Another touchy topic that may ruffle some feathers.
This is not meant to be a comprehensive or deep exposition of the topic; more of an introduction to a concept about which most remain unaware.
But, please — as with everything you read — first, scan it with an open mind. And use your judgment and discernment — even in this still-controversial subject matter. I may be wrong, of course, on one or all of this, but first deal with the facts presented below and not go straight into ad hominems.
We have all been thoroughly propagandized / “brainwashed” for the whole last half-century in believing in a particular narrative as the sole “truth” about certain events.
I think that one can confidently declare that post-WWII Germany is now an Israeli-Jewish vassal state.
(I also prefer to avoid the loaded term, “Nazi,” in referring to such oppressive policies and tactics. That’s a whole ‘nother ball of wax right there.)
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//Berlin police chased down a young boy waving a Palestinian flag, ultimately arresting him. Footage shows the distraught-looking boy being taken away by a large number of riot police at the edge of a pro-Palestine protest in the German capital.//
Did you know that any symbology that has anything to do with the Nazis is banned in Germany?
The German penal code prohibits publicly denying the Holocaust and disseminating Nazi propaganda, both off- and online. This includes sharing images such as swastikas, wearing an SS uniform and making statements in support of Hitler.
It also places strict rules on how social media companies must moderate and report hate speech and threats. These hate-speech laws were tightened last year, after three far-right terror attacks in 2019 and early 2020 prompted German authorities to warn of increasing extremism.
“The waves of hatred are even more aggressive than before the pandemic,” said Christine Lambrecht, Germany’s minister of justice, in an April 2021 statement about the new regulations. “The agitation is very often right-wing extremist, racist and misogynist. It is a serious threat to our democratic society when people are attacked because of their name or their appearance — or are silenced because they express themselves politically, scientifically or socially.”
Germany’s laws on hate speech and Holocaust denial stand in sharp contrast to the United States, where the First Amendment limits the role of government in restricting speech. Germany’s speech laws are rooted in its history and national identity, said Robert Kahn, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law who studies German hate-speech law.
“Anybody who denies the Holocaust undermines the sense of post-1945 Germany,” Kahn said.
Authorities in Germany believe that fascist organizations could pose an existential threat, recalling how Hitler used the electoral system to gain influence until he had the power to abolish the country’s democracy entirely. “Right-wing extremism is the most vital threat that we face at the moment in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Stephan Kramer, chief of intelligence in the German state of Thuringia, said in Germany’s Neo-Nazis & the Far Right.
“It’s not just dangerous because we have blood on the sidewalks,” Kramer said. “It’s also dangerous because it goes to the roots of the tree, because it goes to the democratic system.”
Below is an introduction to the key laws governing hate speech and Holocaust denial in Germany.
So much so that many young Germans today are ignorant of their real history, or even just events or facts about WWII that are of mere historical or specialty interest. (I have witnessed this anecdotally.)
Did you know that as of 2019, there are now 19 countries in which so-called “holocaust denial” is a punishable crime? In Germany, for one, you can be thrown into prison for up to 5 years for this thought crime.
Did you know about this so-called “notorious neo-Nazi Ursula Haverbeck,” a 93-year-old German woman (2 years ago) who was finally jailed for saying that the German “death camps” were actually just “work camps” and being unapologetic for her stance?
Is there any other such “idea” that openly merits such disproportionately severe penalties in so many countries? Why is this such a unique “opinion” that requires (unlawful) legal protection in all these places?
Did you know that Germany has been paying reparations to “Holocaust” survivors for 70 years now? (At least, to their grateful lawyers, but who knows about the real “survivors” — per EMJ. Note the perpetuation of all details in the “official narrative” in that AP story.)
German guilt for Jewish suffering aggressively imposed on them by the rigged “Nuremberg trials” remains a perpetual source of money for some people. (See my previous article linked to below.)
Is this just? Is this justice?
Why is Jewish suffering unique among all others?
But don’t look to me for answers: Read, for instance, what American Jewish writer Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were in the Warsaw ghetto) has to say in defense of well-respected historian and Holocaust questioner David Irving, and as part of his direct criticism of the thriving “Holocaust Industry”:
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There is another factor at work. The claim of Holocaust uniqueness is a claim for Jewish uniqueness. Not the suffering of Jews but that Jews suffered is what made the Holocaust unique: the Holocaust is special because Jews are special. Thus Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, ridicules the Holocaust uniqueness claim as 'a distasteful secular version of chosenness'. For Anti Defamation League (ADL) head Abraham Foxman, the Holocaust 'was not simply one example of genocide but a near successful attempt on the life of God's chosen children and, thus, on God himself. And Elie Wiesel is no less vehement that Jews are unique than he is about the uniqueness of the Holocaust: 'Everything about us is different.'
Is it any wonder that the German police are no different to the Israeli Occupation Forces in their methods of violence and aggression against nonviolent people merely voicing support for Palestinians and Lebanese?
If you are genuinely in search for the truth on this general topic, one possible place to start exploring is here:
(Caution: This may prompt unpleasant cognitive dissonance in some who have been steeped in the narrative about the “Holocaust” and are terrified of looking more closely at this story disseminated across the world so effectively.)
But why is it of any import to know the truth and facts from the lies and deceptions?
Because (ungrammatical to start with this word, I know) this narrative has been exploited (often in an unspoken fashion) ad infinitum, ad nauseum to pre-empt and shut down criticism of any policies by State and the military industrial complex that have been heavily influenced, if not directed, by Jewish/Israeli interests and plans — that redound only to the harm, injury, and death to America and Americans. All paid for by our hard-earned tax monies.
(Need I expound on this? Think about all the Middle East wars of illegal invasion that have maimed and killed so many Americans and Iraqis, Libyans, Afghanis, etc. and created failed states after destroying functioning governments in Iraq and Libya. And the financial and weapons support for genocide in Gaza, and attacks in Southern Lebanon over the past several decades. Especially, but not exclusively, post-nine-eleven “attacks”.
Has the USA (and Americans) benefited from any of these murderous and destructive misadventures abroad?
Cui bono?)
(I’m only glad Substack isn’t based in Germany — I think. That these posts remain up and not banned or censored are tests of this assumption of non-partisanship on Substack, even if the named founders are clearly leftist-Democrat in their political persuasion.)
I disagree regarding calling them Nazis, but otherwise thank for your article and the extra video of the old lady I had not seen before!