Monthly Archives: November 2021

The New ‘Good’ and the New Evil

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We are approaching Endgame after more than a hundred years of the Culture Wars. In the essay below MC picks his way through the grotesque highlights of what is currently underway.

Most modern medicine assumes that God does not exist, and that mankind (‘experts’) must therefore control medical ethics in order to ensure that doctors and others with an interest in medicine do not sacrifice their ethical integrity in order to either maximize their wealth from an exceedingly profitable industry, nor pursue greater knowledge at the expense of the health of their patients.

In 1947, following cruel and murderous experimentation by seemingly normal doctors on inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, international law was laid down concerning human experimentation, coercion and informed consent.

These laws are now being violated on a daily basis by politicians, doctors, nurses and health administrators who advocate and enforce the COVID-19 vaccine. This is not new; it is an old, old story. We are back to bleeding, scoring and purging, leeches and mercury; the medicine of barbers and barbarity.

The Covid vaccine is experimental, and under the Nuremburg and Helsinki LAWS, it cannot be mandated. YOU cannot be forced to violate your bodily integrity — even if granny is in danger.

But granny is not in danger, at least in any statistical sense any more than she usually is, and if she were to take the correct prophylactic treatment to raise her zinc and vitamin D levels then her chances of surviving a CV19 attack are much improved. Unfortunately, it seems, the Powers That Be in medicine and politics want her dead, so they are withholding the real science and the real medicine from her. Granny dead from Covid is a bounty that can be collected…

The ‘science’ as dictated by the government/Big Pharma alliance is to leave CV19 granny alone until her lips turn blue, then put her on a killer ventilator until she dies. For this, a hospital gets a substantial government grant. She is a useless eater — Aktion T4 for her. Do we inject her with phenol, gas her, or put a plastic bag over her head? No, we withhold crucial and effective treatment and inject her with an experimental gene therapy — and this is ethically acceptable?

We are so, so ignorant, we don’t realize that although all the names have changed, the methods have not.

On the whole, the billionaires who are financing this modern Holodomor are stupid frightened individuals who believe in a humanist-based cult whereby:

  • There are too many people on the planet.
  • The planet is being poisoned by too much ‘carbon’
  • That the ultra-rich are entitled to rule over all other groups and use all available resources.
  • That Islam, by its ultra-controlling influence, can be used to divide and rule dangerous ‘Christian’ populations.
  • That fossil fuels can be replaced by ‘batteries’ (where does the electricity come from to charge the batteries?).
  • That solar and wind power can provide enough energy for the remnant population to survive.
  • That putting God at the centre of the Constitution in 1776-1784 had no effect on the subsequent rise of the American Dream; it was purely a coincidence.
  • And that removing God from society is therefore no problem and will not turn the dream into a nightmare.

It is difficult for us to understand the role of God in society, for without God, societies are basically two-tier master/slave societies where the masters work hard to keep the peons in abject slavery.

In the historical British feudal system, the serfs were largely village idiots, kept in a state of abject poverty and malnutrition. The role of the then-Church was to perpetuate the system by removing any intelligent children at an early age into the cloisters for special indoctrination. Wise lords of the manor also took bright children into their service, thus removing leaders from the peasant body.

Britain at the time did not have a skin colour problem; everybody was white. Even in my childhood 1950s England was overwhelmingly white, I had seen non-white people because I had travelled to Singapore as a very young ‘britbrat’ (child of armed forces personnel), but to others in my class at school, they were an abstract from the pages of National Geographic and Hollywood.

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Waiting for the Corona Boxcar

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A reader came across this 1938 speech in which key terms have been modified to reflect current events:

From Das Schwarze Korps [SS Newspaper], 24 November 1938

“So, we are now going to have a total solution to the Covid-19 question. The programme is clear. It reads: total separation, total segregation! What does this mean? It does not only mean the total exclusion of the Unvaccinated from the economic system… It means much more! No Vaccinated person can be expected to live under the same roof as The Unvaccinated. The Unvaccinated must be chased out of our houses and our residential districts and made to live in rows or blocks of houses where they can keep to themselves and come into contact with The Vaccinated as little as possible. They must be clearly identified.”

(Benno Müller-Hill, Murderous Science, New York: CSHL Press, 1998, p.48)

Gerald Grosz: The Vax Doesn’t Work!

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Gerald Grosz is an Austrian politician for the BZÖ (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, Alliance for the Future of Austria) and the FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, Austrian Freedom Party). In the following video from an Austrian TV talk show, Mr. Grosz — who, like a good citizen, agreed to be “vaccinated” — complains vehemently that the medical establishment has now admitted that the experimental mRNA treatment does not protect him from being infected with COVID-19, does not make him less likely to become seriously ill from the disease, and does not eliminate the risk of hospitalization and death if he catches it.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/22/2021

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The man who allegedly drove his SUV through a crowd of people marching in a Christmas parade yesterday in Waukesha, Wisconsin has been identified as an aspiring rapper named Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. Five people were killed in the tragic incident, and 48 more were wounded, about half of them children. Mr. Brooks is being charged with five counts of murder. The Waukesha police chief said the incident had nothing to do with terrorism.

In other news, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial “put his thumb on the scale” in favor of the defendant.

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Och, the Puir Wee Bosnian Bairns!

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A German journalist was caught trafficking migrants across the border from Bosnia to Croatia. It seems the enterprising member of the Fourth Estate contrived to enable the border crossing in order to create a heart-rending story that he could write up for his newspaper.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Austrian tabloid eXXpress:

Employee of the left-wing Tagesspiegel arrested as a human trafficker

It is reminiscent of the “Relotius” case. The German blogger and journalist of the left-wing Berlin portal Tagesspiegel Sebastian Leber (44) was arrested on the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina — he was accompanied by a group of migrants whom he allegedly wanted to bring illegally across the border to write an article later about their harrowing trip.

Leber had crossed the border illegally with seven migrants. The attempt to create his own “maudlin” story was stopped by the Croatian border police.

The German blogger and journalist of the “Tagesspiegel” Sebastian Leber was arrested in Croatia because he wanted to smuggle migrants illegally across the EU’s external border and make a story out of it.

— Jonas (@realjonaswd) November 21, 2021

Smuggling charges dropped — appeal

The incident occurred on Friday in the municipality of Cetingrad near the border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Karlovac City Court sentenced the journalist to a fine of 3,600 kuna (€500) for illegally crossing the border. The court dropped the charge of smuggling brought by the border police. The border police announced an appeal against the first instance judgment.

UPDATE: Statement from the editor-in-chief

Update: Late in the afternoon, the editor-in-chief of the Tagesspiegel, Lorenz Maroldt, spoke up: Leber went to the border as a reporter, the comparisons with Relotius were “absurd”. In addition (as can be seen in the eXXpress article, editor’s note) the charge of smuggling was dropped.

From Camelot to Babylon

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Today is the fifty-eighth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I don’t expect much attention to be paid to the occasion; the fiftieth in 2013 was probably the last big fling of the Camelot industry. With the Boomers currently wheezing their way under the sod, the date is passing out of popular recollection and into history.

The image at the top of this post shows the cover of the album “Single Bullet Theory”, by a band of the same name. It’s actually an EP — containing only four songs — rather than a full LP. The cover was too big to put in my scanner, so I had to take a photo of it.

SBT was relatively local to me, in the Richmond area. One member was a friend of a friend, so I actually knew the band a little bit. I heard them play once or twice in the late 1970s.

The image on the album cover was created when irony was just becoming ascendant, so in 1978 it was about as cool and hip as it could get. And at the time it appeared, it would have been instantly recognizable to virtually any American adult.

The original photo — one frame of the 8mm Zapruder film taken in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 — was iconic. Everyone had seen it. Fifteen years after the assassination, the context of that photo was still totally familiar. It even made its way into an Elvis Costello song from the same period, “Less Than Zero” (especially the “Dallas version”). Everyone knew what the singer meant when he said, “…her husband rides a bumper in the president’s procession” and “calling Mr. Oswald” and “…if you were taking home movies, there’s a chance you might have seen him.”

But forty-five more years have passed since then. How well-known is all that Dallas iconography now? I don’t immerse myself much in popular culture these days, but I suspect the events of 11/22/63 are not as generally familiar as they were two generations ago.

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Any kid who was old enough to pay attention to public affairs — say, ten or older — experienced November 22, 1963 as a watershed moment, dividing the continuum into Before and After what happened in Dallas that day.

I was just starting junior high school at the time. Since I was born after World War Two and was too young to remember the Korean War, I had experienced nothing similar in my lifetime. And I experienced nothing like it afterwards until 9-11 came along thirty-eight years later. I was seasoned and jaded by then, however, so it didn’t make as much of an impact, but it was a similar cultural moment.

As far as I could tell, adults were similarly affected by the assassination. I was in band practice that day when the news came in, and I remember the stricken face of our band teacher as he relayed the news to his students.

That was late on a Friday afternoon. The shock and horror on TV continued throughout the weekend, augmented by the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on Sunday, which meant that the principal suspect would never face a public trial. The solemn, elaborate funeral for JFK took place on Monday, and we watched it live on TV. Kids got out of school for the occasion, if I remember correctly.

In retrospect the Kennedy assassination seems to mark the end of one era — which might be called the Post-WW2 Period — and the beginning of another one, for which a succinct name does not come readily to mind. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 did not have the same effect, partly because he survived the attempt, and partly because times had changed by then. The next divide might have been 9-11, but that’s still too recent for me to decide.

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A COVID Epidemic Among the Vaccinated in Israel

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Israel is one of the most-“vaccinated” countries in the world, possibly second only to Gibraltar. It is currently experiencing a surge of infections with the Wuhan Coronavirus, and the majority of the infected patients have been vaccinated, many of them with three shots (i.e. including the first booster).

The following video from Israeli TV is in Hebrew with English subtitles. The unidentified woman who posted it says that it has already been taken down by Facebook once, so she is presenting it again in a different manner and is asking people to spread it, in hopes that it can propagate widely before it is taken down again.

Participants in the video speak very rapidly, so that it is hard to read the subtitles. The woman who presents it videotapes it from her laptop’s screen, pausing it when necessary, while she reads the titles out loud. This is a useful strategy to make sure the information in the video gets through clearly.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video to 3speak where it can’t be taken down:


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Alessandra Schilirò on Compulsory Vaccination

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Alessandra Schilirò is the former deputy police commissioner of Rome. After participating in a demonstration against Italy’s “green pass”, she was suspended from her position.

In the following video, Ms. Schilirò, who is also a lawyer, appears on an Italian TV talk show to argue with the other participants about the legality of compulsory “vaccination” against COVID-19.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


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Mutti is Worried About the Migrant Crisis at the Polish Border

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Epoch Times:

Merkel calls development at the EU’s eastern external borders “worrying”

At her meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin, outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) emphasized the “worrying developments” in relations with Russia and at the EU’s external borders.

In view of the Russian troop deployment on the Ukrainian border and the refugee crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, there is a “need for discussion,” said Merkel on Friday before she withdrew to talks with Stoltenberg.

During her tenure in office, she always “advocated a dialogue between NATO and Russia,” said Merkel. “Unfortunately, it has cooled down at the moment.” Nevertheless, “it is always better to talk to each other than not to speak.”

Putin accuses West of “escalating” the conflict in Ukraine

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of “escalating” through maneuvers in the Black Sea and arms deliveries to Kiev. Western fighter planes would only fly “20 kilometers from our border”, Putin criticized on Thursday at an event by the Russian Foreign Ministry, warning the West not to cross a “red line”. Ukraine had previously announced that it would buy more weapons from the West because of the threat from Russia.

“Our western partners are escalating the situation by supplying Kiev with deadly modern weapons and holding provocative military maneuvers in the Black Sea,” Putin said in his address.

The Russian President was apparently referring to recent exercises by US and other NATO military ships in the sea area. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby had rejected the criticism. “All of our exercises are defensive in nature and are consistent with our alliances and partnership commitments in the region,” he said.

For their part, the NATO partners and Ukraine have been accusing Russia for days of fueling tensions by deploying large numbers of troops on the Ukrainian border and possibly even preparing an invasion of Ukraine.

Stoltenberg also worried

Stoltenberg also expressed concern about the Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine. The NATO partners and Kiev accuse Russia of fueling tensions and possibly even preparing an invasion of Ukraine. The situation is being monitored and “political and practical support for Ukraine” is being provided by NATO, said Stoltenberg.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/21/2021

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An SUV was driven at speed into a crowd of people marching in a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At least one person was killed, and more than twenty wounded, half of them children. Unconfirmed eyewitness reports say the driver was a black man wearing dreadlocks, who was alone in the vehicle.

In other news, record numbers of migrants have crossed the English Channel in a bid to enter the UK before the winter storms begin.

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Thanks to Anonymous, Dean, LP, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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BBC Misinformation: Islamic State

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The following essay by Michael Copeland was originally published in September 2014 at LibertyGB (as “BBC Draws A Veil Over Islamic State”), then edited in 2021.

BBC Misinformation: Islamic State

by Michael Copeland

“What does Islamic State want? They want to enforce their view of conservative Islamic traditions.” — BBC

This appallingly inadequate statement is on the BBC’s 6o-second video. It is, in fact, the only statement in it that actually answers their own question.

No, BBC, Islamic State apply Islamic law, Sharia, by force. They not only “want to” but are already doing so. To refer to Sharia as “their view of conservative Islamic traditions” is shameful, dishonest, and inadequate. No author is shown.

The BBC is being careful to draw the spotlight away from Islam itself. To throw the reader off the scent they are nourishing the propaganda line that Islamic State is not Islamic, that they are pursuing “their idea” which, we are left to suppose, is somehow mistaken. Notice that the text skillfully does not actually say so, but leaves that conclusion to be formed by the reader. There is no mention of law or religion: oh no, only of “conservative traditions”. This is an old chestnut, and a tired and worn one at that. Remember the British detective helpfully assuring the public that a murder (a Muslim honour-killing) was nothing to do with Islam (which it is), but was a product of conservative cultural practices of rural Pakistan? How touching that an English policeman be so expert on tribal practices of rural South Asia! So sensitive!

No: Islamic State is applying Islam. The leader has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, unlike Mr. Cameron, so is well-informed. He has proclaimed himself Caliph, in the same way as earlier Caliphs did. As Abu Imran (Fouad Belkacem) of Sharia4Belgium has helpfully explained, “Islam is Sharia, and Sharia is Islam.” The Caliph is enforcing Sharia, “the path of Allah.”

Sharia is as defined in the Manual of Islamic Law, drawn from the Koran and the “reliable” traditions, “Hadith”, concerning the life and sayings of Mohammed. Together these all form Islamic Law. The Koran can be consulted online and the Manual, “Reliance of the Traveller”, is available as a download.

A second piece by the BBC, “What is Islamic State?” (again, no author shown), is rather more helpful.

Author’s note: since the LibertyGB article appeared the BBC has silently changed the text of this second article. What follows relates to the original text, no longer shown.

Once again, though, it quickly steers the reader away from Islam by dictating, with no explanation, that Islamic State is “a radical Islamist group”. We can note that Islamic State does not call itself “Radical Islamist State”: no, the BBC does that for them.

“The group aims to establish a “caliphate”“. No, it has already declared one. Now for another chestnut: “the group implements a strict interpretation of Sharia”. No: there is not a non-strict or benign interpretation of “Kill”. “Kill” means kill. What the BBC means is a strict application of Sharia, “forcing women to wear veils, non-Muslims to pay a special tax or convert, and imposing punishments that include floggings and executions.” The law is there: it is just that not all Muslim societies apply it to the letter. Yet another old chestnut is rolled out: “IS members are jihadists who adhere to an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam”. What, BBC, is the non-extreme “interpretation” of “Kill”? That is right. There is not one. This is just a device to draw attention away from Islam.

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The Latest Coronadoom from Germany

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Hellequin GB has translated an article from Die Welt about the latest fear porn being propagated by German health authorities about the Wuhan Coronavirus.

The translator includes this information on Leonardo Conti of the Third Reich as a parallel to what is happening now:

Leonardo Conti was the Reich Health Leader in Nazi Germany. The killing of many Germans who were of “unsound mind” is attributed to his leadership
He was a staunch promoter of a public medical administration strongly controlled by the Nazi state. Under his leadership, local health offices were further expanded to allow for a genetic control and selection of the population in order to remove “weak” elements for the improvement of the German race, a doctrine known as eugenics.
The various programmes were the basis for “racial hygiene” a lethal part of the Nazi philosophy.

Accordingly, he was co-responsible for the forced sterilization program, the racially motivated forced pregnancy interruptions, and ultimately the Action T4 program.
It is also undisputed that Conti participated in human experiments.

The Nazi involuntary euthanasia program involved the planned murder of mentally and physically impaired patients and started in September 1939 when the policy was approved by Hitler in a personal decree. He approved the euthanasia of a young disabled boy, Gerhard Kretschmar, at the request of his father, but approval was quickly extended to other disabled children, and then disabled adults. The approval of three doctors was needed for killing of any individual to proceed. The killings were conducted in many hospitals and asylums such as Hadamar Euthanasia Centre by a variety of methods, including enforced starvation, injection of lethal drugs, and gassing using carbon monoxide. Patients were carefully deceived to believe that they were simply taking a shower so as to entice them into the gas chamber, then locked in and asphyxiated through carbon monoxide poisoning. Although public protests led by Bishop Galen and others forced the policy to be officially suspended in 1941, it continued unofficially until the end of the war.

Conti being presented with a report on the Katyn massacre discovered by the Germans in 1943
The program constituted the basis for the later programme of mass murder known as the Holocaust of Jews, Poles, Gypsies as well as other Slavs, and Russian POWs in camps such as Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek. Gassing with Zyklon B was used mainly at Auschwitz and Majdanek with over 1 million victims, and Carbon monoxide at Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno, the main extermination camps. Such mass murder followed the earlier murders through gunfire by the Einsatzgruppen death squads. Many of the SS staff involved in the later murders developed their lethal methods during the Action T4 programme, overseen by Conti. Victims were deceived in the same way as in Action T4, using very elaborate means to convince them that no harm was intended to them.

Conti was also involved in the forensic investigation into the Katyn massacre, and received a detailed report, known as the Katyn Commission on the discovery from an international team of experts.

RKI refers to the Robert Koch Institute, the German equivalent of the CDC:

RKI boss Wieler: We shouldn’t give them a chance to avoid the vaccination with free tests

Dramatic appeal from Lothar Wieler: The RKI President describes how many people will soon die of Corona and how high the number of unreported cases could be. “The prognoses are super gloomy.” He also brings an unconventional idea into play.

As President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler usually explains the current pandemic situation in a matter-of-fact, calm manner in talk shows, press conferences and similar roundtables. On Wednesday evening, a more emotional side of the 60-year-old could be seen. Wieler was a guest at an online discussion event with Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU). And got straight to the point. Before that, at the federal press conference, he had expressed himself “somewhat more cautiously” — but it was clear that of the more than 52,000 new infections reported on Wednesday morning, around 400 cases would be fatal that day . Wieler comes to this conclusion because the rate of reports about the deceased is now around 0.8 percent. So eight out of 1,000 infected people did not survive the disease. “That means that of these 52,000 (infected daily) there — and there is nothing left to be changed — 400 will die.”

This number does not even include a factor that Wieler had previously warned: “These 52,000 hide at least twice or three times as many (newly infected). We have to keep that in mind.”

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/20/2021

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Demonstrators took to the streets in Austria, Italy, Croatia, and other Europe countries to protest vaccine mandates and other Corona-related measures. Meanwhile, the Disney Corporation dropped its vaccine mandate for employees after legislation sponsored by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis restricted such measures.

In other news, more than 420 migrants were “rescued” in the Mediterranean by the Italian coast guard.

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Thanks to Dean, DV, MM, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Déjà Vu All Over Again

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There is nothing new under the sun, and what is happening now in Europe and throughout the West has been seen before within living memory.

The following account by a 91-year-old German woman discusses the parallels between the current situation in Germany and what happened under the Third Reich and the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, German Democratic Republic).

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this op-ed from Epoch Times:

Guest Comment — Contemporary Witnesses

Is the third dictatorship coming?

By Marianne von Rosen November 16, 2021

Marianne is 91 years old. What she’s currently experiencing reminds her of times gone by. She wrote this story down herself.

I, Marianne, am the senior citizen of the family, born in 1930, 91 years old. What I am currently experiencing reminds me strongly of the times that I have already experienced twice.

I was born near Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. My grandmother was Jewish, so I was one quarter Jewish. My mother was half-Jewish, but red-blonde. You couldn’t look more German. I was also sun-blond, with long hair and a braid that was up to 1 meter long. We lived in a village with three liquor factories because the water there was particularly good. My father was employed by the Raiffeisenbank in Stralsund.

From 1933 on, our life gradually changed. My father lost his job at the bank because he did not want to part with his half-Jewish wife. He was allowed to work in one of the liquor factories that belonged to a relative. Many children were suddenly no longer allowed to play with me. If I played with our pastors’ daughters and the children of one of the schnapps manufacturers came there too, then I had to go home because the parents of these children refused to have contact with non-Aryan children.

At school, my older sister and I got worse grades because we were non-Aryan. We weren’t allowed to join the BdM, the Association of German Girls, so we weren’t given a uniform or a scarf with a knot. Later, when we went to the Girls’ Lyzeum in Stralsund, we were no longer allowed to sit with Aryan children on the train to Stralsund. We needed our own 2nd class compartment, which of course had to be paid for by my parents.

We were not allowed to take part in many excursions. One story is particularly schizophrenic. Grand Admiral Dönitz, chief of the German Navy, visited the Stralsund naval base. In an open car, like Adolf Hitler, he drove through the city, the streets lined with cheering spectators and a large contingent of the Hitler Youth in their uniforms. On the main street I, the non-Aryan girl, was allowed to give him an eel. Because I wasn’t afraid to say anything and I looked so Germanic with my blonde hair and long braid like no other girl at school. In addition, I was given the appropriate BdM clothing (white blouse, black skirt, brown jacket with insignia, black scarf with knot).

After handing over the eel, I had to turn in the BdM insignia, scarf, knot and jacket. In the evening a reception was given in the theater in honor of Dönitz. There I was needed again as a particularly Germanic-looking girl. I received the complete BdM clothing again, stepped on the stage, said: “Heil Hitler” and announced with “German greetings”: “The Stralsund young girls choir is now singing …”. There were a total of three songs that I announced. After the event, all of my [BdM] clothes were removed from me because they were reserved for the Aryan girls.

The Gestapo carried out raids on our home several times. But my father received a discreet tip in advance so that the family was never home during the raids. I even went to Görlitz twice at the age of 13/14 with my 7-year-old brother from Stralsund because our paternal grandmother lived there. The other grandmother died of cancer at the age of 32.

I particularly remember Christmas 1944. My mother tearfully asked my father to shoot her so that all the terror could finally come to an end. That was when I saw my father cry for the first time. The next day he was picked up by the Gestapo. It was a really “heartbreaking” moment. Later my father also had to go to a concentration camp because he did not want to get a divorce. So we lived with great worries and were relieved when the war ended and the Russians moved in.

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