allies”. It’s been long overdue to “let Germany be Germany”, unfettered by outside forces.
    There are those who miss the mark by comparing Germany to Japan.
    Japan never got the “treatment” that was imposed on the German people.
    It would appear that Theodore N. Kaufman’s vile tome “Germany Must Perish” was at least partially used on the German people in order to “neuter” the German citizenry and their country.
    Hell, Japan even got to keep its “emperor”.
    It is said that technology advances greatly during wartime, gruesome experiments taking place that would not be allowed or considered during peacetime. Japan’s unit 731 conducted much more horrific experiments than any other country, Germany included but was never brought to task. Even Americans conducted gruesome experiments during the war.
    In fact, medical types from around the world have obtained and reviewed the “results” of such experimentation.
    You see, in Japanese culture, those captured as the “enemy” were considered to be “less than human”, not unlike jewish supremacy which still reigns supreme in their jewish talmud.
    Germany was saddled with jewish holocaust lies about masturbation machines, electric floors, phony gas chambers, delousing agents used as “gas”, shrunken heads, fingers for light switches and jewish “soap”. These fabrications are still taken as “truth” despite such claims being laughable, totally ridiculous and impossible.
    Even the supposed “numbers” (6,000,000) don’t add up. The engineering claimed by holocaust promoters itself was impossible. Every holocaust claim can easily be debunked and shown to be a fabrication.
    That being said, Germany’s subservience is imposed by external forces. It is long overdue for Germany to be restored to its rightful place in the world of nations. Of course, the jews will never go along with it.
    There is one solution: A certain sh!tty little country in the middle east and its upcoming eastern European version 2.0 must be returned to their rightful inhabitants. I don’t care where the jews go…

    • Agree: AlmaMater, Gott mit UNZ
    • Replies: @turtle
  24. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    The strongest, most resolute, knowledgeable, and competent German politician is a gay woman who lives with female partner with two children. She has a backbone of titanium, and deconstructs her opponents with a gracious smile, and impeccable comportment. No Western politician and very few in the world can match her qualities of leadership.

    Video Link

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    She makes US senators and congressmen look like furtive dogs. This girl has grit, brains, and is famously resolute and unbending in her will toward what she believes in. She’s got electrolytes!

    AfD now Germany’s No. 1 party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQotfBVMd8
    Video Link

  25. @Poupon Marx

    The last thing Europe needs is yet more gay Zionists.

    • Agree: Gott mit UNZ
  26. @Digital Samizdat

    Obviously you have not delved into the subject matter and made yourself familiar with the person, her party, and the overall situation of Germany. That would involve effort, time, and concentration, which ideally would be attendant before making a such a remark and opinion as you have done.

    Her being gay intrinsically is irrelevant, but you evidently have no further knowledge or perception of her personage and life other than a casual glance out of a window of moving vehicle. Factually, she supports traditional man-woman definition of the sexes, is against special rights based on gender, anti-woke, closed borders, and mass deportation. She has promised to dismantle both the wind turbines and the solar arrays, granting them zero subsidies, and will commit to building atomic energy plants for Germany’s power. Her party will lower taxes for the middle class, re-introduce the Deutsche Mark, and restart Nord I & II. She is the German equivalent of Victor Orban and Robert Fico. There is hardly any difference between them.

    Besides being endorsed by Elon Musk and JD Vance, her party is “libertarian-conservative”, i.e., populist. She has committed to warmer relations-as before-with Russia, and I believe a role in BRICS.

    It this is Zionism to you, perhaps you should spent time more focused on intellectual and factual data and evidence gathering pursuits rather than video games and the spoats channel. Huh?

    • Disagree: chris
  27. @Poupon Marx

    I prefer Sahra Wagenknecht by several light years. This dyke will just become another Georgia Meloni, all talk, no action. Another tool of the lizard people.

    • Agree: chris
    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  28. Stogumber says:

    As a German, born 1952, I don’t agree with Mr. Lawrence.
    First, the Germans around 1940 appreciated Hitler as someone who had liberated them from the agony of the economical “depression”. But they had not expected to be involved in a World War, they were not much interested in conquering foreign countries, they resented the infinite constraints which
    aggravated everyday life and they started to understand that abolishing democracy had not been so great an idea. Also we must see that Americans represented a concept of democracy which was quite different from France: democracy not as a slippery slope into “progress” but as a real contest in which time and again also the opponents of “progress” could get the upper hand.
    And the war generation felt not much guilt (if at all, for having betrayed individual Jewish acquaintances). Notwithstanding they saw the Hitler era as an error and after-war Germany as an improvement.
    The problem lies with the younger generations. The so-called “second denazification” started after 1960 and hysterical anti-fascism had its first peak around 1970. It then got codified and routinized and will get more and more lame.

    • Thanks: eah, turtle, chris
    • Replies: @Linus
    , @HT
    , @Zumbuddi
  29. @nosquat loquat

    LOL. Sahra is one of my favorites, although her Leftism is a bit idealistic. Georgia is quite good, but she pales juxtaposed Weidel. Your reference to her as a “dyke”, says more about you and your limitations of experience and cognitive capability than it does Alice. Dyke is a pejorative term and could apply to a broad spectrum of gay women.

    Unlike the premature ejaculation of your comment, I have studied Weidel, the political situation in Germany, the AfD, its principals, and the likely results. The inescapable facts are that Alice’s qualifications are the highest intellectually and attainment in the private sector of any politician in the West. She was an economist working with international banking and financial companies, and spent 6 years working for the Bank of China, wrote her doctorate on the Chinese Pension System, and speaks fluent Chinese.

    I am disturbed when people make comments without any basis, facts, historical record, or any quality that might deemed intelligible and considered in scope. Yours fail all the criteria for being anything except random misfiring of a mal-attuned engine. Beyond the obvious, one should not comment or opine on a phenomenon that lacks foundation, fundamental knowledge and relevant facts.

    Your comment is stupid, and displays sloth and slobber. I have made it easy for lazy people like you, by posting many times her stellar attributes and historical performance. What’s wrong with you? If you don’t have the aptitude to meet the threshold here, you should decamp to the Kardashians’ websites.

  30. Dutch Boy says:
    @Eric135

    It was a great opportunity we missed in the 90s. I thought we should have taken our military out of Europe after my military service in Germany in the 70s. Eisenhower thought the same back in the early 50s: “As he assumed command of NATO forces in Europe in 1951, General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower uttered prophetic words of caution: “If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed.”

    • Thanks: Eric135
    • Replies: @Carlton Meyer
  31. @Dutch Boy

    I thought we should have taken our military out of Europe after my military service in Germany in the 70s. Eisenhower thought the same back in the early 50s: “As he assumed command of NATO forces in Europe in 1951, General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower uttered prophetic words of caution: “If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed.”

    Here is a short video about Ike’s views and that quote. Note this was produced in 2020, two years before Russia’s “unprovoked” intervention in eastern Ukraine.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  32. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Too late, Japan promotes niggatry fucking their women now. I’m not even against porn, but
    That’s beyond defeatism.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  33. Anon[305] • Disclaimer says:

    Nearly every very single mainstream poltical, business, and media leader in Germany has been educated the US (usually a graduate degree), is a member of various US-German friendship societies ( The Atlantic Council is most infamous, but there are many more). They have deep ties to their US counterparts.

    They read the NYTs or Washington Post daily. They watch CNN also daily.

    Don’t expect German leadership class to be any different than their US counterparts.

  34. Miro23 says:
    @nosquat loquat

    And yet they were all forced to leave (ethnic German Poles), in part, no doubt, because most of them had supported the new, invading German conquerors and were thereafter viewed with mistrust and hostility by the host countries.

    Yes, ethnic German Poles fully supported the Nazi subjugation of ethnic Poles and the brutal enslavement of Poland. That was despite them having flourishing long established communities and forming a good proportion the middle class of Polish cities under benevolent Polish law.

    It’s difficult to feel too much sympathy for the expulsion of Germans from Poland after WW2.

    • Replies: @HdC
    , @nosquat loquat
  35. skrik says:

    “We’re all looking for our country,”

    I don’t see it. Current German politicians are continuing down the brainwashed tracks imposed upon them post-’45; now up to criminalizing holohoax-denial and criticism of ((them)) as anti-Semitism. The public does not appear to think; interesting is that at the Oktoberfest, the music has gone over mostly to hip-hop = throwing their Kultur down the gurgler.

    What the conquerors forced upon the German survivors, also upon the yet unborn, was the guilt-accusation for the [non-existent!] holohoax.

    What the conquerors did was *inhuman*; do we wonder ((why))? rgds

  36. @Charles

    As always, “it has been written.” It’s all in the OT.

    Catholics were taught not to read the OT, since that would give the game away. “Daddy, why are the Jews killing everyone?”

    Protestants were told to read it and nothing else, since it was good. Everyone from the Pilgrims to the Mormons to MLK followed the same blueprint.

    Anyhow, ever hear of the Book of Judges? That was the Golden Age, before the Jews demanded “a king like every other people,” and YHVH reluctantly gave them Saul.

    But the Jews had been ruled by judges, and long for their return.

    Nuremberg was only the first step. Notice the “kritotcracy” we live under now? Notice how every knee must bend to these holy creatures in black robes, who are literally above the law.

    Notice the morons dancing around, “Hurray for the UK Supreme Court” (an invention of globalist Tony Blair, so you know it must be in your own best interest, right?) Throwing trannies under the bus is a small price to pay for popular acceptance.

    “I am the law! Prepare to be judged!” — Judge Dredd.

    In the Messianic Age (almost here!) there will be one world government, ruled from Jerusalem, but no king or president.

    ” In Jerusalem, the United Nations will build a shrine of the prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah…” — Ben Gurion, Life Magazine, 1962

    https://christianobserver.net/jerusalem-will-be-the-seat-of-the-supreme-court-of-mankind-david-ben-gurion/

    The whole world, subject to a continuous Nuremberg procedure; what a utopia!

    • Replies: @JesusWasAGayJew
  37. @Poupon Marx

    So, she’s in favour of fossil fuels (nuclear is a dead-end to force fossil fuels to continue, as the decades pass as nuclear is built) ergo human destruction by anthropogenic climate destabilisation. And they are wind TURBINES, morons-wind-MILLS grind grain.

    • LOL: HdC
    • Replies: @Eric135
  38. @Digital Samizdat

    She will prove a Trojan Horse for the Jewintern.

  39. Chaskinss says:

    “germany” does NOT exist. It is not a sovereign; it is a US empire vassal occupied by dozens of US military bases.

    In sum, they’re owned by the US empire like Japan, “south” korea, the failippines, etc.

    • Replies: @Walt King
  40. From Mars says:

    From the whole of my heart I would like to thank the people of Chicago and many other Americans for ‘voting’ for Canada. Not in an election, but they decided that we have a right to exist. And I say Thank You.
    You are always welcome here.

  41. michel49 says:

    Un officier americain demandait au gal Guderian prisonnier son opinion sur le nazisme; il a repondu “c’etait une tres bonne ideologie, l’Allemagne a perdu la guerre à cause d’un leadership inadapté “.

  42. Eric135 says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    “And they are wind TURBINES, morons – wind MILLS grind grain.”

    Power plant steam turbines spin from 1,800 to 3,600 revolutions per minute (RPM). Gas turbines spin from 3,000 to 4,000 RPM. Microturbines can reach speeds as high as 500,000 RPM.

    Wind “turbines” only spin from 8 to 20 RPM.

    They’re ugly, pointless, stupid and harmful to the environment.

    • Agree: dimples
  43. Nat X says:

    During the 80s you could buy a pretty german whore for less than $20. Good times…

  44. turtle says: • Website
    @anarchyst

    using a delousing agent as an ineffective “poison gas”

    Why use HCN when you have got Sarin?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

    Sarin was discovered in 1938 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld in Germany by scientists at IG Farben who were attempting to create stronger pesticides; it is the most toxic of the four G-Series nerve agents made by Germany.

    Estimates for total sarin production by Nazi Germany range from 500 kg to 10 tons.

    Hydrogen cyanide, 2,860 mg/(min·m3)[23] – Sarin is 81 times more lethal

    Note that in the video included with the article, the goats were all dead within 4 minutes.

    Though sarin, tabun, and soman were incorporated into artillery shells, Germany did not use nerve agents against Allied targets. Adolf Hitler refused to initiate the use of gases such as sarin as weapons.

  45. Bama says:

    Germany, U.S., UK. Lemming nations among others who have helped to make the world a more miserable place for innocent people and nations by their pact with the devil.

    • Agree: JR Foley
    • Replies: @Malla
  46. Linus says:

    I had a professor in graduate school who was German, and although she had been living in the US for decades, still spoke with a German accent. In one class, the discussion of the war and the holocaust came up. She burst into tears. The students rallied behind her, and thanked her for her intense show of emotion.

    Back then, I didn’t have the vocabulary and knowledge that I now have, but even in those early days I could recognize that she was oddly broken, and I had the vaguest hint that this was a type of conditioning. She was a wonderful person, and ended up being a guiding light for me.

  47. Linus says:
    @Stogumber

    IOW, what happened to the Germans is the same thing that happened to us?

    • Replies: @eah
  48. Walt King says:
    @Chaskinss

    RT reports today:

    Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor-designate, said in February that Berlin must “gradually achieve independence from the US.”

    So he admits it’s a colony.

    • Thanks: Chaskinss
  49. Anon[408] • Disclaimer says:
    @Thomas Zaja

    The word “emasculated” comes to mind. However, at that press conference what could Olaf really say that wouldn’t have ignited a firestorm? “Hey, this guy is senile and has no clue as to what he’s saying, because if he did he wouldn’t be saying it live on TV!”… I don’t think the common person understood how far gone Biden really was, no doubt world leaders like Olaf knew about 30 seconds after talking with him, which makes the whole situation even worse I suppose, as you know you’re being ruled over by a man with dementia and shadow puppet masters pulling the strings. The German people and their politicians have been cucked into oblivion and the result is what we see now.

    -Rooster

    • Replies: @Liosnagcat
  50. JR Foley says:
    @Diversity Heretic

    Olaf did a real job—I thought Germans were bright people until this crew arrived. Sabataging the Norsk Pipeline was another intelligent move—-however those 5 Stotenberg trained scuba divers did a good job considering the risk—–strudel and Heidelberg– please–should never have done Auschwitz—should have used the energy on the Eastern Front Schultz !!!!!

  51. HT says:
    @Stogumber

    Really not much different than America and the rest of Western Europe where Jew control of institutions was used to infuse self loathing into those societies which has resulted in their down fall as third world invaders take over.

  52. xyzxy says:
    @Poupon Marx

    She was an economist working with international banking and financial companies, and spent 6 years working for the Bank of China..

    Just to be clear, in case anyone might be confused, her work was with a Chinese commercial banking and financial services firm, and not the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank. One would, of course, expect the lady to have a good grasp of China’s economy, culture, and political situation, in addition to recognizing China’s importance for German industrial output.

    Weidel’s relations with the Jewish community appears to turn on typical Jewish paranoia over their made-up hoax, which in turn manifests through their cultural-political influence within Germany. In any case, organized Jewry finds her suspect.

    Her own statements attempt to deflect innuendo that she’s something of a sub-rosa Nazi, and when asked about it she responded in a banal manner, criticizing the economics of ‘socialism’. From an article (2/23/25) in the Times of Israel:

    Addressing claims that her party was a National Socialist reincarnation, Weidel declared that the AfD is the opposite of the Nazi party, since according to her Hitler was a “socialist.”

    Needless to say her statement about the finer points of socialism didn’t help assuage Jewish paranoia.

    Remko Leemhuis. Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations had this to say about Wiedel, in an article (2/25/25) on their Web entitled Why Germany’s Antisemitic Far-Right Party is Thriving Instead of Disappearing:

    AfD is also a symbol of polarization… across the western world. Historically speaking, times of polarization have never been good times for the Jewish community.

    But I also have to say that the German Jewish community is also very aligned in how to deal with the AfD, and that means no Jewish organization speaks to the AfD. Every Jewish organization at some point in time has come out against the AfD.

    …the AfD so far, hasn’t been successful in using Jews, or, you know, Israel, or pretending to be Israel’s biggest friend and the Jewish community’s biggest friends. No one buys into that, and everyone can see through that, and everyone understands that this is performative at best.

    And I guess we Germans [sic] also have to learn that … democracy means debating things and having hard debates about issues.

    So from an onlookers perspective, Weidel appears to be a mixed bag of goods. Pro Israel, but Jews distrust her. Not that Jews trust anyone who isn’t Jewish, but this lady surely walks a fine political line. My guess is that the party will be banned–at least if it is at all politically possible.

    Trump’s apparent embrace of her (through Vance) is also a curious thing, given Trump’s anti-China stance. Lately the German press has been ‘concerned’ about AfD’s less than hateful attitude toward the Middle Kingdom. With typical irony, Deutsche Welle ran a piece about how Weidel was essentially against ‘human rights’ because Weidel criticized Annalena Baerbock’s criticism of what they called the human rights situation in China. This was at a time when Germany had imprisoned a 95 year old grandma for questioning official German historical research guidelines.

  53. @SteveK9

    @Pythas

    You think it makes me happy? Haven’t been a ‘boy’ for 60 years.

    Anyone who calls another poster ‘boy’ is simply a cowardly loser who would never have the balls to say that to anyone’s face in real life.

    So they hide behind their keyboard pretending to be a tough-guy, when the reality is that they are about as tough as a little schoolgirl.

    Pretend tough-guys who try that shit in real life end up in the hospital with a broken face.

  54. @James J. O'Meara

    Catholics were taught not to read the OT, since that would give the game away. “Daddy, why are the Jews killing everyone?”

    That’s your argument? That the Jews control the Catholic Church?

    M’kay…

  55. @Steve in Dallas

    1) From the very beginning (certainly by 6yrs old?) I grew to deeply despise (hate?) the NYC Jews who were clearly mean/evil spirited… they lectured to us young boys things like… “Take or Be Taken… Kill or Be Killed”… which, by the time I was 10yrs old, I argued with my mother was clearly the philosophy of a totally “evil” and “uncivilized” people. It was a nightmare in NYC… everything was so hateful and miserable… and “uncivilized”.

    Sorry Jew, we both know you fabricated that story from whole cloth. Just a huge, steaming pile of horseshit.

    Your mother was a Jew, and therefore YOU are a Jew.

    And BTW, 6-year-old children aren’t capable of ‘hating’ entire groups of people. They have to be taught that little trick.

    • Troll: mulga mumblebrain
  56. @Diversity Heretic

    If there is hope for the planet, if lies in the East.

  57. @Eric135

    See Alice Weitel, co-chair of the AfD, characteristic discription; “Windmills of shame”. She has vowed to dismantle ALL of them, as representative of her party, which is the largest in Germany. More guts, knowledge, and courage, then ANY Western politico.

    • Thanks: Eric135
  58. “My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see I was right.”

  59. @xyzxy

    My guess is that the party will be banned–at least if it is at all politically possible.

    Very unlikely, if you have been following developments closely in Germany. AfD is the largest part with over 26%, and the CDU/CSU trending downward with 25%. Weidel is a compelling public speaker who is fearless and full of facts at her fingertips. She also worked for J.P. Morgan and other international investment bankers, before starting her own firm and concentrating on the development of startups. She speaks fluent Mandarin. Her PhD thesis was on the Chinese pension system.

    Your comments on or in relation to Jews is irrelevant, and insignificant. All candidates in the West must toe some kind of line with International ZIO Private Equity. She knows who and why Germany was put into the position it is in. Therefore, she and the Party do not mention or overtly mention or discuss The Jewish Question.

    Rather, what it seems you missed is this in her speeches, writings and interviews: complete dismantling of ALL Green Energy schemes, and the substitution of nuclear power and coal. Deportation of all refugees and illegal immigrants [similar to the US], completely closed borders, tax cuts, reduction of Federal Government, reversion to the Deutsche Mark, distance from the EU, restoration of the Nord Streams, closer relations to Russia, and elimination of censorship.

    Unqualified endorsement by Elon Musk, D. Trump, JD Vance. A candidate that appears once in a generation. Her general comportment and poise radiate her self-confidence and strong ego and positive persona. On a Jungian perspective, Eastern perspective, and Myers-Briggs evaluation, she is the near perfect candidate. She is 45 years old and displays very uncommon wisdom.

    You “guess”?

    • Replies: @xyzxy
  60. @SteveK9

    The Jews declared war on Germany, … and they won.

    This would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

    As if ‘The Jews’ are some sort of monolithic entity. The Jews can’t agree on anything, let alone declare war on anyone.

    It’s not like the Catholic Church where one person–the Pope–speaks for the entire religion. No one person speaks for the Jews, and there’s absolutely zero consensus on any issue, including the war in Gaza, and even the right of Israel to exist in the first place.

    Most Jews don’t attend synagogue, and don’t belong to any Jewish organization.

    Saying ‘The Jews’ declared war on anyone is the equivalent of saying ‘White People’ declare war on ‘The Jews’.

    There’s simply no consensus whatsoever.

    • Disagree: Zumbuddi
    • Replies: @NATO Blues
    , @Sonja
  61. HdC says:
    @Miro23

    Read the book Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland, and get back to us.

    • Thanks: Annacath
    • Replies: @Patrick McNally
  62. @NobodyImportant

    Low IQ and low Emotional Intelligence buffoons like you are sludge on here. Where your normal vocabulary contains a swear word, nestled in your elementary syntax and semantic clumsiness, you need to spare us the noise.

  63. Runas says:
    @Steve in Dallas

    Thank you, very heart true 🌷

  64. We must leave it to the Boche Vulvocracy to become the men their grandfathers were.

  65. xyzxy says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Your comments on or in relation to Jews is irrelevant, and insignificant.

    It might be irrelevant in that, as you say, all politicians must toe the line. But it is certainly significant.

    With Weidel’s comments (not mine) in mind, I must ask you, what exactly are you implying? Are you hinting that she was disingenuous in her answer regarding the JQ, deflecting for political reasons? Obviously, when asked about National Socialism, to reply that Hitler was a ‘socialist’ and AfD is not a socialist party is a pretty bizarre response, given the original question’s connotation. I’m certain that the economic ideas of Hjalmar Schacht were not what the question was about. Or, what the Jewish press was getting at.

    Also, the fact that much of organized Jewry is against her and the party is hardly insignificant, and definitely not irrelevant to her political future. Would you say so?

    Speaking of the future… in spite of your snarky reply (which I don’t mind, BTW), it is always a guess. You know that. However your guess is as good as mine. Or anyone’s, for that matter. Time will tell.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @Notsofast
  66. @xyzxy

    Alice Weidel CV:

    Early life and career

    Weidel was born in Gütersloh and grew up in Harsewinkel, where she graduated from a Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD) Gymnasium in 1998.[5][6] She studied economics and business administration at the University of Bayreuth and graduated as one of the best in the year in 2004.[7] After receiving her undergraduate degree, Weidel went to work for Goldman Sachs Asset Management from July 2005 to June 2006 as an analyst in Frankfurt.[8][9] In the late 2000s, she worked at the Bank of China, and lived for six years in China.[5][10] Subsequently, she wrote a doctoral thesis with the health economist Peter Oberender at the Faculty of Law and Economics in Bayreuth on the future of the Chinese pension system.[11] In 2011, she received a doctorate in international development.[5][8][12][13] She received her doctorate magna cum laude.[14] Her doctorate was supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the political party foundation associated with but independent of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).[15]

    From March 2011 to May 2013, she worked as Vice President at Allianz Global Investors in Frankfurt.[9][8] Since 2014, she has worked as a freelance business consultant.[5] In 2015, she worked for Rocket Internet and Foodora.[16] As of 2016, Weidel was a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society.[17][18][19]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel

    I have, over the past few months, post many comments and references on Alice Weidel. I recommend accessing these if you are interested in this subject.

  67. @xyzxy

    Her characterization of Hitler as a Left Wing Socialist/proto-communist is justified. I have explained and referenced this statement and declaration in earlier comments. I will not repeat them here.

    However your guess is as good as mine.

    That’s quite absurd, as all guesses are not equal, a priori. Some are mere flatulence, others the end result of deliberation, research, meditation, and talking to one’s cat.

  68. JoeKosh says:

    “Now begins the great last revolution. In gaining political power the Jew casts off the few cloaks that he still wears. The democratic peoples Jew becomes the blood-Jew and tyrant over peoples. In a few years he tries to exterminate the national intelligentsia and by robbing the peoples of their natural intellectual leadership makes them ripe for the slaves lot of permanent subjugation.” Hitler

  69. Belis60 says:

    All this attention for Germany…it’s all of Western Europe that is in crisis. It is impossible to compare the living standards of the 80s and 90s with those of today, and this is true for all of Western Europe.
    30 years of decadence that have coincided with the attribution of enormous governmental powers to the EU Commission, starting from the Maastricht Treaty of 1993 and subsequent treaties.
    Germany is only one of the cases. UK, France, Belgium and Sweden are even worse.,…

    • Agree: The Alarmist
    • Replies: @Top Lel
  70. The post-war (WW2) Germany of which you speak at the top of the essay was built and run by people who dug themselves out of the rubble and rebuilt it. The mass of people were, for the most part, not proud of what was done in their name in the war, but they still saw being German as a good thing, and they felt it appropriate to push back on the US where German interests were being pushed aside.

    I would posit that the rise of the Holocaust ”industry” in the 1970s and ‘80s led to the susceptible younger generations, who had a far easier life than their parents and grandparents, being browbeaten into the mantra that Germans should be deeply ashamed to be German; that they should take up the mantle of being “responsible” Europeans and let Germany wither away.

    That explains why Mr. Scholz stood there and took the verbal beating from Mr. Biden. He and the rest of his cabinet were willing accomplices of globalist, not German interests, because in their eyes, “Germany Bad, Europe good.”

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  71. eah says:
    @Linus

    In one of his American Dissident Voices broadcasts, William Luther Pierce said the most obvious evidence of a conspiracy, or common plan, was the fact that the exact same things are happening in every white country — in particular, his main concern was mass non-white immigration against the will and without the consent of the population — in every other aspect, e.g. politics, culture, language, sport, etc you can easily find significant differences — but mass non-white immigration that no one ever voted for is a constant in nearly all ostensibly democratic white countries — another obvious commonality is the prevalence of a highly influential/controlling mass media, including ‘entertainment’ produced by American media companies, which today often contains a lot of racial propaganda.

    • Thanks: Linus
  72. the exact same things are happening in every white country…and at the same time, in a coordinated way.

  73. @Carlton Meyer

    NATO’s convert an overt subversion and undermine the Soviet Union was a continuation of 200 years of effort from Western Europe to destroy, and lay prostrate the EuroAsian landmass and people. A recurrent and obsessive wet dream, from Napolean on. Russia saved Western Europe many times; from the Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tatars. All the while getting nothing in return, except enmity, betrayal and larceny and mass murder. Lies upon lies. Some shallow people thought it all started with Maiden in 2014.

    [MORE]

    In the end, Schaffhauser concludes that the real cause of the West’s war against Russia is liberalism in the form in which it has mutated over the past decades in the United States.

    “Liberalism, through subjectivism, relativism and secularism, makes people lose their sense of reality in internal and external politics—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is hegemonic because it holds the truth, which forces it to wage war for its enlightenment—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is greedy because it organizes society with money in mind; the result is internal and external chaos, because it removes the love, friendship and free giving that make up national and international society—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is the nihilism that destroys others and itself.”

    In this logic, Russia should be destroyed simply for what it is, because it opposes liberalism and nihilism. Probably because it went through both of these upheavals in the twentieth century and knows the cost of them.

    And it seems to wish Russia victory in this war, which goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine. A victory not only for Russia, but for all wholesome forces that resist Western hegemony, because “liberalism unleashes all kinds of health and financial crises against its own and other people, to assert its internal and external domination. This process will only come to an end in the war between its nothingness and Being. Western liberalism is fundamentally satanic, the Satan of the end times.”

    But only Russia appears as an ark of salvation where, according to Schaffhauser, Christian wisdom and love have been preserved.

    In the end, Schaffhauser concludes that the real cause of the West’s war against Russia is liberalism in the form in which it has mutated over the past decades in the United States.

    “Liberalism, through subjectivism, relativism and secularism, makes people lose their sense of reality in internal and external politics—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is hegemonic because it holds the truth, which forces it to wage war for its enlightenment—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is greedy because it organizes society with money in mind; the result is internal and external chaos, because it removes the love, friendship and free giving that make up national and international society—this leads to nihilism. Liberalism is the nihilism that destroys others and itself.”

    In this logic, Russia should be destroyed simply for what it is, because it opposes liberalism and nihilism. Probably because it went through both of these upheavals in the twentieth century and knows the cost of them.

    And it seems to wish Russia victory in this war, which goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine. A victory not only for Russia, but for all wholesome forces that resist Western hegemony, because “liberalism unleashes all kinds of health and financial crises against its own and other people, to assert its internal and external domination. This process will only come to an end in the war between its nothingness and Being. Western liberalism is fundamentally satanic, the Satan of the end times.”

    https://katehon.com/en/article/why-west-wants-destroy-russia

    Russian and Slavic Civilization, The Russian Orthodox Church, and the traditional values of Russia and the Federation [what Europe once was] create inner spiritual and psychological tension in the Western Mind or Consciousness. The West needs to destroy Russia as Satan needs to destroy Heaven and the Angels.

    The West is suffused with evil, loathing, self-destructive psychosis. For over 200 years, it has been sick and in denial of its diseases.


    Video Link

  74. Zumbuddi says:
    @Stogumber

    The so-called “second denazification” started after 1960 and hysterical anti-fascism had its first peak around 1970. It then got codified and routinized and will get more and more lame.

    Could you tell us more about the “second denazification?” Are there books or essays you would suggest?

    What little I know about the first denazification of Germany is from Capturing the German Eye, which focuses on use of visual media but also provides larger background.

    One of the most striking passages I read in the book stated that

    “OMGUS [American military occupying force] held the monopoly on use of violence . . . to democratize by force the German people and teach them American values, including consumerism…”

    I’ve never studied political science so maybe that concept is fundamental: governments, even occupying governments, rule by fear backed up with monopoly on violence.

    I probably learned about the book via C Span: https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/capturing-the-german-eye/437514
    but the book adds context and detail that is chilling.

    The book also mentions that US military and government leaders in Washington were opposed to the harsh measures imposed on the German people, but that “private funds” were raised to support “private groups” that carried out certain (((draconian))) measures.

    What was done to the German people after the war (as well as during the war, with firebombing of civilians) was unprecedented and demonic.

    • Agree: Guest perfect
    • Replies: @eah
  75. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    100% correct except that merkel derkel erkel destroyed DE. Useless moron Elmer Fudd simple partied on the deck as the boat sank.

  76. @JesusWasAGayJew

    I think at this point the use of the term “Jew” in these regards is generic for zio pos. Many Jews of good faith are everywhere, there are no zios of good faith but we tend to simplify things by using the term “Jew” to describe them. This is also because everyone understands the term “Jew” while a lot of people don’t necessarily understand the term “zio” or “zionist” as it relates to Jews or Christians.

    • Replies: @Liosnagcat
  77. Anonymous[305] • Disclaimer says:

    Decent essay. Astounding the guy got thru it without once mention the word ‘jew.’ You know, the Rat-People who are a Hemispheric misfortune.

  78. Anonymous[305] • Disclaimer says:
    @The Alarmist

    Which makes him a piece of shit of a human being.

    I feel for modern GERMAN men and * some women* who realize what the pestilential jew and its masonic filth-legions have done to their grandfather’s FATHERLAND.

    Germany has been poisoned by judaic bacterium.

  79. ebear says: • Website

    Speaking of Cold War propaganda on TV, I recall that it didn’t always run in one direction. One of my favourite shows from that era was Rocky and Bullwinkle which did an outstanding job of parodying the Cold War mentality in the guise of a kid’s cartoon. Also worth recalling is the 1966 film “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/

    That film put a human face on the Russian people, possibly for the first time, and made it impossible for young minds such as mine to unquestioningly fear or hate them. I liked that film so much I even painted a red star on a toy submarine I had. I don’t think my father was too impressed by that – he was a major in NATO mobile command, but the film had a lasting effect on me, to the point I even started learning Russian. I didn’t make much progress as all I had was a book, and unlike today no media to help, apart from Radio Moscow on short-wave when it wasn’t being jammed.

    My father’s attitude was a mystery to me actually. The first people who helped us when we moved to Canada were a Russian couple who’d been through the war and had lost 4 children to that conflict. We rented a suite in their home for the first year until we bought a house. That couple, plus their surviving teenage son, treated us like family, and the mother cared for me and my little brother after school before my mom came home from work. Her husband, a railway worker with the CPR, even helped us build a garage at our new home. So my childhood experience of Russians was very favourable – an impression that’s survived every encounter since then with Russian people.

  80. Notsofast says:
    @xyzxy

    the real question is this: what’s her position on zionism? i can’t really find anything on google or yandex but i didn’t look for that long.

  81. Joe Wong says:
    @Diversity Heretic

    Watching Deutsche Welle (DW), you know the Germans are totally mentally colonized by the Anglo and Americans. Germans like a broken recorder of the Anglo and American CIA, NED gang of propaganda machinery, repeats and repeats of UK and USA racist retarded fabricated Cold War trolls.

    Germans and Japs have no identity and spines, they are pure American lapdogs and best slaves. Probably, Olaf Scholz was thankful that Nord Stream II was not a German asset.

    • Agree: Chaskinns
  82. HbutnotG says:
    @Poupon Marx

    You make a good point. I see nothing Zionist, here.

    Many normal heterosexual people get all wrapped up in what goes on in her panties (I sorta wonder if they “scissor” and stuff but I’m an old guy, born horny (which means anything “down there” occupies my mind a lot) and that bit of “T” still prevails – even though I really don’t give a shit. But the western world is now all wrapped up in who somebody sleeps with – it’s the first thing they gotta know! I dare you to disagree. In a more perfect world, she could have (and would have) kept her mouth shut.

    I like her interest in cranking up those nuclear energy contraptions. And that’s because the mainstream media (as Zionist as you can get – and other things, like stupifying people, maybe, deliberately?) has been dissing nuclear energy out their ass for 45 years – citing a few minor things in the West, and “OMG!” Chernobyl! You don’t know! I don’t know…all I know is the exhorbitant cost of ‘letterizzity” here in the US and the dearth of power in Germany is proof enough. Flipping through TV channels years ago, I saw the windmills on that stupid Dutch TV show for 3 yr olds Teletubbies. When children see certain things shown on a TV show slathered with “feelinga” as young kids, they are very likely to buy into it as adults – especially if, as adults, anything off center is automatically appealing. Those windmills in The Netherlands energize a few pumps to get water out of the polders – not light up cities.

    Palm Springs California is a classic example. The huge (ugly and pretty much useless) wind farm in the pass was lauded as “cheap-no…wait…free electricity” by the fruitcakes (who couldn’t keep their personal life personal for some reason – and yes there actually were reasons for that on both sides of the aisle) who fled there once it lost the image of a suburban-style heterosexual playground for Dean Martin et al) bought into it with zero knowledge of 2 things: the vast limitations of wind power (even in the windiest spot) and the fact that California Edison was gonna cut their ‘lectric bill, no matter what. Your kilowatts there are just as costly as they are in a coal burning place (coal burners, with “chimney scrubbers? wattsdat?”) And, btw, Donnie hasn’t mentioned “drill, baby drill!” since Jan 20th. My gasoline is exactly the same price as it was a year ago. I’m gonna be patient – but not optimistic. These things do take time, but there are 65 (((cooks in the kitchen))) with this or anything related. Good luck with that.

    Somebody very determined to trash “fads” like get people’s minds out of other people’s underpants, and get back to reality is the only hope Germany has. Germans have been indoctrinated with intra-underpants baloney as far back as I can remember (50 years). It ain’t gonna be easy. One has to remember there’s 3 generations there who have been massively indoctrinated in many ways. The Zionists have done their job.

    Having read Mein Kampf, what do I think of Adolf Hitler?
    “the best of intentions…the worst of outcomes”
    because when you get down to it, a nation is a culture, like it or not.

  83. Pheasant says:

    ‘To put this point another way, to the extent Germany and Japan made themselves democracies in the postwar decades, this was not because of America’s influence so much as in spite of it’

    Japan preparing to intervene in any Chinese invasion of Taiwan supports this point.

  84. Sonja says:
    @JesusWasAGayJew

    The Jews can’t agree on anything – except to promote other Jews.

    • Agree: Eric135
  85. Top Lel says:
    @Belis60

    And all “right wing” parties of Europe wish to return to that decandence, instead of doing self searching and fixing things. Basically, continuing the neoliberal welfare gravy train. Every single one of them.

    There is no hope.

  86. @NATO Blues

    Many Jews of good faith are everywhere. . .

    You should get out more.

  87. @Anonymous

    . . . away from synthetic centrally-manipulated CIA culture to something spontaneous.

    Where do you recommend they begin their search?

  88. @Anon

    . . . what could Olaf really say. . . ?

    How ’bout, “I remind the President that the pipeline is as much a German asset as a Russian one.” ?

  89. Malla says:
    @Bama

    Germany, U.S., UK. Lemming nations among others who have helped to make the world a more miserable place for innocent people

    How so?

  90. @Observator

    There’s a passage in Conrad Black’s biography of FDR that sets this out with rather startling plainness. He admits that FDR was gunning for Hitler from the get-go, long before Hitler would return the favor. And he attributes to Roosevelt the need to “make the world safe for democracy” (that again!) and then the need to crush Hitler in order to make sure that the United States could be the number one country in the world.

    All of which Black sees, presumably, as all to the good, all to the good! Still, it is something to see that NY Gov Roosevelt already is plotting world domination.

    • Replies: @HdC
  91. @Thomas Zaja

    Gerhard Schroeder was the last leader who you could consider to not be submissive.

    That scumbag led the charge to break up Yugoslavia and bomb Serbia. Then he is Putin’s good friend.

    • Agree: Odyssey
    • Replies: @chris
  92. chris says:
    @Anonymous

    Funny point about the cheesiness of it all, but that’s just the point which PL misses in the article.

    It’s all well and good to lament the passing of Germany, but the exact same passion play should also have been composed to the picture of any and all meetings of Biden with Nethenyahoo.

    By focusing on the first but not on the second, PL is trying to sweep under the rug the much bigger picture of which faction is really running the whole show; of which Germany, England, and France are just the side-shows.

  93. Anonymous[317] • Disclaimer says:

    Germany is a prime example of how american and british are always unable to carry responsibility of their actions and always blame somebody else for what they have done and just whitewash history to make it somehow fit their narrative. Too easy.

    American and british terrorists first terrorized and mass murdered german civilian population and prisoners of war in their death camps, bombed the country to ruins after organizing the bolshevik communist revolution and allying with the bolshevik communists against Germany and Finland. Then after the war, after continuing to mass murdere prisoners of war in hundreds of thousands, USA officially stating “We are not killing german fast enough.”, american CIA intentionally pushed degenerate american and british “culture” and “values” to Germany, the Soviet Union and Finland.

    Now Hegseth and everybody else is blaming german for their destruction and “threatening” that they will pull out occupation forces out from Germany, because Germany isnt paying enough. What a moron idiot, like all american!

    • Agree: HdC
  94. chris says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Yeah but the break-up of Yugoslavia was always, like all others, a US project. Schroeder and Germany were just the dogs barking at the passing circus.

    This was to be a place where the US was going to ostensibly take the side of Muslims against Europeans in order to be able to cite one example of such, against every other instance in the Middle East in which it had consistently done the opposite.

    Clinton himself said as much.

    Of course, this was first and foremost a Zionist and not a US agenda.

    • Agree: Annacath
    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  95. @xyzxy

    Pro-Israel means pro-genocide, pro-child murder, pro-torture, pro-rape etc. The only moral position is to condemn the Zionazis while praising those Jews who oppose Israel’s utter barbarity. The Judeonazis ONLY accept TOTAL obeisance-to attempt to argue rationally with them sends them into a frenzy of rage and slander.

    • Agree: Chaskinns
  96. @Eric135

    A moron’s moron. The depth of brainwashing in the denialist death cult is frightening. Clearly many of them WANT humanity to perish in the climate destabilisation apocalypse-it’s probably intense self-loathing projected onto humanity.

  97. @chris

    True, but Germany has long standing animosity towards the Serbs and Russians, and fondness for Croats, Albanians and Bosniaks, like since WWII and before. Naturally they would jump to it when US and Western Jews gave the go ahead.

    And to consider that that Schroeder was once associated with the extreme left wing Baader Meinhof and Red Army Faction terrorist groups. I suppose he hoped to redeem himself of his illdoings while Chancellor by running to Putin to head his Gasprom.

    • Agree: chris
    • Replies: @Avery
  98. @Poupon Marx

    A great description for a potential German saviour.

    Well, perfection is never attainable; had she been sexually straight, that could have been the icing on the cake.

    But a great leader cannot go far without a great people. Mussolini is quoted as saying “it is not hard to lead the Italians, it is useless”. Will the Germans put their fate in their hand and elect the Libertarian-Conservatives with a landslide. I would not bet on it.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  99. @xyzxy

    “ Pro Israel, but Jews distrust her.”

    Pro Israel is the sine qua non to any aspiring Western politician, until we truly get a new world order.

    Jews distrust her, means there are good reasons for those with a free mind to take her seriously.

    If I were German, I would stake my chances on Wiedel.

  100. @Poupon Marx

    LOL dear Mark a lesbian won’t be leading Germany in the direction it needs to go to become solvent and White again.
    I doubt either of those things will happen anyway, but if it could, it wouldn’t be because a lesbian had anything to do with it.
    Imagine White men with a lesbian in power over them. LOL. Just goes to show how far gone Whites truly are.
    You may insult me and call me stupid if you wish but this is a fact.
    Lesbians have never saved anything but do serve to make everything worse.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  101. Sprumford says:
    @Charles

    Once I learned about Nuremberg, I was absolutely disgusted. The Allied war crimes FAR exceeded those of the Axis powers. You cannot use confessions achieved via torture, plain and simple. And those poor Nazi’s who were tried at Nuremberg were tortured mercilessly. Shame.

    • Agree: HdC
  102. Avery says:
    @Commentator Mike

    You are right Mike.

    Although it is true breakup of Yugoslavia was an Anglo-American Imperial project, Germany took enthusiastic lead in the criminal assault and terror bombing on Orthodox Christian Serbs.

    They could have unwillingly participated under orders from thier Anglo-American overlords. But this was their chance to vent their hatred.

    German hatred for Serbs and Russians is on full display for everyone to see: Germans are enthusiastically sending Leopard tanks and other heavy equipment to kill RF soldiers in Ukraine. German generals are openly discussing sending German cruise missiles to Russia to help UkroNazis murder Russian civilians.

    Russia has tried to have good relations with Germany since the breakup of USSR.
    No reasons for Germans to help UkroNazis kill Russians.
    Other than deep hatred, that they cannot control.

  103. @Guest perfect

    Far more homophobic Serbs had a lesbian as PM and she is now president of the parliament. Mind you I don’t think she was ever elected, but was appointed by President Vuchich. It looks like the Serbs don’t find her as unpalatable as one would have expected.

  104. @Avery

    You know, many say how it would be great if Germany and Russia got close together, how it would benefit both, Russia providing energy and resources to power German engineering and manufacturing industries to produce quality consumer goods for the Russians, and that it is the fault of the Anglo-Saxon that this doesn’t happen. It has been tried in the past, during Weimar and even during the Stalin-Hitler pact but it never lasted long. Oh I don’t know if it can ever come about as Germany has done so much evil to Russians during WWII and even now. There is so much hatred for Russians, and I suppose it is to be expected as most present day Germans are grandsons and granddaughters of those SS Nazis and other German soldiers who fought, died and surrendered at Stalingrad, beseiged Leningrad and almost entered Moscow. They were properly whipped by the Russians and the new Germans are now seething with hate and resentment, hoping to avenge the humiliation of their “master race” forefathers.

    Much the same holds for much of the rest of the EU. There were hundreds of thousands of Italians, Romanians, Croats, Hungarians and many others who joined Hitler’s adventurist offensive on the East, and all of them now have grandsons and granddaughters who are also seeking revenge, supporting the Ukrainian BanderoNaziZionist scum and contributing volunteers to the Ukrainian army, ready to kill and die at the fronts (with the possible exception of the Hungarians who truly seem to want to have fair relations with Russia).

    Not to mention the French, who fought the fiercest of all for Hitler, defending him to the last while he was in his bunker, who are descended from Napoleon and his armies that were defeated by the Russians who pushed them back all the way to Paris. You can see why the French hate Russians so much and want to avenge all their losses. So many French have died so far fighting for the Ukrainians. What is surprising is that so many French blacks have also enlisted to fight the Russians, and they are committing atrocious war crimes. God knows how many dead black French bodies are strewn across the front lines in the Ukraine. There could be the odd French Arab mercenary there motivated by the money but my impression is that most French Arabs are pro Putin, pro Donbas, and against the French government. Should the Russians ever repeat what they did to Napoleon and come knocking on France’s door, the French Arabs will rise in support and start massacring the French in the streets. I am surprised that the French blacks, on the other hand, are pro French and willing to do their dirty work in foreign wars like the one in the Ukraine.

    So it is foolish to expect some reconciliation of most of these Europeans with Russia, unless they are forced to withdraw into their shells and keep their heads down lest they be chopped off. Their rage and fury against the Russians is now rising in a lunatic crescendo, and Ukraine is their fanatical cause and an excuse to vent their hatred. I fear this will not stop until the Russians teach them another lesson, only this time without getting their hands dirty but by devastating means of destruction at a distance.

    • Replies: @Avery
    , @Dimitrie
  105. HdC says:
    @Lucius Somesuch

    As early as 1935 Roosevelt and Churchill conspired for war against Germany.

    In 1933 already “Judea Declares War Against Germany”!

    So who are the war mongers???

    • Thanks: anarchyst
  106. Avery says:
    @Commentator Mike

    {Their rage and fury against the Russians is now rising in a lunatic crescendo, and Ukraine is their fanatical cause and an excuse to vent their hatred}

    Exactly: “…lunatic ….”

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  107. eah says:
    @Zumbuddi

    There was no explicit zweite Entnazifizierung.

    After WWII there was a very explicit Entnazifierung: the NSDAP was dissolved, banned, its assets confiscated, and its members removed from all positions of public responsibility — Nazi symbols were also removed and made illegal — many party members were arrested, many more were interrogated to determine their level of involvement in alleged crimes of the regime.

    After that, developments in Germany followed a course similar to that of every Western society: increasing liberalization beginning in the 1960s, growing dominance of a mass media that created and pushed what was essentially a new secular morality: anti-racism and racial egalitarianism, feminism and gender equality, acceptance of aberrant sexuality, anti-fascism and a sanctification of democracy, a general campaign against ‘hate’ and for ‘tolerance’, etc — over the years, all of that was more and more aggressively enforced by political and media establishments.

    It wasn’t until 1994 that as part this ‘Holocaust denial’ was made illegal (§130, 1994 changes).

    • Thanks: Zumbuddi
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  108. Odyssey says:

    I expect tulip’s submission. Maybe she wants to surprise me for May 9th.
    Oh what joy. Yes, yes, yes, I will be singing Ode to Joy (i.e. Joy to Odyssey).

  109. @eah

    In both West Germany and the DDR de-Nazification was only at the top. Nazis soon filled the West Germany Government, because they were the ones with governmental experience, and because the USA was the Nazi successor State, the Fourth Reich. The melding between the Third Reich and the Fourth was deep and long-lasting, even to today.

  110. @Avery

    The Germans took the lead in destroying Yugoslavia to repay their Crote, Slovene and Bosniak allies from WWII. Ditto the Catholic Church under the Polack protector of priestly paedophiles, Wojtyla. WWII never ended.

  111. @HdC

    That’s mostly fabricated propaganda churned by Goebbels. There was a wave of Polish pogroms which broke out on September 3, 1939, and resulted in the killing of between 2-5 thousand ethnic Germans. These pogroms after Hitler had already started the war. The original files put together by the Central Office for the Graves of Murdered Ethnic Germans, headed by Kurt Lueck and Karl Berger, came up with 5,437 names where they allowed themselves to include Polish-German soldiers who died in combat with the Wehrmacht. Even that bit of exaggeration was not enough for Hitler, and so he decreed that the official number of victims would be 58,000. It is this fake number which is published in the German propaganda.

  112. S1 says:

    As a German-speaking Swiss friend put it the other day, “Germans, more than any other Europeans and first among them, learned to speak the language of the victor.”

    Is this present sad state of Germany and the German people the result of a post WWII ‘mistake’ they made and, or, a ‘trap’ they fell into as this article alleges, or rather the result of a juggernaut of overwhelming external forces and plans predating the two world wars which forced this ‘culture of submission’ upon them wholly against their will and desires?

    There are two pre WWII books written by Germans, both of incredible geopolitical insight, which strongly suggest that the latter is the case. [See links below and excerpts under ‘more’.]

    This is not to say that the Germans shouldn’t resist their present condition. They certainly should, and ideally succesfully.

    The New Rome; or, the United States of the World published in 1853 by Theodore Poesche and Charles Goepp.

    https://archive.org/details/newrome00poes/page/7/mode/1up

    Pax Americana: A Historical Study at the Turning Point of European History published in 1920 by Dr Ulrich Kahrstedt.

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/45325596?seq=1

    I only have some rather telling excerpts below of Pax Americana which appeared in the 1920 four page linked book review of a then New York Times owned journal, Current History, which felt compelled to dismiss both Dr Kahrstedt and his book as ‘alarmist’, ie ‘Do not listen to this man or anything he might have to say.’:

    [MORE]

    ‘All Europe is on the point of falling into servitude to the United States, whose whole international policy, he asserts, is an embodiment of State Machiavellianism aimed at complete world domination.’

    ‘Thus America has become the supreme dictator, and she need not trouble herself tö make this concrete; following the example of Rome, she can allow the nations of Europe to preserve a shadowy vestige of independence, exhaust themselves in mutual onslaughts, and become the helpless victims of her economic and financial domination.’

    ‘Under the American world rule all culture, all freedom of life, all beauty will depart.’

    America as a World Tyrant

    A German Historian’s Attempt to Prove That Europe is Becoming a Serf of the United States

    That the United States, in the role of a modern Machiavelli, is scheming succesfully to subjugate the whole of war-weakened Europe, is the startling thesis put forward by Dr. Ulrich Kahrstedt, a German historian, in his amazing book, “Pax Americana,” which has just appeared in Germany.

    According to this German alarmist, all Europe is on the point of falling into servitude to the United States, whose whole international policy, he asserts, is an embodiment of State Machiavellianism aimed at complete world domination.

    This sensational charge, worked out with characteristic German “Gründlichkeit,” is based throughout on a historical analogy between the methods by which Rome won her universal hegemony and those by which, since the outbreak of the war in 1914, the United States Government has acquired power of dictation in the political and financial affairs of weakened Europe – a degree of power, he says, without precedent since the days of the Roman Empire. According to Dr. Kahrstedt, Pax Americana is the modern translation of Pax Romana.

    Some additional excerpts from the 1920 book review:

    ‘The theory that America, represented by President Wilson, was outplayed and outmaneuvered at Versailles, is almost derisively rejected by this twentieth century Polybius. His whole mental attitude is emphasized in the charge that the Peace of Versailles is exactly what the United States desired, because its ruthless one-sidedness would pave the way for future wars. “A Europe tearing itself to pieces, not one recovering from its ills, must be the goal of every American statesman who keeps to his true course,” Dr. Kahrstedt declares. With Germany and Austria shattered and impotent, with the allied nations financially and economically ruined, America stands forward to seize the sceptre of the world.’

    ‘What has happened between 1914 and 1919 is more than half the road from the balance of power to American world domination. It would be strange indeed if the rest of the road were not covered in a few decades.’

    ‘An epoch has been marked in world history: Europe has reached its end as the centre of power in world politics. Just as the little Greek peninsula, after it had given up being the centre of world happenings for severa’ generations in classical antiquity, yielded first to the larger States of the Near East and then to Italy; just as Italy, at the end of ancient times, yielded the world centre to the regions north of the Alps; just as, in the late Middle Ages, when Italy had once more become the centre, at least for culture and science, her States were broken up by the European nations on the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean, so again the world centre is shifting: it is moving from Europe to the New World. An era has been reached as important as the migration of peoples, as the Renaissance, the Reformation, or the discovery of America, more important than the cannonade at Valmy in which Goethe felt the breath of world history.’

    ‘The destruction of life by the war, combined with the ever decreasing birth rate and immigration to triumphant America, will depopulate all Europe.’

    ‘Only one nation has the potential power to resist the American project of world domination, says Dr. Kahrstedt, who shows but little confidence even in this possibility. That nation is Japan.’

    ‘Article after article has been written in Germany in the last few years, even in the period antedating the war, which showed the same German incapacity to grasp a State policy dominated by a purely spiritual and humanitarian ideal. Wholly materialistic in her own Weltanschauung, Germany has been signaly unable to interpret the spirit and policy of other nations in any other terms. A cynic among nations, she is temperamentally incapable of believing in altruistic motives. The whole world outside of certain reactionary circles of Germany recognizes today the purity of America’s international policy. All Europe, by accepting it, demonstrated this recognition. In erecting the United States into a colossal image of hypocracy and Machiavellianism, Dr. Kahrstedt, it is clear, is but projecting outwardly the image of the Germany before the war, painting the picture of what Germany would have done, and probably would still do, if she were in America’s place. The accumulated evidence of the last few years shows that Europe knows our true face; our own actions suffice and will continue to suffice to show the grotesque distortion of Dr. Kahrstedt’s picture, and the futility of his sensational prophecies.’

    • Thanks: Zumbuddi
  113. @Joe Levantine

    A very good comment. Like all people in a classification, individuals break the mold and have no relation to the stereotype. A woman that loves another woman, with a moral, respectful, loving, and ideal in all important aspects, to me has nothing to do with performance, morality, and selectivity. I have worked with and managed a few women who were lesbians. There was absolutely nothing different in their general personal comportment and performance. I mean their private life had absolutely no effect or perception of different than heterosexual. And WTF does sexual orientation have to do with performance, anyway? Besides making some insecure people uncomfortable.

    I lived in the very heart of Hollywood for a year, in a bungalow off Sunset Blvd. I represented a business and had a wide social network. In this milieu, 50% are either homosexual or bi or try sexual. Ultimately, it is the person, their innate quality of ego and persona that is important. All the other criticisms are bypass. As long as the BEHAVIOR is within norms and cultural mainstream, alles gut.

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  114. Dimitrie says:
    @Commentator Mike

    There were hundreds of thousands of Italians, Romanians, Croats, Hungarians and many others who joined Hitler’s adventurist offensive on the East,

    But why this hundreds of thousands?

    Italians because Mussolini thought that he must suport his ally.

    Croats for no particular reason.

    French so they can pretend victory in east if they were defeated at home.

    Hungarians for securing their vicious dream. Don’t be so confident in their goodwill intentions so you won’t be tricked.

    From those you mentioned, Romanians were the only ones to have a solid reason: two provinces broken off by the USSR, massacre and deportation made by NKVD . Jew bolsheviks commissars. Plunder and starting of organized famine. Killings of the elites.

    • Replies: @Odyssey
    , @Commentator Mike
  115. @Avery

    Jung recognized the externalization of German animus toward Russia as an expression and expurgation of the Collective German Consciousness, of deep ontological fear of inferiority and insecurity. This externalized and rationalized aggression and depredation was a need of a neurosis and mental disorder. To this day, the German Mind can hardly credit the Slav with anything approaching parity or worthiness. “This is not possible for these people”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment

    While German virtue of advancement in the technical, scientific, and intellectual realm is laudable and deserved, some part of this broad area of accomplishment has a relationship with geography. Germany is in the middle of Europe. In this placement, not only physical exchanges of goods and services was enhanced, but so intellectual and rational knowledge exchange and interaction. This is a simple concept to grasp.

    On the other hand, Russia as a Eurasian country was on the periphery of Europe and isolated to a large degree by geography and its immense size, ethnic complexity, as well as unique influences. Today, as the country emerged from contagion of Western Parasitism and Pathological Idiotologies, the intrinsic strength – coming from within Russia centrifugally have demonstrated the talent, energy, powerful civilization focus, and depth of the Intellectual classes and the spiritual underpinnings which has acted as an ultimate compass that allowed the country to maintain the proper heading.

    By itself, within its own power and origin, with total sanctions numbering over 20,ooo, it has replace every good, technology, and service once provided by the West, EU and NATO. Today, it has the wholly self-developed best military technology and the World’s most formidable military. It’s manufactured goods are top notch, and it is producing its own chips using in house constructed lithography machines.

    Like the story of the tortoise and the hare, Russia is a marathon athlete, steady and ever advancing. The TREND IS UPWARD. For the West, treading water for now, but the lead weights tied to its ankles will lead to its drowning.

    Trump and his team: for instance, that they are already matching former sort-of-president Joe Biden in corruption and violence by co-perpetrating the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians). But there, Washington is, of course, just part of an even larger failure: As acute observers have noted, the West is now divided over tariffs and united in supporting genocide.

    Yet is it really the whole world that’s shaking in the big Trump Tariff Quake? No, not quite, and the exceptions are telling: Russia, as well as Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea. That makes Russia the one and only top league player that the Trumpists have exempted from their tariff attack, even if Moscow is nonetheless monitoring its international impact and preparing to minimize the indirect effects.

    As Russian President Vladimir Putin recently told a meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in an important speech sorely under-reported in Western mainstream media, there are now “28,595 sanctions against individuals and legal entities.” That is a number significantly exceeding “all sanctions ever imposed on all other nations combined.” Even a CNN journalist acknowledged in a recent interview with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, that the scale of the sanctions deployed against Russia has “no precedent.”

    Russian ruble is the world’s strongest currency, up 28% against the dollar and euro. Germany is de-industrializing, shrinking its economy, sociologically disintegrating. Wages are stagnant, inflation is increasing, and jobs disappearing. It and the West are rotting, putrefying, flaying insensatedly convulsing.

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  116. Odyssey says:
    @Dimitrie

    The artificial Romanian nation was created and programmed by the Jesuits for 250 years for this very task. The Romanians still cannot see beyond their noses and understand the essence. Just like the Croats, who are on the frontier of Catholicism charged by the Vatican with the dirtiest jobs and genocides against the Orthodox. 160,000 Romanians left their bones only under Stalingrad.

  117. Avery says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Great post: thanks for the Jung reference.
    Explains a lot about the strange behaviour of Germans: almost as if they are two different peoples in the body of one.

    And this: [“To this day, the German Mind can hardly credit the Slav with anything approaching parity or worthiness. “This is not possible for these people”.]
    So true.

    Re: {It’s manufactured goods are top notch,}

    I haven’t been to Russia since we left USSR — specifically Armenia SSR — just before the breakup, so I don’t know. Soviet/Russian military and space equipment have always been top notch.
    Workhorses.
    Reliable.
    Fault-tolerant.

    But don’t know how reliable and advanced their consumer goods are compared to say what South Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese produce for the US market. I think Russia has some catching up to do with the West in consumer white goods and consumer electronics. It will happen. Because they have superior military, and because of that Anglo-American Empire cannot wreck Russia, it will happen — if there is peace.

  118. This is Germany today:

    https://www.rt.com/news/616710-german-fm-response-rubio-afd-tyranny/

    where wanting to defend yourself from real immigrant invaders and wanting healthy relations with Russia is considered extremism. The way it’s going the AfD could end up being banned and its leaders jailed the way it was done to “Golden Dawn” in Greece. I wouldn’t be surprised if Germany hadn’t influenced Greece behind the scenes to get “Golden Dawn” banned out of politics as it was at the time when Germany was exerting maximum pressure on Greece following the referendum by the Greek people to refuse paying back their debt and everything that followed as the left wing government betrayed the nation that voted it into power.

  119. @Dimitrie

    Why have Russians always favoured Bulgaria over Romania? Bulgaria is larger and Russians had planned for it to be larger still as in the late 19th century they intended Bulgaria to extend all the way to the Adriatic Sea and possess much of what is Albania and North Macedonia today. Yet, as you say, the Soviets were chipping off bits of Romania.

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  120. I did a bit of further research and generally found that the perception of consumers was of ever increasing quality, year over year. Mindfully, many of these industries were startups, for the necessary import substitution after Feb. 2022.

    https://www.practicalecommerce.com/made-russia-8-brands-cross-border-consumers

    • Thanks: Avery
  121. @Poupon Marx

    And your comment displays pedantry, condescension, and general stupidity, despite all your putative research.

    Weidel is clearly a tool of the system, as even all your ballyhooed “research” shows. She’s just the nazi lurking behind all the contradictions of capitalism, which she so loyally serves. And I don’t like crypto-nazis, dykes or otherwise.

    Maybe you, for your part, should take your prolix comments to Die Stürmer.

  122. @Miro23

    The problem, as always, is in the collective nature of the punishment. You cannot assume a person’s guilt on the basis of their ethnicity alone. Otherwise the “solution” is the same as the Nazis’ desire to be rid of all Jews.

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  123. @Poupon Marx

    That makes me think Frederick the Great; he was gay but he proved to be one of Prussia’s greatest.

    Ultimately it is the performance that matters as you rightly mentioned. But being a role model with respect to living style can always be an added value.

    • Agree: Poupon Marx
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  124. @nosquat loquat

    But that’s what happens in wars and post-wars. The best is not to start up all these nationalist and ethnic conflicts with all the hateful propaganda that precedes the wars. Once it starts, then of course innocents will be victimised and punished. Who are the “innocents” anyway, when masses are collectively swept into the frenzy of hate and war? Individuals don’t fight wars, masses are needed for that.

  125. @Joe Levantine

    Alexander The Great. Tschaikovsky, etc, etc.

  126. Dimitrie says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Bulgaria was favored by Russia over Romania but not always. The story is long and quite complex.

    Simplifying:

    Back in XIX Century, France and Imperial Britain thought they need some fortress against Russia. The perennial dream of western powers to be victorious over East has the prerequisite to gain a solid base as near as possible of russian realm.

    France gain strong influence in Romania (greatly helped by Russian clumsiness – who resorted counterproductive to russification and pan-slavism) and Imperial Britain gained influence in Greece.

    Quite naturally, Russia found Bulgaria (they share a common slavic linguistic background) as her state building project. Indeed, Russia greatly helped Bulgaria.

    But as a curious twist, Bulgaria didn’t respond in kind to Russia: in WWI Bulgaria fought in Central Power alliance (allied with their arch-enemy Turkey?!!) against Russia. And in WWII Bulgaria de facto fought against Russia and was an ally of Germany.

    On the other hand, Romania fight allied with Russia against Germany & Austro Hungary& Bulgaria in WWI. And after august 1944 fought once again with USSR against Germany & Hungary . As for Greece, in both WWI and WWII, she was in the same camp as Russia.

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    , @Odyssey
  127. @Dimitrie

    And in WWII Bulgaria de facto fought against Russia and was an ally of Germany.

    Yes, Bulgaria was an ally of Germany during WWII but it did not fight Russia, de facto or otherwise, if you check the facts.

    • Replies: @Dimitrie
  128. Dimitrie says:
    @Commentator Mike

    In spite of any declaration of war against USSR, bulgarians did fight against USSR.

    Directly, the bulgarian navy escorted Axis convoys in the Black Sea. The Bulgarian Navy was involved in a number of skirmishes with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, which attacked Bulgarian shipping.

    Indirectly:

    Much more important, the Germans began to make use of Bulgarian occupation troops in large areas of Serbia. Practically bulgarian troops (~400.000 at the end of the war) acted as gendarmes of Germany in occupied territories and so german troops were withdraw or not needed in Balkans so where send to the Eastern Front.

    Beside that, I know (verbal sources not entire sure) that bulgarian volunteers fighted directly on Eastern Front, despite a ban of authorities.

    • Thanks: Commentator Mike
  129. Dimitrie says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Yeah. Still the circus remains, at least for now. Will see…

  130. Odyssey says:
    @Dimitrie

    France and Imperial Britain thought they needed some fortress against Russia.

    France gain strong influence in Romania (greatly helped by Russian clumsiness…

    Russia found Bulgaria (they share a common slavic linguistic background)…

    Dimi, you can only say such things to someone who knows things superficially.
    Western Europeans, together with the Vatican, have always wanted to conquer Russia and its riches and enslave the Slavs (Napoleon, Hitler, Madeleine Albright, etc.).

    You avoid saying that this fortress was not defensive but rather a means of penetrating the East. It is also a fact that Westerners (primarily the French) and the Vatican Jesuits created an artificial Romanian nation with the artificial language for this purpose (Eastern Latins) in order to separate the Serbs from the Russians. This has even been said publicly.

    So, Russia did not have a common Slavic origin only with the Bulgarians, but with the Romanians, too, who can also be called a Slavic people (descendants of the Serbian-speaking Dacians).

    Secondly, the role of the Romanians (as well as Bulgarians) in the First and Second World Wars was token and very minor, i.e. they switched sides and allied with Russia when everything was already over. Romanians fought much more on the Nazi side throughout the entire war and only under Stalingrad 160,000 Romanians left their bones.

    There is no point in hiding the true history and true origin of Romanians, it has nothing to do with you, but if you continue to twist and distort information, you will lose all credibility and harm the Romanian people because they will also be destroyed (as has already been decided for all Slavs) before they even open their eyes.

    • Replies: @Dimitrie
  131. Dimitrie says:
    @Odyssey

    I wouldn’t bother to respond to your imbecilities. But you are grossly eating sh…t.

    You don’t know nothing about romanian or serbian origins or history alike. Only idiocies mixed with truisms. In the exceptions when you say something true is only by mistake.

    750.000 soldiers mobilized in WWI, 400.000 died (and more than 250.000 civilians). At a country of 7.5 million peoples. After Tsar Nicholas was betrayed, we fight alone against Germany & Austro Hungarians. And stabilized the front for the entire 1917. Ourselves alone.

    2 millions mobilized in WWII, 500.000 million soldiers died (more than 400.000 million civilians died). A country of 15 millions. With no help form allies good-for-nothing we ended in 1940 with our provinces ripped off by USSR, Hungary and Bulgaria. With deportation and mass murderers in Bessarabia and Bukovina by USSR and ethnic cleansing and mass murderers in Transilvania by Hungary. As a matter of fact, the switch of sides by Romania shortened WWII with six month. Precious time, because in less than 6 months probably Germany would have get atomic bomb.

    And you ignorant bastard are you speaking of token and very minor role? Shut the f..k out

    I knew a few serbs and all are reliable and no-nosense guys.

    You are not so. It’s probable you are an invention of some sort of stupid robot.

    Fortunately, you cannot harm serbians because those who met them know well how genuine they are. Completely opposite of you.

    Go, find a strong wall and strike your head in it. Maybe some light will appear in your ass which substitute your brains.

    • LOL: Odyssey
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  132. Odyssey says:

    I congratulate all readers on Victory Day over Nazism, which returned like a boomerang to its proponents, bringing them to the brink of physical (Morgenthau) destruction, from which they were paradoxically saved precisely by the victors, who were destined to have their land taken away and themselves destroyed and enslaved, who even provided them with cheap raw materials for decades on which their ‘economic miracle‘ was created, but who failed to save them from their self-chosen present-day slavery, in which they pay billions of dollars to their masters every year.
    Today, I also expect the previously announced tulip’s submission.

  133. Today, I also expect the previously announced tulip’s submission.

    Wrong again, weren’t you, my SrbianChicken?

    So, WHERE were those blonde, blue-eyed, Devils prior to and during the Younger Dryas?

    Are Croats essentially Slavs from Serbiaopolis?

    Victory Day over Nazism

    An oxymoron if there ever was one.

    But, keep gloating, SrbianChicken; like black Africans and those pro-Jewry Romans, you indignant and delusional Slavs know not what you do. On average, European Slavs aren’t as feeble-minded as the average Negro, or other third-worlders (or maybe you are?), so Slavic populations will suffer greatly under dark/complete Alien rule, whilst the Negroes, et al, will live happily amongst the once-great European rubble, which is still an improvement over what they could create/sustain on their own. Standards vary, my chicken…

    Give my regards to PocketMousePenelope – tell her to drop me a note, by all means…

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