Germany

A record number of Britons are switching their citizenship to Germany in the wake of Brexit. Some left Germany during the Third Reich period so are not the type Germany needs today.

By Carolyn Yeager

IN 2017, 14,984 TURKS BECAME CITIZENS OF GERMANY. Because of Brexit, the next highest number was Britons at 7,500 (half the number of Turks). After that comes those darn Poles (6,613), Italians (4,256) and Romanians (4,238).

That adds up to 112,200 new German citizens in 2017 alone. Note I did not say new Germans for they are not.

Remember Erika Steinbach? For more than 40 years a Christian Democratic Union  (CDU) member and friend of Angela Merkel, she was also a recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit for her tireless efforts on behalf of the cause of the German expellees. She has returned her award to Bavaria.

She did this in response to the General Secretary of "sister party" Christian Social Union (CSU) publicly describing the AfD as "brown dirt." (One may deduce a reference to 'Nazism' in it.)

Alice Weidel, leader of the AfD parliamentary faction, said:

I pay tribute to Mrs Steinbach for this step and thank her for her solidarity.

A photo of Gerhard Ittner from 2012, when he was extradicted to Germany from Spain.

By Carolyn Yeager

A NEW ARREST HAS BEEN MADE JUST LAST WEEK AND NO INFORMATION CAN BE GOTTEN from the “Secret Police” or any agencies about the reason for the arrest of Gerd Ittner, 60. It may be related to the fact that Gerd organized the remembrance rally in Dresden on February 13 that was shut down early because of an impromtu speech by Lady Michele Renouf, but that is only a guess on my part. Friends of Gerd who have sought information about his status since Saturday have not been successful.

Gerhard Ittner joins a long list of persecuted victims of the Federal Republic for the 'crime' of expressing a different opinion on the guilty parties in WWII than the official Allied narrative has it. The Allied narrative says Germany was totally at fault and committed egregious crimes; that is the narrative the Federal Republic embraces wholeheartedly, and even legally. Germany was originally forced to adopt this narrative, but now it enforces its own guilt with the greatest gusto.

Heiko Maas, Germany's new foreign minister, is deep into the cult of remembrance and quite willing to bow to Israel's needs.

By Carolyn Yeager

BOTH COUNTRIES' OFFICIAL POSITION, practically written in law, is that they have a 'special relationship' with the State of Israel.

We all know what Germany's 'special relationship' is derived from, but the USA? In my opinion, ours was totally built by Hollywood and Jewish media empires. (I think of the movie "Exodus" starring that teenage hearthrob Paul Newman which was incredibly impactful in the 1950's.) Unless they want to say that because Truman was the first to diplomatically recognize the new state of Israel in 1948, that cemented something forever and ever.

But no doubt the reason at bottom is the massive power base Jewry had established by that time in the United States.

by Carolyn Yeager

THE JEWISH WORLD IS CELEBRATING! The 89-year-old woman they have dubbed the “Nazi Grandma” has finally been incarcerated in a prison in western Germany for a two year term. According to Jewish news outlets, Ursula Haverbeck was picked up at her home in Vlotho, North-Rhine Westphalia by police on Monday and taken to the prison at nearby Bielefeld to begin serving her sentence.

I have been informed that her lawyer is already petitioning to have her released on grounds of health.

World Jewish Congress panel on antisemitism in June 2017, with Felix Klein expounding at far right.

By Carolyn Yeager

FELIX KLEIN, THE JEW WHO HOLDS A NEWLY CREATED GOVERNMENT POST tasked with fighting antisemitism, said in remarks to online newsite watson.de on Thursday that the AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) tolerated party members calling for a new “culture of remembrance”.

“I don’t want to say the AfD is antisemitic, per se, but it tolerates representatives who are demanding a new policy of remembrance,” Klein said. “They initiated this discussion about drawing a line (under the Holocaust) and that is very dangerous because it helps make anti-semitism presentable again.”

By Carolyn Yeager

A MEMBER OF THE ALTERNATIVE FUER DEUTSCHLAND PARTY  INTRODUCED A BILL TODAY IN THE GERMAN BUNDESTAG calling for the notorious Paragraph 130 of the German Criminal Code to be amended to include Germans under its protection.

"The AfD wants just one thing," said fraction member Jens Maier, presenting the bill to the parliament. "Namely that Germans are also protected from hate speech and mockery. Our draft bill is supposed to close a gap in the criminal code."

Here is a longer explanation that Maier posted on his Facebook page in German (automatically translated):

The AfD faction in the Bundestag with leaders Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland seated in front.

By Carolyn Yeager

Deutsche Welle has reported on a question raised by the opposition Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party as if it were the return of Adolf Hitler in the flesh. Their article is interjected with old stories and pictures representing euthanasia during the Third Reich and warnings of its resurrection by the AfD!

Parliamentary questions are a routine method of gaining information for lawmakers. In this instance, the query was broken down into five questions to Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, asking for data on disability by age, migratory background, and main cause, and for statistics on disabled children born to parents, "especially those resulting from [incestual] marriage within the family."

Heiko Maas wants to make a big splash as Germany's new foreign minister.

By Carolyn Yeager

STILL STUCK UNDER ANGELA MERKEL, GERMANY IS GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE. The only silver lining is that this new government is the weakest it's ever been. It may not last out the 3.5 years left to it.

The dearth of talent from which to form a cabinet is astonishing. The tired old faces have been pushed out (except for Merkel's), but the new ones are at best uninspiring. At worst, like with the the very slight and unimposing former justice minister Heiko Maas as the new Foreign Minister, it's hard not to laugh out loud. Where is the gravitas a foreign minister should have?