German Intelligence Agency Brands Leading Politician Hans-Georg Maaßen a “Right-Wing Extremist” for Criticising Globalism, the Green Party and Mass Immigration
I know I have written a lot about German politics recently. I promise to return very soon to other themes, but what is happening in the Federal Republic right now is very important and it deserves attention. While I have a small readership, I must do what I can to help the rest of the world understand the state of politics in my country. We have, quite simply, descended into a DDR-lite regime in the space of less than ten years, without anybody noticing and with the full collusion of the media and the government. I am starting to get a little bit worried.
At the start of January, I wrote about the WerteUnion (‘Values Union’), a small faction within the CDU, and the plans of its co-founder Hans-Georg Maaßen to break this faction off into its own party. With this announcement, Maaßen has called the entire fury of the media-political-industrial-complex down upon himself, because he has pledged that the WerteUnion will cooperate with Alternative für Deutschland. Maaßen is not just anybody; he’s a prominent CDU politician who presided over the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) under Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2018. Yesterday, the media reported that the BfV has classified Maaßen, its former President, as a “Right-wing extremist”.
This is a direct response to Maaßen’s latest political project. As a party the WerteUnion does not even exist yet, it has no members in the Parliament, and it is highly uncertain whether it’ll succeed in any elections. Nevertheless, the current president of the BfV, Thomas Haldenwang (CDU), has taken enforcement measures against Maaßen for the sin of even daring to found a party that threatens to peel votes from the union ahead of the elections in Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg. This is another step to criminalise the German political opposition, and that is bad enough, but it is only the beginning.
First, some boring background:. For a while now, scurrilous media reports have been circulating about Maaßen’s alleged ties to the ‘Reichsbürger‘ scene. This is a diffuse Right-leaning movement that is roughly analogous to the ‘sovereign citizens’ of the Anglophone world, and probably even more harmless. Its central contention is that the founding of the Federal Republic was in some way invalid, and that the old German Reich continues to exist on some theoretical legal plane. In 2022, there was a brief media hyperventilation when federal police announced that Reichsbürger in the circles of Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuß had been planning a coup d’état. The police had apparently had Reuß and his associates under surveillance for a long time, and finally arrested 25 of them, including Reuß himself. Nothing is more laughable than the proposition that any of these naïve and eccentric people posed any danger to the German state at all. Nevertheless, there is a great hunger for Right-wing enemies of the state, and the Reichsbürger alas are willing to play this role even at great personal cost to themselves. (It is also important to note that the Reichsbürger are extensively infiltrated by the BfV; we don’t know, and may never know, to what degree their allegedly seditious discussions were steered or even provoked by agents provocateurs of the state.)
Last year, Maaßen requested through his attorney that the BfV reveal what materials it had collected tying him to the Reichsbürger scene. It has now responded with a 20-page letter, revealing the unbelievably extensive surveillance it has been conducting on Maaßen’s social media accounts and press statements. Maaßen has posted this remarkable document online. All the material it has collected is publicly available, but that’s not the point. These are associations, statements and activities that the BfV regard as potentially indicative of unconstitutional and thus illegal political views.
Below I provide extensive translated excerpts from the letter, because the evidence it provides for what is considered out-of-bounds in German politics today is just unbelievable. Criticising the Government makes you a Right-wing extremist. Criticising the Greens in particular makes you a Right-wing extremist. Opposing mass migration makes you a Right-wing extremist. Linking to the wrong websites makes you a Right-wing extremist. Doing any of these things can attract the attention of the political police.
We start with some of the evidence BfV has collected tying Maaßen to the Reichsbürger:
In fulfilment of your client’s request for information… [we] inform you that the BfV has stored the following data on your client in connection with the matter you have indicated – namely, a possible connection of your client to the “Reichsbürger” scene:
– The Right-wing extremist Bernhard Schaub mentioned your client in a letter dated February 24th 2020 to Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss on the subject of the “continued existence of the German Reich” and “German sovereignty”. In this letter, Mr. Schaub expressed the opinion that Dr. Maaßen “appears to be a staunch republican”.
– According to media reports… a person associated with the group around Heinrich XIII Prince Reuß is said to have shared “videos of Hans-Georg Maaßen” on his Facebook page.
– Your client commented on the group surrounding Heinrich XIII Prince Reuß… [H]e argued, among other things, that the enforcement measures against suspected members of Heinrich XIII Prince Reuß’s association were disproportionate.
– In an article written by your client… he stated that there was some evidence suggesting that these [Reichsbürger]… had been “used for a PR coup”.
– In a tweet from your client dated January 2nd 2023, he expressed the following opinion: “After all, the federal Government was able to arrest 25 Reichsbürger with over 3,000 police officers and dozens of journalists. The greatest threat to internal security is neither Reichsbürger nor violent migrants, but the incompetent and unwilling politicians who govern us.”
To summarise: Maaßen is under suspicion of having ties to the Reichsbürger because some of the people around Preuß shared videos of his speeches and spoke well of him, and also because Maaßen does not think the Reichsbürger are nearly as important as the security services are making them out to be. The Stasi also used vague associations like these to detect political criminals. In fact, the BfV surveillance appears to be even more extreme:
The historian and former director of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison memorial, Hubertus Knabe… has expressed his shock at the surveillance of… Hans-Georg Maassen…
“I am very disturbed to see how extensively the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has investigated a CDU politician… I have never seen such a complete overview of political activities and statements in the Stasi files of prominent DDR dissidents.”
The Reichsbürger stuff is merely the tip of the iceberg, because the BfV has disclosed that it is interested in a wide variety of Maaßen’s statements addressing many other topics:
Your client commented on various current political issues in columns and articles:
For example, in the essay written with his co-author Johannes Eisleben entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of Post-Nationalism’… your client warned of “undemocratic, totalitarian supranational systems” and “a new totalitarianism”, which has the goal of allying “socialist and globalist forces”. This essay is judged by academics to use anti-Semitic codes and ciphers …
This is particularly outrageous. The allegedly antisemitic article was originally published in English; you can read it for yourself here. Its primary sin is that it speaks of “globalists” and “elites”, which our betters allege to be code-words for Jews. The controversy surrounding this article flared up after the Fridays for Future activist Luisa Neubauer accused Maaßen of antisemitism and journalists began sifting through his recent work to find proof. To be a Right-wing extremist surveilled by the BfV, you just need a Green activist to speak ill of you.
In fact, to be a Right-wing extremist, all you have to do is criticise the Greens:
In a column on www.weltwoche.ch on September 12th 2022, your client made the following comments on the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Party, among others:
“How will the Green fanatics deal with people who – like me – don’t agree to a future where they’re only allowed to cycle and use the kilowatt hours allocated them, but who want to decide for themselves how they live? Will they be sent to de-radicalisation camps for re-education, or will mere exclusion suffice as it has until now? The fanaticism and ruthlessness of the Greens scares me and reminds me of the fanaticism of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge.”
Actually, just accusing the socialists in Government of being socialists seems to be enough to make you a Right-wing extremist:
In addition, various articles by your client have appeared in the magazine Die Weltwoche… [including an] online article entitled ‘Chemotherapy for Germany’… of November 10th 2023. In this piece, your client made the following comments:
“This is how one must interpret their [Olaf Scholz’s and Nancy Faeser’s] behaviour [with regard to refugee and migration policy] – they want the collapse of German society in order to build a neo-socialist social system on its ruins.”
Opposing transgender insanity is enough to make you a Right-wing extremist:
Furthermore, it is recorded here that your client… at an event… on May 1st 2023 in St. Gangloff… made the following comments about people in Africa:
“You know, if you go to some backward village in Africa, you might still be able to sell the people glass beads for lots and lots of gold, which they will give you. But to convince people that there are three genders or ten or a hundred genders, I don’t think even backward, culturally backward people are that naive and infantile.”
Making incisive remarks about the exclusive and corrupt party cartel system that currently has Germany in a vice-grip is enough to make you a Right-wing extremist:
At the general meeting of the WerteUnion on June 10th 2023 in Erfurt, your client said the following about democratic parties and the party landscape in general, among other things:
“And then we are dealing with a party landscape where you can say it’s a cartel, or are, as they used to say in the East, bloc parties. Because if you vote Green, you get Green, if you vote [SPD or Left], you get Green, and if you vote [FDP or liberal], you get Green, and as I now understand Mr. Merz in his latest statements, he also wants to submit to the Greens and form a coalition with the Greens. In my view, this party cartel must be broken up.”
Opposing mass migration makes you a Right-wing extremist:
Furthermore, your client… held discussions with or was interviewed by the publicist Alexander Wallasch… On February 20th 2023, your client asked his interview partner Mr. Wallasch the following questions on the topic of ‘Flight and migration’:
“Why has this mass migration to Germany been taking place for years, which does not serve to protect refugees and is not in the interests of the German people? Why are the SPD, Greens, FDP and CDU/CSU allowing hundreds of thousands and millions of foreigners into the country when a blind person with a walking stick can recognise that these people will never, ever integrate into our society?”
In a conversation/interview with Mr. Wallasch on July 5th 2023, your client commented on the German Government’s migration policy as follows:
“The fact that there are these riots and uprisings by migrants in Germany and in France is not fate, but is the result of a targeted ideological migration policy of the political Left. They want a social transformation. They reject the nation state and want to cement the political balance of power by choosing the people of the state themselves.”
Observing the profound cultural incompatibilities of many migrants makes you a Right-wing extremist:
In the interview programme entitled Strategie Für Deutschland – Migrationspolitik, which was published on April 27th 2023… your client made the following comments:
“What we are now experiencing here in Germany and in Europe with the high number of migrants, is that we are bringing in people from other cultures who have been socialised very differently, who have learned how to resolve conflicts very differently. We sit down at the table, we talk, we talk and we talk, and we come to a conclusion, and afterwards we shake hands and then part company. We try to find a solution. It’s different in other cultures. In Japanese culture it is similar to ours. In Arab cultures, there is also a completely different system due to, let’s say, the understanding of the roles of men and women and also the understanding of the roles of those at the top and those at the bottom of society. And now I come to the [knife attacks]. Because violence is also seen as an effective means of conflict resolution. If people come to us with this kind of socialisation, have never been socialised here, don’t know our rules, on the contrary, despise the rules they see here because they think the rules from home are more correct, because that’s how they were socialised, then we have a clash of cultures. A clash of cultures, which I have to say we experience here every day. The young people who come to us don’t know our norms, are socialised very differently, bring their understanding of values, their conflict resolution mechanisms to Germany, and we see the consequences every day in stabbings.”
Criticising German state media, as I do constantly here and as millions of Germans do every day, is enough to make you a Right-wing extremist:
In an interview… published on the Hallo Meinung YouTube channel… on February 24th 2023, your client said:
“I am a big critic of the state media. I don’t call them public media anymore, because they are state media. Public media only describes, I would say, the legal status. … State media are not organised under civil law, but under public law. And yet they are state media. The state media have now become Government media and mainstream media. They are not directed against governments and those in power as objects of criticism and critical scrutiny; rather, they criticise the critics of Government. They turn against the opposition, that is the enemy they fight. I now see the state media as a threat to our free and democratic order.”
Calling migrants who are demanding “death to the Jews” antisemitic is apparently also Right-wing extremism, although this is confusing, given that the BfV appear to believe Maaßen is himself an antisemite:
On April 9th 2023, your client posted the following comment in a tweet on a video showing a rally with an unmanageably large crowd:
“Foreigners shouting antisemitic slogans ‘Death to the Jews, death to Israel!’ in Berlin, and the political-media establishment simply looks the other way and does nothing. This is no longer the Germany I worked for and want to keep safe.”
Attacking the slimy sea-rescue NGOs that ferry migrants to Germany is of course also Right-wing extremism:
Reports referring to statements made by your client in January 2023 regarding a post by sea rescue activist Axel Steier: Your client had described Steier’s statements as “racial doctrines in the opposite direction” as well as a “human farming programme”… and wrote the following tweet on January 1th 2023…: “We can be thankful for Mr. Steier. He feels safe enough to say what the driving forces in the political media are pushing for. Eliminatory #racism against whites and the burning desire for #Germany to die.”
Here at least we have something that might count as minimally Right-leaning, namely an indirect allusion to the Great Replacement.
Of course, if other alleged “Right-wing extremists” like your work or retweet it, that makes you a Right-wing extremist:
In addition, we have gathered various posts and tweets from persons or groups known to be Right-wing extremists, which disseminated posts and tweets from your client or made positive comments about your client:
A video by Martin Sellner with the title ‘Maaßen’s message: “Say what you think!” – Patriotic Resistance in the CDU?’, published on February 17th 2019… At the time, Mr. Sellner was the leading figure and main mouthpiece of the demonstrated Right-wing extremist movement Identitarian Movement Germany (IBD).
Positive statements about your client made by the influencer Oliver Janich on Telegram on February 6th, March 2nd and April 7th 2023, by the activist Nikolai Nerling on Telegram on January 23rd, February 8th and March 7th 2023, by the neo-Nazi Tommy Frenck on September 11th, 13th, 14th and 16th 2021… and an article on the Right-wing extremist website www.pi-news.net, where an interview with your client on June 12th 2023 was positively received.
In addition, other generally approving or positive statements by Right-wing extremists are known from media reports, e.g. by Björn Höcke… who is quoted as saying that there are “many interfaces” between your client’s political programme and the AfD.
I’ve tried to be representative with these excerpts. I have not picked out the most ridiculous material to make the BfV look silly; I have also not excluded troubling stuff that would make Maaßen look bad. This really is what they’re concerned about – a boomer-generation conservative with views typical of millions of Germans. It is absolutely insane to me that this is enough to attract the attention of the political police.
The BfV was founded to defend our constitution against anti-democratic political forces. It has now gone completely rogue, actively subverting what remains of our democratic system in a campaign to criminalise opinions even slightly misaligned with establishment orthodoxies. It is a blessing that it has but a small fraction of the staff and resources available to its Stasi predecessors. For now anyway, its surveillance is almost surely confined to prominent politicians and media figures, though I guess there is an outside chance that eugyppius also has a file at the BfV. That is quite clearly the kind of thing they want you to be worried about. Maaßen’s attorney, remember, only asked for material relating the Reichsbürger. The BfV released vastly more items, very likely in the knowledge that Maaßen would make this material public. This is political intimidation directed by domestic intelligence services at Maaßen specifically, and at dissatisfied Germans more generally.
I can’t escape the feeling that we crossed a threshold in 2021 with the mass vaccination campaign. I have never been so terrified of my Government as I was then, and it has never fully abandoned that first manifestation of aggression and steely authoritarianism. In the coming months and years, we will see whether the establishment can succeed in pulling up the drawbridge to exclude the rabble from any say whatsoever in how they are governed.
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The failing socialist/social democrat parties within the Europe know the writing is on the wall. However they just cannot bear to give up power and are following the US Democrat ‘playbook’ as they are trying to delegitimise every aspect of normal opposition.
They are in denial of course. The anger their stupid policies have created (net zero, immigration, Covid authoritarianism, destruction of free speech) will soon reach a tipping point and nothing they can do will stop it. It’s not going to be pretty, but they had it coming. I for one won’t shred a single tear.
Following the playbook of the US democrats is pretty obvious in Germany because all present government parties are programmatically aligned with them and even copy their rethoric. Most recently, Özdemir (naturalised Turk) accusing protesting farmers of trying to stage a coup.
Given what we know now about things, I doubt that very much.
I suspect, like most security forces, they were set up first and foremost to protect those in power from their own populations. In other words to make sure that the pretence of democracy doesn’t actually turn into actual democracy.
We need to remind people that “Right-wing” in the dictionary just means “Conservative”, wanting to preserve the historical traditions and society of your own country.
“Far-right” just means “Very Conservative”.
“Right-wing Extremist” just means “Extremely Conservative”.
What’s wrong with that?
I was talking to an acquaintance the other day about Giorgia Meloni. “Oh she’s far right”. I don’t think this chap is particularly a lefty, just a young person who has been exposed to years of this stuff. I asked him to name “far right” things that Meloni had done, and to define what “far right” meant. I think it’s meant to imply to people that the “far right” person will send blackshirts onto the streets, suspend freedom of speech and make their political opponents disappear or cancel them – like some Latin American dictator from the 70s. Actually it sounds like most “liberal democracies” are starting to qualify…
I had a similar experience when back in 2016 people at work were asking me if I was going to vote to stay in or leave the EU. ——–In a room of about a dozen of my colleagues I asked “Who is the President of the United States” They all shouted “Obama” in unison. —-So then I asked “Who is the President of the EU”—————-Not one of them uttered a sound.
Go on then, who is it?
Wrong syntax – “Who are they”. Not because of wokism but because there are at least five.
Back in 2016 there were 5 Presidents of various institutions. Perhaps the most well know was Juncker, currently replaced with Von Der Leyen. ——-But the point I am making is that people at my workplace were going to possibly be voting for the EU when they knew nothing whatsoever about it. ——-I didn’t and still don’t have to know because I never had any intention of voting to remain and still do not.
I was really asking that question to see if I got any answers, and ofcourse I never received a single one.
The EU still doesn’t have a president, especially none which could be compared with the president of the USA¸ because the EU is still a confederation of states and not a federal state. The highest gremium of the EU is the European Council which is composed of the heads of the governments of the EU member states.
Your missing the point. ———I was asking a question? None of my colleagues knew the answer. It was they who had no clue what they were voting for, not me. ———–I would NEVER vote to be inside the EU. I don’t care who their president is or isn’t
The idea is to make right wing thought illegitimate or even criminal. ——–All of polite society are to be Liberal Progressives or there must be something wrong with them. In the past we had conservatives like Thatcher but those days are gone, and “We are all socialists now” ——I think it was Nancy Pelosi who uttered those scary words.
Please do not put a capital letter at the beginning of the word conservative when referring to a political philosophy. It confuses people into thinking the similarly branded political party has some connection with it.
Excellent link to the original essay. I don’t think The Great Replacement is just a conspiracy theory, or they would’ve stopped it by now.
The Germans seem to be heading down a very dark road very quickly and one hopes that they can halt this trajectory. It seems that anyone who has anything remotely interesting to say these days is a Nazi. To be suspicious of centralized power and the role of the corporations is far-Right. The carbon agenda isn’t an anti-corporate movement is the darkest of corporate gambits for complete control. The useful idiots who go along with this agenda are too consumed by their emotions to be saved. This is why they gave a free pass to big pharma – their fear of death made them submit to irrationality and it is for them now like all their dignity has gone.
Well I don’t place a lot of stock into polls and I think their results are dubious, to say the least, even if they do confirm my bias. However, I’ve a feeling in my waters that these polls are at least trending in the right direction; ”A majority of Germans oppose the government’s radical immigration law, which will allow up to 2.5 million foreigners to obtain German citizenship in time for the federal election in 2025. The poll, which was conducted by Insa on behalf of the Protestant News Agency, found that 51 percent of Germans are opposed to the new law, with only 32 percent supporting it. Not only is the law opposed by the majority of Germans, but they have a 19-point lead over supporters. Another 14 percent said they did not know how they felt about the law, and 3 percent had no answer for pollsters. However, arguably an even more devastating poll from the Security Report 2024, conducted by the Allensbach Institute, shows that the population’s overall approval of the federal government’s current refugee policy is extremely low, with 65 percent of those surveyed saying that they did not consider their policy to be correct. According to the security… Read more »
This is what family reunification looks like. You can see how fast the demographics are going to change. This guy had his wife and nine daughters flown over. I’m sure I sound totally ‘ultra-right’ when I ask the obvious question; were there no safe Muslim countries between Afghanistan and France?
I wonder if they’re going to keep going until they have a boy… 😮
”It took twenty-eight months for Shir Said Kamali, an Afghan refugee in Alençon (Orne), to reunite with his wife and nine daughters. Today, the family lives in precarious but “safe” conditions. Above all, girls can return to school and regain hope.
Alongside the family, the Afghan association of France and some supportive compatriots. “Our priority today is to find him suitable accommodation,” says Chela Noori, its president.”
https://www.fdesouche.com/2024/02/01/apres-plus-de-deux-ans-de-combat-cet-afghan-refugie-a-alencon-a-retrouve-sa-femme-et-ses-neuf-filles/
Some background information: Until the first Red/ Green coalition of 1998 (Schröder), German citizenship was based on ius sanguinis (Latin for right of the blood). This means that ordinarily, people where considered Germans when their parents had been German. This was then extended to the first round of legally resident foreigners using the exact same argument: They’re permanently living in Germany, hence, they must be allowed to vote because anything else is not democratic.
This means that the present round of Red-Greens are abolishing their own law supposed to fix the lack of democratic participation problem because they nowadays believe it still wasn’t democratic enough.
The next 2-3 years will be very humiliating in terms of learning the limits of our own power and the supression exerted upon us. There is a film starring Orson Welles called The Lady of Shang Hai. And there is a famous scene where he tells her of the shark feeding frenzy. Where intitially they are drawn by the blood and then they become more ravenous so they start attacking each other. By the end they are so frenzied with bloodlust that they start biting their own stomachs. The simple logic and dynamics of the system show us that we are at this point.
The natives are better accustomed to the weather. That’s about as positive as I can get about the situation.
I don’t know. All it takes is the replacement of native populations, a fake pandemic or two, the degradation of industry, massive increase in prices, the destruction of farming, fomenting universal wars, the criminalisation of Christianity, the denial of fundamental realities of biology, and the undermining of democracy… and the far right are there to exploit it and claim there’s a conspiracy.
Thank you – a most revealing and instructive article.
People put up with loss of pay for 3 decades because of the expansion of credit. That got removed Like Frank Zappa said, the illusion of freedom will contunue as long as it is profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will pull down the scenery, pull back the curtains, move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the thater.
You need to understand how the predator class see you at this moment in time. It isn’t good. When I say you need to understand it I mean you need to comprehend it because any hope of defeating it relies on this. They are coming from a weak position, on their last legs. That is the most important thing to understand.
Cornered rats leaping for throats. No holds barred. I hope you’re correct and this is their last gasp.
We talk like this false peace will go on foerver as if the most difficult things to resolve are silly political disputes. You find out in tough times who the real serious people are. And those who might want to lean on you. I look at England compared to other countries in terms of preparedness. We don’t have the civil nuclear war infrastructure that some countries have. We can pretend that we are rough and ready and we don’t need gay nuclear shelters but they do make a difference in terms of the survial of the population. Makes me sad the lack of a covenant in this country.
Can you imagine the overthrow of such thinkingand what it would amount to,. If you are getting a glimpse of it then continue it further. The weights and measures brigade the real attack on our integrity. Either you grasp it now or a sorry fate awaits you.
Always remember that the current national governments of the West broke every single article of the Nuremberg Code.
We see who the real extremists are.
Meanwhile, the trial of Reiner Fuellmich has started. Arrested in Mexico without a warrant, and shipped to Germany in cuffs. The charges seem confected and the tactics are underhanded.
He’s come out swinging though. I wish him well.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/on-the-first-day-of-his-trial-reinhard
https://elsaiselsa.substack.com/cp/141280347
I remember driving through the dreadful former Yugoslavia in about 1984. I had been in Belgrade briefly and had noticed how there was a lot of people going about but there was no hubbub (to any Germans hubbub is the noise of a healthy bunch of people living a life of freedom and all talking at the same time). The people were remarkably quiet all going around in the doldrums, and no wonder. I was never so glad to cross the Austrian border and return to the western world where everything was clean and modern. I went in to station for fuel and a lady was wiping up the footprints behind me from my snowy feet. —-It was a breath of fresh air. ———-I am sorry for the people of Germany if they have forgotten what freedom means and are allowing themselves to return to how things were in the soviet countries and old East Germany, where people used to jump over the wall in one direction only. From Tyranny to Freedom. From Poverty to Prosperity. ——-From East to West. ————-You must stop allowing yourselves to be dictated to by politicians who have hijacked the environment for their communism and… Read more »
There isn’t much freedom in Germany. Everyone is free to believe in all officially sanctioned truths and free to be convinced to “live in the best Germany of all times” (something our current crop of prominent politicians keep repeating). Anything beyond is to be handled by police and secret service. The main difference to GDR is that people are allowed to travel to foreign countries by default. Confining Germans to Germany is a special measure for those who might otherwise “bring the state into disrepute”. This can be done by executive order and will cause the police to check passengers of international trains or flights one-by-one to make sure that those who are supposed to be confined to Germany don’t leave it nevertheless.
You are referring to NOW.—- But after the war Germany was clearly the most prosperous country in Europe. Not bogged down with having an army, and with the incentive to rebuild the country, they seemed to get on with that and tried to forget the past. From what I saw working in Germany in the 80’s Germany was a fantastic place and thriving. But remember this was still West Germany. ——Perhaps it was after the wall came down that East Germany started to drag down the country with its communist influence. But no doubt you will have more knowledge of that. All I can see is a once thriving country bogged down with energiewende absurdity and all of the leftist crap that has infested the West.
German rearmament occurred in the 1950s and Germany used to have a standing army of 598,000 soldiers which would have grown to about 2 million on war footing. Not being bogged down with having an army is also a strange way to word Being prohibited from having one by the occupying forces or, as Ludendorff once worded it, Germans no longer have to right of armed service to their country. At the beginnig of the 1980, Germany used to have a chancellor (Helmut Schmidt) who – somewhat sucessfully – opposed the NATO plans for the next war in Europe which were roughly Let the Bundeswehr fight a losing rear-guard action while the foreign forces withdraw as quickly as possibly, followed by turning Germany into a radioactive desert in order to delay the Russian advance towards the much more important countries to the west of it. He was then quickly disposed and replaced with a more palatable candidate (Helmut Kohl). Things have arguably gotten a lot worse since the boombabies have taken over because they were the first generation thoroughly brainwased into being anti-German in all of their ways due to a concerted re-education program supposed to have this effect. Freedom… Read more »
I said “bogged down with an army” in the sense that an army costs a lot of money. But when you start 2 wars you cannot expect countries to want to not “prohibit you” from having an army. ——-After all are we to risk a Fourth Reich as well? ——-“Freedom this ain’t” ?———If you can tell where in the world where is freedom then. The problem has never been Germans. It has always been politicians.
“German Intelligence”Now there’s a contradiction in terms!
To think it was such proud and efficient world leading nation
How does the administration work in Germany? “the current president of the BfV, Thomas Haldenwang (CDU)” suggests that either bureaucrats declare their political allegances or the governing party(ies) appoint their own members to head up government departments including the security services.
Either situation is dangerous.
In the UK we all remember how the then head of MI6 was keen to do the bidding of the Blair government. In my view the standing and reliability of the security services has not recovered and their efficiency remains in doubt. I think it was Skarlett who did this and I think he was in office when Dr Kelly died / was killed.
The CDU isn’t part of the currently governing coalition. Apart from that, as a matter of course, everyone who wants to make a career working for the state in Germany is obviously member of one of the established state parties (CDU/CSU, SPD and Bündnis 90/ Grüne and meanwhile also Die Linke, the former PDS aka the former SED). People who don’t declare their political allegiance are considered suspicious as its conjectured that the only reason why anyone wouldn’t is that he has a reason to hide them, ie, because he’s a member or sympathizer of the legal-but-shunned (and semi-informally heavily repressed) “Nazi parties.”