Brother, Can You Spare a Pfennig?

Times are tough in Germany, and getting tougher, according to the following report.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Pleiteticker.de. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Poverty in Germany: Waiting in line for four hours for warm soup

The number of people affected by poverty in Germany is increasing. Many can no longer even afford their groceries. This was also shown by an offer of help from the Red Cross in Berlin-Marzahn.

People stood in the cold for up to four hours on Monday to get warm soup and some groceries from the German Red Cross (DRK).

“The queue has never been so long”

The soup kitchen, which opens every month for the needy, has been around for a little over two years. But the line has never been as long as it was in January 2023, says Kati Avci from DRK Berlin. “Poverty is increasing.”

Especially at the end of the month, money is tight for many. One who is queuing is Marcus Richter. “I haven’t had anything for two weeks,” he says. That’s why he borrowed money from his brother: “But he doesn’t have much, either.” [Have you noticed, it’s not a non-German name, now, isn’t that a non-surprise?]

Saving for a visit to the swimming pool

Detlef Schüler is also on site. He has to provide for three children and two adults with his basic income. That’s not enough, back or front. Mandy Gashi is a few meters away — thanks to the free meal, she is saving that way so that her children can go for a trip to the swimming pool.

Every second of the almost 1,000 food banks in Germany reported twice as many customers in 2022 as in the previous year. But in many places the needy had to be sent away because there were not enough food donations. [I wonder why that is? Could it be that those that could donate before are now queuing up, too?]

For January, economists expect an inflation rate of 9.2%. [Put a zero after the 9 and you’ll have the inflation rate for basic food; the 9.2% is a watered-down number through luxury goods that aren’t essential for daily survival.] Therefore, many people are likely to continue to depend on the help of food banks and aid organizations.

Afterword from the translator:

This sounds like the stories I heard from my parents and grandparents from right after WWII. Well done, German government — you’re trying to outdo the Nazi regime in almost every way. And with all that imported crime, I’m pretty sure things will get worse, especially with a population that has widely been emasculated through government programs over decades.

“Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we’re only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final.

Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again — those indestructible weeds of historical truth.”

— Delmer Sefton (1904-1979), former British chief of ‘black propaganda’: (Said after the German surrender, in 1945, in a conversation with the German professor of international law, Dr. Friedrich Grimm.)

Also, look at this — read it and tell me ANYTHING has changed for the better, especially given what we’ve all seen happening in our own countries for years now.

7 thoughts on “Brother, Can You Spare a Pfennig?

  1. Cardinal Vigano says that charity does begin at home and the “neighbours” that need to be helped in the bible were supposed to be those in your community not sending it off to foreign corrupt nations where it could be squandered on gold bars, expensive cars, private jets and the balance left in a swiss bank. That is where some of the German charity has gone. Their security has been squandered on foreign countries and refugees who can go back home for a warm holidays when things get really bad. Even the Ukrainians are going home for holidays. Have you seen the free apartments the Russians have built in Mariupol? Many Ukrainians will go back and live comfortably while the Germans are left with their poverty. Of course the 400k who have died have not done well out of it.

    • Bloody Hell, I’m actually more surprised to find this on Wikipedia than what this states.

      • So was I. There was an earlier census in 1930 iirc, which gave the number in question as slightly over half a million. They had left in good time before the really bad stuff could begin. It is probably safe to say that there was no motivation to underreport them. To make up with this ugly part of history, one just likes to know what is true and what is not. But we’re not permitted to even ask, to this day. The Russians had opened their archives only very recently, which was supposed to enable more research into the matter. The current conflict just adds another twist to that, too.

  2. The more they push the average German into starvation and poverty, the more desperate they will become for someone anyone who will promise them food on the table and a job to go to. Then the retribution on steroids begins. Let it rain!

    • Read again – It’s not a NON-German name. No Abdallah’s, Bashir’s, Ali’s, Dawood’s………. seem to be around to be interviewed. Because if there’d been, you can bet your last farthing that it would have been them that the journalists pounced upon, so they can spin the narrative of the bad German some more.

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