Rembrandt Clancy has translated and annotated a speech by Michael Mannheimer that was given at a rally for WÜGIDA (the PEGIDA affiliate in Würzburg) on January 5.

WÜGIDA, Würzburg: Michael Mannheimer’s Speech

Introduction and translation by Rembrandt Clancy

5 January 2015

Original Video Source: YouTube

The video below presents Michael Mannheimer’s highly charged speech in Würzburg. He is a dynamic and spontaneous speaker interacting with his audience. This event is about collective survival, for the underlying theme is the demographic crisis in Germany and its political consequences. It finds a highpoint in the demonstrators’ call to resistance, which Mannheimer answers with his reference to Article 20, paragraph 4 of the Basic Law, (Constitution of Germany), a call to resistance against a remote and traitorous elite who are in the process of “extinguishing us Germans.”

[The full transcript of this video is provided later on in this post.]

In his speech Michael Mannheimer quotes three major German politicians whose words in the 1980s expressed serious misgivings about the effects of unrestricted immigration into Germany, especially from Turkey, and the violent consequences which can be expected to accompany the eventual demographic shift. One of these figures is Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974-1982, who said this in 1982:

“I will not have one more Turk cross the border.”

Michael Mannheimer then asks the demonstrators why these same politicians are remaining silent today instead of making common cause with PEGIDA, whose concerns are no different from those to whom the outcome of unrestricted immigration from Muslim lands was evident over thirty years ago. Just one day after his WÜGIDA speech a partial answer to the question appeared in an article entitled “No to PEGIDA” published by the BILD-Zeitung. In it, Helmut Schmidt closes ranks with 79 other members of the German elite, including the neo-Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, all of whom condemned PEGIDA. To highlight this part of Michael Mannheimer’s speech more thoroughly, we translated the relevant excerpt from a contribution Michael Stürzenberger made to Politically Incorrect on 16 January 2015.

The former Federal Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, is a good example of someone who has made a complete about-face. As recently as 2004, he considered it a “mistake” that Germany in the early 1960s “brought guest-workers into the country from foreign cultures” (foreign cultures = from Islamic countries, mainly Turkey). In 2005 he was convinced that “we have overdone it with the immigration of people from completely different cultural worlds”. Seven million foreigners in Germany “constitutes a flawed development”, he said.

And now, fully Nazi: “The immigration of people from Eastern Anatolia or from black Africa does not solve the problem, but creates only an additional, enormous problem.” In 2008 he wrote in his book “Who wishes to increase the number of Muslims in Germany, accepts an increasing danger to our domestic peace.” So far so good! But what does the same man prattle seven years later about the PEGIDA citizens’ movement, which have taken on the same problems themselves, since for years the politicians have ignored them out of complete irresponsibility?

To the BILD-Zeitung, which asked every celebrity who happens along for a statement on the oh so “xenophobic”, “rabble-rousing” and “racist” PEGIDA, he came forth with the following in accordance with the Zeitgeist so as not to drop out of the forcibly co-ordinated phalanx of hypocrites:

“The Pegida protests appeal to mindless prejudices, to hatred of foreigners and intolerance. But that is not Germany. The perspective of our history and of economic sense tells us: Germany must not reject refugees and asylum seekers. Germany must remain receptive to the world and tolerant. Therefore, a resounding NO to Pegida!”

Helmut Schmidt, following the old Adenauer adage, What do I care about my prattling from yesterday?”, now strikes the decent citizens on the street, who feel exactly the same as he expressed it himself years ago, as a traitor who applies a dagger thrust in the back. Is it a question of old-age senility, or is it a grave lack of character, of cowardice, so as not to be excluded from the naive-Gutmensch infested mainstream society? […] Thus the old Chancellor seamlessly enters the cabinet of horrors of the wretched dissemblers…

It is completely unprincipled to prattle about such diffuse rubbish instead of factually coming to terms with what is actually important about PEGIDA. A look at the 19 points of PEGIDA helps enormously. A former Federal Chancellor would actually have to be able to summon up as much intellect.

Michael Mannheimer draws attention in his speech to a statistical projection which places ethnic Germans in a minority position in their own country within about 25 years. As to why this is the case, and as a pertinent background to the speech itself, we present immediately below a translation of one of his articles entitled Islamisation of Germany: Millions of Abortions; Millions of Immigrants; Coincidence? (18 December 2014). With this short piece, the author displays a keen awareness of the relationship between a successful ideological attack on the reproductive infrastructure of society and the large population movements we observe today. But rather than focus on an unconscious or “natural” demographic decline as such, he address something new which is added to the “appalling depopulation” characteristic of Oswald Spengler’s declining civilisations. He asks if the German elites are not at the highpoint of a deliberately planned reinforcement of the demographic decline of their own people. Self-depopulation as policy is perhaps unique in history, hence it is of value to keep in mind, for the sake of contrast, that the Roman elites, who themselves were no strangers to hedonism, adopted desperate measures, such as the lex de maritandis ordinibus (the Julian marriage laws of 18 BC), in a vain top-down attempt to stem their demographic decline.

Here is Michael Mannheimer’s short article:

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