In an eyebrow-raising moment during an interview with Israeli TV, “German Chancellor Angela Merkel, much-maligned for her open-door immigration policy,” stated:
We now have another phenomenon, as we have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country
Angela Merkel appears to be adept at flip-flopping when it suits her. Despite her words, Merkel wants more migrants, even with the “migrant mayhem” that her country has experienced because of her. Last year Merkel “urged Europe to take in even more refugees and said Islam is ‘not the source of terror.’” Only three months before that statement, however, Merkel did a complete U-turn in response to embarrassing electoral defeats and threats to her power, when she ordered the EU to “intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to North Africa.” Who knows what kind of day Merkel may be having.
These days, it difficult for Merkel to ignore the blatant antisemitism that has returned to Germany ever since she flung open the doors to Muslim migration, so she decided to appease her interviewer with a brief moment of enlightenment about people of “Arab origin” bringing in antisemitism.
Merkel’s own actions have resulted in Germany’s importation of a damaging value system: from the Muslims raping of infidel women, as is sanctioned in Islamic texts, to Islamic antisemitism and disdain for infidels, also sanctioned in Islamic texts. Let’s not forget that Christians are being wiped out in the Middle East because of their infidel status. So now that unvetted Muslim migrants are arriving in multitudes in Judeo-Christian nation, what, pray tell, would anyone expect?
No Jewish nursery, no school, and no synagogue can be left without police protection, the German chancellor said. “This dismays us,” she noted, adding that the German government has appointed a commissioner to fight against anti-Semitism.
Despite Merkel’s lip service about antisemitism, she is still stubbornly committed to stick with the EU’s vision of a Muslim migrant saturation of Europe to replace low birth rates, with the utopian dream that migrants will suddenly assimilate into the House of War. In so doing, she continues to enable antisemitism and expose Germany to further jihad attacks.
“Germany facing new form of anti-Semitism from refugees & people of ‘Arab origin’ – Merkel”, RT News, April 24, 2018:
In an interview with Israeli TV, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, much-maligned for her open-door immigration policy, has said Germany is facing a new form of anti-Semitism from refugees and people of Arab origin.
“We now have another phenomenon, as we have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country,” Merkel told the Channel 10 network in a broadcast on Sunday, as cited by Die Welt.
No Jewish nursery, no school, and no synagogue can be left without police protection, the German chancellor said. “This dismays us,” she noted, adding that the German government has appointed a commissioner to fight against anti-Semitism.
Two youths, including an Israeli who decided to wear a traditional Jewish skullcap as an experience, were beaten in Berlin by several assailants in an apparent anti-Semitic attack last week. “I am not Jewish, I am an Israeli and I grew up in Israel in an Arab family,” Adam Armush, 21, a veterinary student who has lived in Germany for three years, told Deutsche Welle.
“It was an experience for me to wear the skullcap and go out into the street.” He said he filmed the attack on him as evidence “for the police and for the German people and the world to see how terrible it is to go through Berlin streets these days as a Jew.”
That dramatic video went viral and has had more than 330,000 views on YouTube. Armush filmed one of the assailants whipping him with a belt while calling out “Yahudi” ( “Jew” in Arabic) before being stopped by a passerby. The video later shows Armush with a bruise on his torso…..
Green Infidel says
Merkel has said for a long time that multiculturalism has failed, and that many immigrants are involved in crime. In fact I’m not aware of her ever denying that immigratiom causes problems… so why is this “eyebrow-raising”? Everything she does seems to be very deliberate.
mortimer says
NEWS FLASH: MERKEL IS A RACIST AND ISLAMOPHOBE … admits MUSLIM ARABS ARE ANTI-SEMITIC.
But ANGELA, it isn’t JUST the Arabs … every other Muslim nationality too! ALL MUSLIMS ARE BORN TO HATE JEWS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNK4_IjAO6Y&t=31s
esther says
so true—–I came into contact with muslims from LOTS of different
countries —–more than 50 years ago and since. Some of them had
never met a jew—–until meeting me ——they took me for
American Christian anyway.——more than 60 years ago I came into
contact with hardcore Nazi literature—–in little seedy pamphlets
spread all over my BUNDIST TOWN (north east USA—-sorta a some-
what provincial wasp center). I met young Medical school graduates
from Karachi who could QUOTE Nazi propaganda chapter and verse.
It was fascinating. When I read the stuff as a ten year old—-I thought
it was something like MAD MAGAZINE——-they BELIEVED it with
KORANIC ZEAL (another weird trait——-KORAN <<<<da absolutely
true book——-beats Harrison's textbook of Medicine
RichardL says
Deliberate? Angela Merkel is everything but deliberate. She is incredibly ruthless and totally empty of morality, but also has no plan, no goal, no ideals.
Save Europe says
I’d beg to differ. She DOES have plans and goals. She’s a Leftard Globalist – in bed, like all too many Western Leaders, with the Saudis, Qataris, Soros etc
David M says
Just like Trudeau, just like Macron. Macron wants to bring in 200 million Africans to Europe, & is currently getting three minute standing ovations from the US Congress for preaching nationalism is bad & globalism & one world government is good.
These leftist leaders are the enemy, Macron should be booed, not applauded.
Victoria says
Merkel is a globalist along with half of the European continent. Britain is a globalist basket case. George Soros, the Clintons and Obama tried to deliver America to the New World Order. If Trump doesn’t win the next election it will be by-by for America as we know it. The left will be so strong there will never be another election. Soros army of masked thugs, ANTIFA will be patrolling our streets keeping us indoors and without arms..
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DFD says
She most certainly has a plan and a goal: The destruction of Germany, Europe and the US. Simple as that, like all who follow Frankfurt, Hooton & Kalergi.
Christine Douglass-Williams said: “…Angela Merkel appears to be adept at flip-flopping when it suits…”
Appears? Flip-flopping? She can spin faster than a super sonic centrifuge! She was heading, in East Germany a department for “Agitation und Propaganda”, do I need to translate that? Her Stasi cover name was “Erika”.
She works with the utmost precision and determination. In the upcoming visit to Washington, if she meets Trump or not, she will do her utmost to damage Germany’s relationship with the US to the maximum extent possible, and to sow discord between as many parties as possible.
If or when Trump decides to ‘punish’ her by causing damage to German interests,
she will be delighted!
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FYI says
Could there be a connexion between allah’s violent anti-Semitism displayed in his koran and the rise in anti-Semitism due to Merkel’s policy of allowing mass islamic immigration into Germany?
Of course there is.Refarding Jews,the koran says they are ..
“be ye apes,despised and hated”
koran 2 v 65
All moslems subscribe to allah’s koran and all korans preach such hatred.Allowing mass islamic immigration increases the chances of such anti-Semitism(and anti-Christianity too since allah curses the Jews AND the Christians in koran 9:30)
And this is why allowing islamic immigration is incompatible with the west…
“Oh ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for friends”
koran 5 v 51
So the more religious the moslem,the more they follow the warped teachings of the koran, the less likely they are to be friendly towards Jews and Christians.
islam is supremacist in that all other world religions are seen to be subject to it:that’s why islam,to the muslim, will never be equal to Judaism or Christianity.
Merkel’s treason has created this problem…
Ray Jarman says
FYI, Your comment reminds me of Totalitarianism 101. For a totalitarian entity to survive, it requires an enemy of the state for which all evils within the state can be manifest. For the muslims, every evil within their pitiful existence is a result of the Jew just as it were for the Nazis and the Capitalists was the plight that stole the greatness that could have been under Communism. Anti-Semitism is the glue that has kept islam from eating itself into oblivion.
melek-ric says
Merkel and the Leftist Socialist elites in Germany and the EU despise right-wing Capitalist Jews, the “Finanzjudentum” so loathed by Hitler and the National Socialists. Merkel and her collaborators are happy to have Leftist Jews in their camp, but only as useful idiots and tokens to deflect accusations of bias.
Meanwhile, by purposefully importing millions of Muslims into Germany and the rest of Western Europe, the Capitalism-hating Euro-Socialists are guilty of anti-Semitism by proxy, letting Islam do their dirty work of driving Jews out of Europe while maintaining an aloof distance and the pretense of keeping their own hands clean.
G P says
‘This dismays us’ – only dismayed? She should be full of hot, white anger.
Looks like Germany is looking to reignite Jew hunting – are they trying to outshine Adolf?
Germany will be gone in under five years, smart Germans are learning Hungarian and moving east.
Westman says
Merkel’s admission of the common Muslim immigrant’s anti-semitism is proof certain of her former(?) ignorance of the Quranic references to Jews. the
It appears that 40 years of living with far-past immigrants, well-behaved Muslim professionals, gave the West a false image of typical Islamic attitudes. Now that the full curve of Muslim society is arriving, en masse, the education of Merkel and the rest of the national leaders is finally in progress. It’s not unlike discovering that one has a curable disease, perhaps too late to avoid some permanent disfigurement or death.
The politician’s strategy of following the crowd, reading polls and leading from behind, could prove fatal for Europe. It will certainly put sand in the economic engine of Germany and, by extension, a decline in the overall economic health of the EU.
Save Europe says
They’re mostly moving to the Lake Balaton area.
nicu says
Aha – Israeli TV : why she doesn’t admit it to the German people in public ????
@GP : it has nothing to do with smart — most cannot afford to leave !
nicu says
Phenomenon ??? It was clear before that they hate everyone except other Muslims
mariam rove says
What difference does her statement/acknowledgement makes anyways? This no good SOB keeps importing them to Germany by thousands. M
Mark Swan says
So true mariam rove, she sure doesn’t seem willing to quit.
Voytek Gagalka says
So, what her “great” evil predecessor (AH) could not complete, does she intend to finish now? With “help” of antisemitic Arabs?
Sentinel says
“we have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country”
Under laws that Merkel introduced she is guilty of Islamophobia and must face prosecution by her Sharia dominated police authorities.
No Muzzies Here says
She is insulting all the Arab Christians in the world. Arab is not equivalent to Muslim.
Pong says
In anti-semitism they are equivalent.
DFD says
You’re Muslim, aren’t you
gravenimage says
Some Christians in Dar-al-Islam are indeed antisemitic. It does not help that Muslims are constantly demanding that Arab Christians condemn Israel–and that they will attack Chiristians if they do not.
Salah says
Breaking News:
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi departed on Sunday for an official visit to Hungary to attend an extraordinary summit of the Visegrad Group.
Securing the south Mediterranean Sea, blocking migration routes and fighting terrorism are important tasks for the Egyptian authorities, and therefore makes it a key partner for Central European countries, summed up Orbán.
https://visegradpost.com/en/2017/07/05/the-v4-and-egypt-strengthen-their-cooperation/
KJW says
It isn’t about birthrates, this is a deliberate plan started by the European Commission, initially. It is about Arabization and economics, which is clear as day. They know Muslims won’t integrate, especially as Saudi Arabia, et al., are pushing all aspects of Arab culture, history alteration, Arabic language in western schools, funding US iniversities with milions of dollars for Islamic Law Centers at our law schools. Obviously, birthrate isn’t an issue when you can hire foreigners as needed and natives still need jobs. Japan gets this.
The whole de-nationalization and anti-sovereignty ideology is all part of this. Western leaders, politicians, many leftists, NGOs, etc. are criminals with blood on their hands (and worse to come), disunity, treason, anti-free speech, cowing to Arab oil countries, stoking the Left, and not caring what citizens think and giving the impression that their countries have not already had diversity from Indians to whomever. Not everybody is meant to live together. In he US we’ve been multi-ethnic, but Muslims have figured low, naturally, no other immigrants in my lifetime have caused these problems.
Birthrate is bsloney. Also, European countries have harbored terrorist affiliates for a lng time now…people they should have never let in and/or deported. These elites, the EU, EC, et al. have lost all moral compass, humanity to their own people, greed, and the probably try to believe in their own propaganda as do Muslims. Now they have created a dangerous powder keg, cultural degredation, warping of history and self-loathing and the willingness to be humilated dhimmis while the Arab world hasn’t contributed anything much useful except to sit on oil that westerners discovered and developed. Cultural relativism is bull…it means anti-human rights and freedoms are OK because “it’s just their culture.” These organzations and politicians are despicable, and in the US too. Then on top of that, Muslims lie…a lot. Every Muslm organization lies.
PJG says
Yet many influential Jews have pushed and pushed for multiculturalism and mass immigration into Europe: something they never push for in Israel. Oh well, maybe this “anti-Semitism” in Germany won’t be a bad thing for Israel…it is reported that over half of Israel’s students want to emigrate, mostly to Europe. maybe enough attention paid to “anti-Semitism in Europe” will keep those young people in Israel..
Pong says
Where did you find an influential jew in Europe? Only in your own anti-semitic delusion. There are leftist jews who support moslem immigration, but to say that they have any influence on government policies is ridiculous. Israel has better relationship with the east European countries which have policies against moslem immigration. Those facts didn’t occur to your small mind. Students in many countries would like to travel and experience new countries, Europe in particular as European history and culture are the Jewish history and culture as well. Islamic Europe is a tragedy to israel. At least now Europe pretend not to be anti-semitic.
Mark Swan says
The story is told, in several cultural variations, of a Jewish man spotting a friend reading an Arabic newspaper. “Moshe, have you lost your mind?” he says.
“Well, I used to read the Jewish papers, but what did I find?” Moshe replies. “Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation, Jews living in poverty. So I switched to an Arab newspaper. Now what do I find? Jews own the banks, Jews control the media, Jews are all rich and powerful, Jews rule the world. The news is so much better!”
boris says
Already twice has Germany destroyed Europe, first the megalomaniac Kaiser Wilhelm II, then a bit more then 30 years later the ‘wahnsinnige’ Adolf Hitler. You would think that Germany had learned its lesson. And we did believe that. Until Merkel opened the gates for millions of muslims. and destroyed the Euro. But the tide will turn against her in and outside Germany. See Orban of Hungary. Everywhere in Europe there is growing resistance to Merkel.
The European says
To Boris
I am really fed up with with these stupid remarks about Germany. You had more than 70 years to learn the truth about Word War I and WWII, but you keep telling that spiteful anti-German atrocity propaganda from the two great wars. You can’t tell the difference between war propaganda and historical truth. I am willing to have a debate with anybody about WWI and WWII, but I think that would be hopeless with people who are just German-haters and can only repeat imbecillic propaganda lies. Even in the last part of your comment you must distort the facts.
1. Germany didn’t destroy the euro. The euro is still our European currency and Germany does everything to keep it, even bailing out bankrupt states like Greece.
2. Muslims flooded Europe long before 2015, there are many more Muslims in Britain and France than in Germany. You are blaming Merkel for something that every European Leader – be he French, British, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish or whatever- has been doing for at least 40 years: Flooding Europe with Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants from the Third World.
3. Merkel doesn’t give orders, she takes orders.from the US, from the UN, from powerful NGO’s, from all these rich and influential people who are adepts of NWO and One-World-ideology.
4: Germany might be an economic giant, politically spoken, it’s nothing but a dwarf, it is not even a sovereign state.
So, Mr. Boris, if you must point fingers at someone, point fingers at the true culprits and stop writing bullshit about Germany.
Wellington says
Seems, The European, we have quite the different take on Germany. Thus, I will take you up in argument about Germany anytime you care to.
Ray Jarman says
Wellington, I hardly ever disagree with you but I would love to have a sit down and discuss the reasons for WWI and WWII. I think that we could have a great time as I appreciate your stance on part of WWI but not the root causes for the War.
PJG says
The European: I agree. But perhaps you don’t go far enough. I wonder if you would agree with me on who really won World War 2? Those “One World” people tend to be of one certain persuasion, don’t they…or they are sycophantic lackeys.
Caro K. says
Yes, who really did win WWII? Marshall Plan for Germany, mega debt for Great Britain.
gravenimage says
Is this another claim that no one should have resisted the horrors of Fascism?
Save Europe says
For me, you’re both correct and both wrong. I’d just simply state – ‘German leaders, and any whom voted for that specific triumvirate.’ I like Germany and Germans but abhor Leftard Germans as much as I have disdain for my own British Leftards.
Ray Jarman says
I was in agreement with your opine until the last couple of points which I think were exaggerated. You are perfectly correct in saying that Deutschland did not initiate WWI as history has recorded that the English encouraged the Russian military to take the initiative against their southern neighbor and the Russian army sent General Samsonov on a campaign to conquer the Germans at Danzig. The Deutsch military surrounded the Russians and after capitulation, the Russian general committed suicide. For further enlightenment, I suggest that people read the collection of letters “Willy-Nicky Letters” between the Kaiser and the Czar to understand that these leaders as well as Edward of England wanted to avoid a war at all costs.
Concerning WWII you are on target as had the Germans not been forced to sign Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty, known as the “War Guilt Clause” written by the twenty-three year old lawyer, John Foster Dulles, assigning guilt for the First World War, General Erich Ludendorff’s statement, “Wir wurden in den Rücken gestochen,” would have carried no water. Also had not the idiot in the WH, Wilson, sided with Clemenceau rather than Lloyd George and General Smuts regarding reparations, WWII would probably have been avoided since the undue hardships thrust upon Germany would probably have been avoided and Von Hindenburg would not have placed Hitler into the Chancellorship seat in Berlin.
Your 3rd and 4th points were exaggerated as Merkel is not taking orders from anyone else and Deutschland is still the economic power that subsidizes much of Europe.
gravenimage says
With all respect, Ray, the idea that poor old Hitler had no choice to invade most of western Europe and to commit genocide against the Jews because of the Treaty of Versailles is just ahistorical claptrap.
Ray Jarman says
Gravenimage, I agree that Hitler had no justification for his actions, in particular the slaughter of Jews. My point was that Hitler would not have ever come to power had Wilson and Clemenceau listened to General Smuts and Lloyd George. Because of the actions at Versailles by the French and Americans in particular, the seed was planted and nurtured for someone like Hitler to be given power. Even with Gustav Stresemann leading the Weimar Republic out of the out of its hyperinflation and into the League of Nations, the depression of the 1930s aided in the placing of Hitler by Von Hindenburg in 1933 as Chancellor (Note: Some historians think that WWII would not have happened if Stresemann not died as he would have blocked Hitler). But please keep in mind that Hitler’s Nazi Party never received more than about thirty percent of any election; he was put into power by those who thought they could use him much like the leftist in the West today think they can control the muslims for their own purposes. As in Germany, the tail will gobble the dog if not checked.
Please don’t think that I condone anything that Hitler did and one of the first places that I visited soon after being posted to Germany in 1974 was Dachau to lay flowers at the gate. My heroes of the twentieth century were Winston Churchill and men such as Dr. Edvard Beneš and Jan Masaryk who fought and died for Hungary. The worst villains were the Young Turks, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Tojo and Hitler with their minions. One other thing is that even though my wife and I don’t drink alcohol, I bought a bottle of Champaign and toasted President Trump’s announcement to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Wellington says
Germany will never learn. It never has and never will. As Goethe said, the Germans make trouble for themselves and for everyone else as well.
Yes, the Germans are very proficient in an overall IQ kind of way, they certainly have produced a first-rate technology, but there is a profound flaw in the German character as evidenced by allowing a silly bully like Kaiser Wilhelm II to pull all of Europe into WWI (and consult a great German historian, Fritz Fischer, respecting why Germany really should have been blamed for starting The Great War) and allowing a monstrous creep like Hitler to take over Germany (legally I might add) and all the world into WWII.
Now we have Merkel, who is a disaster in the making. She has done (and sadly will continue to do) immense harm to all of Europe and Western Civilization. In fact, it is arguable, and I have contended this before at JW, that Merkel, long term, may actually end up doing more harm to Germany and Europe than even Hitler did.
One last matter: I am of half-German descent myself and I am so glad that my German great-great grandfather decided to come to America shortly after the 1848 revolutions which plagued most of Europe. Best move ever for my family since being a German-American, as Eisenhower and Truman also were, is, quite frankly and easily, better than being “just” a German.
To Germany I say, get your effing act together though I think the probability of this is very slim. The fact that a person like Merkel is now leader of Germany tends to prove my overall point here, no? In the moral intelligence and common sense realms, Germany is retarded—before, now and probably forever.
PJG says
You are woefully brainwashed, Wellington.
Wellington says
That simply won’t do, PJG. I gave examples (and I could have given many more) for asserting what I did. You merely provided a stupid, insulting generalization with no examples and generalizations without examples, especially when combined with an insult, are worthless. You know this or should know this. If you wish to see who is really brainwashed, may I suggest you look in the nearest mirror.
Rufluc says
I agree with all that you say Wellington. History clearly speaks for itself! And just as writer and philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Unfortunately it’s people like PJG that really are the problem. They are blind to the truth, and instead choose the path of constant denial, so their warped beliefs are maintained. Very much like Merkel herself!
The European says
To Wellington
Of course, I know Fritz Fischer. In 1961 he wrote his book “Griff nach der Weltmacht” ( This book has certainly been translated into English, but I do not know the title, it roughly translates as “The scramble for world power). There he expounds his thesis that Germany alone was to blame for the outbreak of WWI, but that thesis has been refuted long ago by many renowned German historians ( NIpperdey, Münkel, Heinrich August Winkler). And one should not forget that Fritz Fischer was a former nazi ( a stormtrooper (SA) and a member of the NSDAP). So, how much credit should be given to a man who switched sides after WWII, probably trying to ingratiate himself with the allied rulers of Germany?
But even more recent historians like Christopher Clarke, an Australian historian, for example,
do not subscribe to the view that Germany alone has to bear the responsability for the unleashing of WWI. In his book “The Sleepwalkers” he writes: ” All Major European powers felt that they were acting under pressure from outside. Everyone thought that war was imposed on them by their adversaries. But all of them made decisions that aggravated the crisis. In that sense, they all bore the responsability, not just Germany ( These are not his own words, I only have the German version, so this is a translation).” Good reads are also the works of Harry Elmer Barnes and M.H.Cochran ( Germany not guilty in 1914). These American authors say that the US has been dragged into WWI, because it naively believed British and French reports on alleged German war atrocities. A committee appointed by the government of Belgium in 1922 found out that all of these reports which were regularly published by anti-German newspapers like The Times and The Daily Mail as well as the findings of the so-called Bryce-committee ( Lord Bryce, a former British ambassador to the US set up a group which “investigated” war crimes that had been allegedly committed by German soldiers in Belgium) were propaganda lies.
And Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian, says that WWI could have easily been avoided, if all the parties involved had been willing to employ all their diplomatic means to manage the crisis, and that only Britain’s decision to go to war made this local conflict into a global conflagration.
So, yes, Germany bears responsibility for WWI, but their are more culprits than just Germany and the other imperialistic powers of that time are not less guilty than Germany.
“In the moral intelligence and common sense realms, Germany is retarded..:”
Pardon me, but this is ridiculous. The moral flaws you pretend to find with the German nation, can be detected in every nation that took part in WWII. If there ever was such a thing as allied moral superiority, is was lost when American and British warplanes started dropping bombs on German cities, killing unarmed and innocent German civilians by the thousands.
Did you know that about 650000 German civilians were killed by your bombs? You just killed them, because they were Germans,these people weren’t soldiers, they were of no military value. Was that a display of moral superiority or rather a show of moral depravity? Think about it!
And, oh yes, we can also talk about Eisenhower’s death camps.
In his book “Other losses,” a Canadian journalist named James Bacque, proved beyond any doubt that about 750 000 POW’s died in allied prisoner camps, because Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to treat them according to the Geneva Convention. Having no shelter, no barracks, being dangerously undernourished and medically ill-treated, these German prisoners died of exposure, exhaustion, malnutrition…
Mass killings of unarmed civilians, deliberate starvation of POW’s. Wha,t was that? A punitive measure to dicipline morally retarded Germans? Or wasn’t it rather a war crime, a crime against humanity. People like Arthur Harris ( Bomber Harris) and Eisenhower should have been tried at Nuremberg too, and not for a moment would I hesitate to call them war criminals.
But there were other Americans who were more like George Patton: He was a fearsome foe, but he fought with honour, he didn’t shoot German soldiers after they had surrendered, he didn’t let them starve to death in prison camps, he even opposed Eisenhower’s policy on the treatment of German POW’s.
Besides, the whole concept of one nation being morally retarded and other nations being morally normal or even superior, is nonsensicical, just as the idea of collective guilt.
Individuals can be guilty, individuals can be morally depraved, retarded, up to standards or superior, but not a nation as a whole.
JM says
Excellent post, The European.
Caro K. says
To The European: Your comments are bizarre beyond count. Relativism is next to impossible to apply to the Nazis. What the heck were those bloody concentration camps all about? Or the SS, or the loony self-defeating drive to invade everybody? It’s this kind of relativism that has prevented the West from winning any war since WWII. For that is the problem with war, the only way to actually win one is to be ruthless, and with wisdom, your’s and your enemies, everyone will remember what it cost and not mess with you again. Thus you accomplish two goals, you win the war, and prevent future ones, for your reputation precedes you.
Anonymous says
The European has brought up excellent points, points frowned upon in polite conversation.
In response to Caro K.
>> For that is the problem with war, the only way to actually win one is to be ruthless, and with wisdom, your’s and your enemies, everyone will remember what it cost and not mess with you again.
So it is justifiable for allied planes to carpet bomb Dresden and for Eisenhower to starve POWs to death in prison camps… so that future enemies would think twice before standing up to the US. In the same breath however you say “What the heck were those concentration camps all about?”
And yet “relativism is next to impossible to apply to the Nazis”. Why? Because the victors of the war have been remarkably successful in their campaign to demonize the enemy.
Caro K. says
Sadly, that’s called winning. It’s why its always dangerous starting a war. What’s your source for starving prisoners? I have a friend who’s German father was captured by American forces in north Africa. He spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. At war’s end he was sent home to Dresden, East Germany, where he later escaped with the help of an American major who knew him in prison camp. He lived the rest of his life in Arlington VA.
Wellington says
The European: Several points.
Fischer’s thesis has not been refuted but rather vigorously disagreed with. Big difference. Personally, I think every major European nation bears some blame for WWI but Germany by far the most. It was unnecessarily belligerent in the years leading up to WWI, examples being the two Moroccan Crises (1905–06 and 1911) and the effort to build a giant navy to match Britain’s hegemony on the seas even though Britain acquiesced to Germany having a much larger army than Britain did. King Edward VII, a pretty shrewd observer of human nature, was aghast at the repeated boasting and sabre rattling of his nephew, the Kaiser.
As for the contention that America was brought into WWI because of false reports of German atrocities, this is flat out wrong. America was brought into WWI for two reasons: 1) the resumption by Germany of unrestricted submarine warfare; and 2) the Zimmerman Telegram, which involved Germany promising Mexico that if it came into the war against America it would aid Mexico in getting back California, Arizona, et al. that was lost in the Mexican War (1846-1848). These are the two reasons why President Wilson went before Congress in early April of 1917 and asked for a declaration of war. One knows this or should know this.
As for the deaths, regrettable to be sure, of many German women and children due to Allied bombing of Germany, the fault for this can be laid at Hitler’s feet. Sometimes civilized polities have to stoop almost as low as the barbarian in order to save civilization. There would have been no bombing of German cities but for Hitler commencing WWII. I suppose you also want to blame America, not Japan, for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Your moral equivalency thinking is showing most glaringly, you know.
As for the deaths of German POWS, this was not due to any deliberate policy. First of all, Bacque’s numbers have been shown to be grossly exaggerated. Second, food shortages and other shortages accounted for some of these deaths. Third, there is a big difference between screw-ups and inefficiencies that lead to death as opposed to calculated designs to have people die. Fourth, by far the most deaths of German POWS occurred under the Soviets, not America or Britain.
Finally, if you wish to see no moral difference between the Anglo-Saxon powers and Nazi Germany, this speaks volumes about your own moral intelligence and common sense. A Hitler could never have arisen in the UK or America. But he did in Germany. As William Shirer, author of The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich, noted, when he listened to Hitler speak in the 1930’s (Shirer, an American journalist, was fluent in German) he would turn around to see how many Germans were laughing at the ridiculous crap Hitler was spewing replete with histrionic gestures. Instead, he saw Germans enthralled with the man and was appalled that he saw this, noting that Hitler would have been laughed into oblivion in Britain or America. Yes, there is a common sense and moral difference, historically speaking, between the UK and America on the one hand and Germany on the other. As Winston Churchill noted, the damn trouble with the Germans is that they’re either at your throat or at your feet. Done here.
Mark Swan says
Thank you Wellington, I was wondering if you were going to respond to him-
glad you did.
Mark Swan says
Hey DFD, how have you been?
I am interested in knowing more about— “And finally, there are five German Generals and a host of other officers, plus several police chiefs warning about civil war in Europe. And advising how to avoid it.”
I tried looking it up here—no luck—I would like to hear more on it.
DFD says
@Mark Swan
Hi Mark, good to hear from you too 🙂
Here are two of the military guys, there are lots more, you can search from there. And one of the police chaps. Commencing with the mils…
Generalmajor a.D. Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof
(“a.D.” literally: out of Service/Duty; i.e. retired)
youtube.com/watch?v=eF_caoaN3Cw
(In German, wrote and lectured lots about history as well. Has a cracked voice due to an operation)
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Dieter Farwick, BrigGen a.D., Brigadier General that is, now author and lecturer, several books. Born 1940, drafted into the army 1961. Rose through the ranks, and by learning.
google.com/search?q=dieter+farwick+brigadegeneral&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
He already wrote several books whilst serving, after retirement he was chief editor for “Newsservice worldsecurity.com”. Frequent contributor at Conservo, one of the main alternative and anti Islamic sites in Germany.
These are only two of the military guys, search from there.
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In addition there are lots of judges, many of the constitutional high court (Surpreme Court), mostly retirees, but one active one, though he’ll soon be out. There were and are many others, many who recently had deadly accidents, or who died suddenly of some long term, usually non-fatal, diseases. Conveniently for Merkel and Co. There are plenty of web sites dealing with this and Islam. The German sites are splitting, into {Islam only} and {Islam + politics} and mostly politics. Germany is heavily in flux, the MSM lost and loses dramatically, their editors, chief editors and many reporters changing over to the alternative sites and real papers (printed ones). Losses in the MSM over 50%! “Der Spiegel” alone over 50%, and dropping. “Bild” once Germany’s, nay, Europe’s largest with over 5 million copies per day: down to 1.25 million in less than two years. AND FALLING! Their chiefs and editors, went over to PI-News or became leading members of the AfD, such as Nikolaus Fest. And and and….
Further of the civilian side:
Rainer Wendt
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google.com/search?q=rainer+wendt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Head of the German Police Förderation, the German Police Union, which makes him Germany’s most powerful Cop. He is heavily anti Islamic, wrote several books about Islam and the threat it poses to Germany and to Europe and to European, Christian culture.
Hated by the Merkel regime which tried and tries to get rid of him, very difficult, the entire police force follows him, and he can only be removed by de-election, i.e., electing somebody else. But the German cops trust him and he is elected with overwhelming majority. The Muslim “community” hates him even more.
**His latest:**
(Brilliant and shows or explains the man!)
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He suggested in order to reduce anti Semitism that from all anti Semitic families, or were there “…is a possible risk of anti Semitism…” to remove the children and either raise them under state supervision or have them adopted by Christian parents. The venom the Muslims are spitting is – phenomenal!?! He is used to it. The silence in the media is stunning, not a single word!
These are just a few, take it from there.
More….:
If interested google ALSO through the names I gave in my post above to which you replied/requested, they will explain a lot of what happened to America. Remember what I forecast’ years ago of what will happen? And how I was ‘corrected’ sworn at, Nazi, loser, Americans have the second amendment, America hater and bla, bla bla… Remember? I was also called a ‘fantasist’, oh brother…
Now, have a read only through one daily issue of JihadWatch, by Robert Spencer or one of his contributors. Amazing, no? From the courts and press in the US, to the US government and institutions, not making any difference which one. To the dot on the “i”, everything I foretold has come true – and trust me, it’s going to get worse. Just check the names in my post above. And what they have done to the US, and what they are now doing to Europe, AND the US!!!! Learn your future, they already have reduced your number to less than 50% of the populace – in about 50 years, check and analyze your numbers!
By the way, if you want to know more, let me know. As I said, check on those whose names I gave in my post to which you responded. And don’t forget a detailed one on Thomas Barnett (US, shoot all who oppose the NWO) and Gen. Wesley Clark, if his statements and comments surprise you, particularly those on Europe, its multikulti destiny and that of his people, Clark’s middle name is Kanne (Cohen)… That’s why he sounds like Barbara Lectre Spectre and similar such charming peoples. He makes Hillary as a candidate look banal and beneficial, should she have won. Check ’em out.
Mark Swan says
Thank you DFD—good to see you are still with us—you take care my friend.
gravenimage says
Agreed. Caro.
JM says
Not to put too fine point on it, Wellington, but your statement that both Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman were German-American should be somewhat refined.
Eisenhower’s family fled Karlsbrunn, Germany in the 17th century because of religious persecution. They settled in Switzerland, where they lived for a century before coming to America.
As for Truman, only his maternal grandmother qas Grrma
JM says
…was German. (sorry about the typo.)
Wellington says
I agree, JM. But both were still of German descent. Indeed, Eisenhower, when he first came across the concentration camps and death camps, said that he found another reason to despise the Nazis because for the first time in his life they made him feel ashamed of his German heritage.
Rob says
‘We now have another phenomenon, as we have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country’
..and she never saw that coming. After decades of seeing Turkish guestworker enclaves that hardly assimilated she thought jobless, skill-less hordes would be energetic get-ahead VW lathe-operators on day one.
This is a crime Merkel.
Ed Lee says
This is pretty straightforward. On one hand Merkel has her personal views (which she let slip in the interview), and on the other, she has her political marching orders.
Cheer Bear Girl says
Merkel is accountable for all the trouble in Germany. Allowing dangerous foreigners into her country is straight up treason.
Marco says
‘’This dismays us” Why? Are “they” really that clueless?
Bacherbazistan says
Merkel doesn’t have utopian ideas about illegal immigrants integrating. Globalists want to use them to engineer a security crisis to justify bringing in martial law/police state and EU army. Since they are Satanists they also see muslim replacement migration as a way to eradicate Christianity by preventing it from reviving.
PJG says
Germans have been guilt-tripped and brainwashed to think that “anti-Semitism” is the worst possible crime., much worse than anti-German or anti-Christian sentiments in their OWN country..If Germans are such ghastly people, responsible for the senseless and savage murder of millions of Jews, unforgivable (“Never Forgive, Never Forget”) I am surprised that Jews want to live in Germany at all. Jewish hatred of the German people is very old…just read the Communist Manifesto of 1848 for a taste of it. Has that hatred evaporated or does it still simmer or boil? We are persuaded to believe that Arabs or Muslims have engineered the current invasion of Europe, but I’m not so sure any more. Geopolitics are a cauldron of lies and deceit.
gravenimage says
Wait–are you claiming that the Holocaust was because of supposed Jewish hatred of Germans? Grotesque. Jews were an integrated part of German society–they did not hate Germans.
kouldb says
“German government has appointed a commissioner to fight against anti-Semitism.” Yes, but they will only persecute & prosecute non-Muslims who dare to criticise Israel or Jews for the part they’ve played in some of this. Whilst Muslims will be allowed to go on as usual. Christians & anesthetists will be gagged completely. They won’t be able to criticise anyone. Just like in Britain.
gravenimage says
I see that the foul antisemitic kouldb is once again claimig that the Jihad is Jewish. Ridiculous.
Matthieu Baudin says
The default outcome, following on from the current policy opposing deportations of recent arrivals on almost any grounds, will be the toleration of increasingly hateful anti Jewish sentiment throughout Germany. And those native Germans who have wanted to cut ties with Israel will be able to achieve their aims without lifting a finger and will be able to wash their own hands of any responsibility.
Rufluc says
Being childless, like many other Western leaders, this insane woman has absolutely no stake in the future, so she is at ease with making reckless decisions that will both directly and negatively affect all indigenous Europeans and their children for at least the next 100 years. After that time there will be non left as the barbaric Muslims will have butchered every last one of them that refuse to convert to Islam!
This will be the legacy of this idiotic woman who has been given a free rein to completely decimate the people of Europe.
She is a traitor of the worst kind, who will end up having the blood of every European on her hands if she doesn’t stop and reverse her madness NOW! In short, she is NOT fit to rule, and she will turn out to be far worse than Hitler…..and she will do it without ever firing a shot!
It also galls me to think that after all that has happened in Germany where these Muslim immigrants are concerned, the German people STILL vote her back into power albeit in a lessened way. But doesn’t this just show how left wing, liberal and short sighted people have become? Which I suggest is a a direct consequence of how young European people have been so brain washed in their schools and universities by the infiltration of the insidiously evil left, who use these places to propagate and spread the seeds of their anti white, anti Christian ideology!
Read the book ‘A paradoxical alliance by Jack Buckby’ which explains how the left are aiding and abetting the spread of the evil cult of Islam!
Brother Charles says
LOL, AH,AH,AH,AH , MERKEL YOU BOOBED BIG TIME , NOW YOU WILL BE CLASSED HAS ANTI-SEMETIC ,BECAUSE YOU CONDONED THE IMMIGRATION OF THESE PEOPLE ,WELL DONE ,I SHOULD SAY SHALOM ,BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO NEED IT ?.
Caro K. says
One could almost surmise the German elite are still antisemitic.
They’ve imported millions to do the dirty work for them, with their backdoor so-called altruism. Why Jews still live in Germany is beyond comprehension.
gordon miller says
Boy, that Merkel lady is sharp as a tack. Imagine being able to see the Germans, invited into the country, begin to terrorize the Jews there.
The European says
To Wellington
When I read your answer, I wanted to confute you point by point, but this is not a fair debate, since you belong to those self-righteous Americans who always try to claim the moral high ground, but one only has to read the disparaging and cynical remarks about German victims of allied terror bombing and one realises immediately that you lack any true understanding of morality.
Nevertheless will Il make some remarks.
You said that unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann-telegram were the reasons why the U.S. declared war on Germany. This was indeed the opportunity you seized upon in order to enter the war. But you don’t want to see the whole picture
1. there was a naval blockade on all German harbours. The British navy blocked our harbours and thereby cut us off from vita imports. By the end of WWI about 700 000 Germans had died as a result of that naval blockade.
2, Submarine warfare was conducted, because Germany needed to break the naval blockade, and German submarines had sunk American trade ships, because many of these ships were carrying guns and ammunition and other war material to Great Britain and to France. Long before you declared war on Germany, you aided the Allies in their war effort against Germany. You were never neutral.
3. Big American banks, like J.P.Morgan and company and the American state ( 10 billion Dollar in war loans) had invested large sums into the war effort, of Great Britain and France. This was about war loans, funding and refunding, payback and big money. You simply had to make sure that France, Britain and Russia would win the war or there would be no payback and no war profit at all. But things didn’t go well for the Allies, there was a stalemate and neither side could prevail. So, you had to get involved directly. All this high falutin talk about “moral principles,” “saving civilisation from barbarity” etc. is just for the people in order to make them believe that you are fighting for a just cause. War is about big money, one should know this.
Speaking about James Bacque you’re just repeating some assertions made by Stephen Ambrose, a pro-Eisenhower historian who dismisses Bacque`s claims as conspiracy theory, but you fail to mention that Bacque’s claims have never been refuted. There are other historians, like Colonel Ernest Fisher, a military historian who was involved into the 1945 investigations into allegations of misconduct by U.S. troops in Germany, and he says that Bacque’s claims are accurate.
Allied terror bombing of German cities was
– an infringement of the Geneva Convention
– uncivilised
– barbaric
– unnecessary
and it didn’t break German morale. On the contrary, the more bombs were dropped on our cities, the stronger the resilience of German civilians became, and Germany stepped even up its war efforts.
But instead of acknowledging these atrocities as war crimes and offering an apology for them, you embark on justifying them, saying “sometimes civilized polities have to stoop as low as the barbarian in order to save civilisation.” How do you dare pretend that Germany is a barbaric nation? Germany has an old and highly sophisticated culture, and that didn’t change, even when Hitler ruled over Germany.In many aspects is our culture superior to your American, materialistic and money-grabbing “civilisation.”
The “civilisational” argument has been used by every tyrant and dictator since Julius Caesar to justify their ambitions. In truth it means nothing but “vae victis,” “the end justifies the mean,” “the winner takes it all,” “might makes right,” double standards etc.
You defeated Germany in WWII, because you had more ressources, more arms and more allies than Germany, not because you were morally superior to us.
I am done with you, Wellington, and if your German ancestors could read what you are saying about their country, they would be ashamed of you.
Mark Swan says
Hi The European—I am certain no one can explain man’s human nature in a good light to me.
Regardless of what political spins have been put on it—far too many decent humans on both
sides were drawn into that nightmare—no one should look to justify any part of it.
As far as the German people are concerned—their quality, and contributions to the world speaks
for itself—none better—anywhere.
Wellington says
Well, next time, The European, don’t hold back and sugar coat things as you did. No, not at all. Just tell me what you really think about me. Don’t worry. I can take it.
Now, point by point, I will respond to you.
Both the UK and the Second Reich tried to starve each other out of the war. Here I take no side, just state the facts. Actually, the reason why Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 is because it made a calculation that though the resumption would almost certainly bring America into the war against it, it could win the war before America’s impact could be felt. I don’t believe that here we will have any dispute, though Germany calculated wrongly in this regard.
As for your claim that American ships were carrying all kinds of ammunition to benefit Britain, this is simply false. The Lusitania “incident” (yes, I know the Lusitania was a British ship) is a good case in point. Germany claimed it sunk the Lusitania because it was carrying major arms. This was not true. Germany lied. It had some minor armaments and no more. Ditto for other bogus claims by the Second Reich, especially where American ships were concerned.
Respecting financial incentives for America to enter the war, frankly I think you are bordering on desperate here. This is a tired old story and not worthy of further comment but believe this rot if you like.
The fact that America took until April of 1917 to enter WWI is indicative is how much opposition existed in America to entering the war at all (ditto for America entering WWII only after it too had been going on for more than two years). Look, I don’t know how much you know about America (not much I believe) but I can tell you as a life-long American America from colonial times onwards has wanted nothing to do with the rest of the world. America was founded so as to get away from Europe et al. Americans to this day have a deeply isolationist strain in them (I certainly do), but so much of the rest of the world is so screwed up that America, how ironically, has had to come to the rescue of the world several times over in the course of the last hundred years or so. Hey, imagine this: The last hundred years of mankind with one difference, everything else the same: No American military. Think the world would be a better place today? My God man, don’t you even realize, as the Canadian, Mark Steyn, has said, that a world without America would be a world subject to the tyrants of the earth? Do you not get even this?
Ambrose initially praised Bacque’s work but he, along with many other historians, after delving into the details, realized that Bacque’s assessments were seriously flawed. Even if you disagree with Ambrose et al. here, what you can’t deny is that Bacque’s assertions are questioned at least as much as Fischer’s have been.
Finally, Winston Churchill, great man that he was, sadly concluded that the only way to end the menace of Nazi Germany was to take the war to Germany. This is what the Allies did. Can you propose how the Allies could have ended the barbarity which was Nazi Germany (I hope at least you acknowledge that Nazi Germany was outside the orb of civilization) or Imperial Japan without devastating these nations which started the largest war in history?
I never give up and I never know when to quit. Your turn.
The European says
To Wellington
Balfour: ” It’s probably foolish for our part that we don’t come up with a reason to declare war on Germany, before she builds too many ships and kicks us out of world trade.”
White: “I consider you a noble man, but when it comes to politics you think of unleashing a war against a harmless nation which is entitled to have a fleet, as much as you are.”
Balfour “Well, then we would have to lower our standard of living, but I think, a war would be better for us.”
White: “I am appalled at your uttering of such principles.”
Balfour: “Is that a question of right or wrong? Isn’t this just about maintaining our supremacy?”
This is an excerpt from a conversation between Arthur James Earl of Balfour, British Prime Minister from 1902-1905, and Henry White, an American ambassador to GB. The conversation took place in 1910.
It speaks volumes about Brtain’s readiness to go to war with Germany, about her belligerence and about her fear of being outstripped by German performance.
How did the British get their empire? By praying and hoping? Who led the most wars in world history? Yes, the British, but France comes second on the list. 90% of all the countries that exist today, have been invaded by the Brits. Only 22 countries ( there are about 200 today) didn’t have this pleasure yet. What can we conclude from that? Is Great Britain a nation of ruthless pirates, overbearing conquerors, megalomaniac imperialists, greedy traders and unscrupulous warmongers? (cf. Stuart Laycock: All the countries we have ever invaded and the few we never got round to)
One word abou Hitler
If WWII had been about Hitler’s removal from power and the undoing of natinal-socialism, this could have been achieved before the war – without carpet bombing and mass killings of innocent civilians. There were some opportunities to do this. One of them came about in 1938, shortly before the Munich Conference. When the old Prussian elite which consisted mainly of high-ranking professional officers finally understood what Hitler was up to (He was prepared to go to war with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland and thereby risking a war which Germany could never win), they decided to dispose of him, to eliminate the nazi regime and to restore Wilhem II as Emperor. That was the Oster conspiracy. Hans Oster was deputy head of the Abwehr (counter-espionnage, headed by Admiral Canaris, another consirator, like von Halder, von Weizäcker, von Witzleben and others who worked for the German Foreign Office and were trying to kill Hitler). But their plot could only be carried out with success, if they received substantial help from the British. Neville Chamberlain and his diplomats only needed to stubbornly make no concessions to Hitler on the issue of the Sudetenland. They only needed to be steadfast at Munich. But if Hitler would be the winner at Munich, being celebrated as the greatest German statesman of all times, a coup d’état would be impossible, since his popularity with the Germans would be too great.
A man named Erich Kordt who was a diplomat at the German embassy in London would try to get in touch with British politicians, tell them about the plans of the conspirators, and asking the British for help. But the British didn’t even hear him, they simply ignored him, as they ignored all approches made by the German resistence movement.
Why? The answer is that Hitler and his regime were never the first priority of British politics. It was all about their empire, the balance of power, British supremacy and the alleged threat of a strong German nation which had emerged powerfully from the ashes of WWI.
Churchill said in 1936: “Germany is too strong, she must be destroyed.”
He didn’t say: “Hitler and his totalitarian regime are a threat to world peace,” and he didn’t say either: ” We must remove Hitler from power, because he treats the Jews in a most barbaric way.
Another Quotation shows that he was primarily concerned wit finance, trade and profit:
“Germany’s most unforgivable crime before the Second World War was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world’s trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance ist opportunities to profit.”
Quite bizarre, isn’t it? One should think the “most unforgivable crime” would have been the ill-treatment of our Jewish population, but no, according to Winston Churchil is is the fact that Germany refused to be squeezed out by international bankers.
I think it is time to debunk the myth that the allies had fought the two World Wars for a just and noble cause.
A last word about the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a big passenger steamer which belonged to the Cunard company.
It was a passenger steamer, yes, but in the lists of the British admiralty and in Jane’s fighting ships it figured as an auxiliary cruiser.
On March 8th 1915, the captain of the Lusitania resigned from his post, saying that he refused to bear responsability for all that mixing up of passengers, ammunition and smuglling goods.
On April 22nd 1915 the German embassy in Washington tried to place announcements in 50 newspaper which were based on the east coast, telling voyagers that German submarines would sink any ship flying the flag of Great Bitain or the flag of British allies. These announcements couldn’t be published by the newpapers, because the US Foreign Office intervened
The Lusitania left New York on the 1st of May 1915 and when it approached the coasts of Ireland, the British destroyer Juno which was supposed to escort the Lusitania, was nowhere to been seen. More:The Lusitania was even advised to slow down ( a slow ship is an easy target for submarines).
When the Lusitania was hit by just one torpedo, there was a tremendous blast on board and the ship sank immediately ( ammunition? It has never been proven, but she might have carried up to six million rounds of ammo). That’s all very strange, isn’t it? Food for thought?
And no, I don’t think that Europe or Germany Needs the protection of American arms. We can fend four ourselves and we are able to defend our countries militarily by ourselves
Mark Swan says
I have descended from German and English ancestors—I of course favor both.
Here is something about the Germans most may not be familiar with.
Hitler rose to power during the turmoil of a worldwide depression, but his ideas were drawn from long-standing German values and traditions. Germany’s warlike behavior and glorification of battle—recognized long ago by the Romans—reappears consistently in the nation’s history. But where did the Germans develop the fixation for precision and martial behavior that so distinguishes their national character? Who were the ancestors of the Germanic tribes that migrated from the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas? Striking parallels if you consult a map showing the Black and Caspian Seas, and look in several history books for the nations that occupied this area of the world in the 1st and 2nd millennia bc and exhibited militaristic traits similar to the Germans, you quickly discover some very interesting facts.
Assyria and a neighboring kingdom (the Hittites) dominated that part of the world. Read what historians and archaeologists have learned about these ancient nations. Notice their distinctive national character traits. Compare those traits to the ones for which Germans have been noted in the last 2,000 years. It will not take you long to begin to realize you are onto something! The most outstanding feature of Assyria and the Hittites, setting them apart from their contemporaries, was their militarism, which aided them in creating and maintaining an empire. The Assyrian army was the mightiest the ancient world had ever seen. Hittite power also rested on military prowess. As were Prussia and Germany, Assyria was looked upon as a nation of warriors, and the Assyrian government was primarily an instrument of war. The Assyrians developed a strongly centralized form of government under an absolute ruler.
Initially, Assyrian conquests gained and maintained control of vital trade routes, in order to translate the emerging economic unity of the Near East into political unity—as is happening in Europe today! The military tactics of the Assyrians and Hittites, like the Germans and Prussians, stressed rapid troop movements and surprise. Each developed a reputation for advancing the technology of war. The Assyrians, like the Germans at various times in their history, were notorious for using extreme acts of cruelty—to intimidate and control conquered peoples. Both nations deported conquered peoples to different locations on a massive scale to obtain forced labor and break morale. Both peoples also practiced genocide. Assyrian art and literature glorify the destructiveness and brutality of war. Virtually the same could be said for the writings of von Clausewitz and other Prussian and German authors.
Surrounding nations finally ganged up on and defeated the Assyrians—as Allied nations twice did to Germany in the 20th century. Assyria’s sudden collapse poses problems for historians. The Assyrians seem to disappear into the mists of history, in the area of the Black Sea. Interestingly, the ancestors of the Germans emerge in the same region. Germany’s cultural history and national character resemble Assyria’s like no other nation.
Both Assyria and Germany stand unique in history for exactly the same reasons: thoroughly militarized societies, the glorification of war, brutally efficient armies, deliberately calculated acts of extreme cruelty, mass deportations, slave labor camps, and genocide—all centrally administered with incredible efficiency. The histories of both nations reveal periods of powerful military resurgence after periods of decline. These parallels are striking and unique in the story of human civilization!
The Assyrian Empire developed from the city-state of Asur (named for Asshur, a son of Shem—one of Noah’s three sons—see Genesis 10:1, 22). Asshur was a brother of Arphaxad—an ancestor of Abraham, who was the father of the Hebrews (Genesis 11:10–26). Thus, true Assyrians and the descendants of Abraham (the Israelites) are kindred peoples. The name Assur means “leader” or “successful.” Josephus, writing in the first century ad, writes that the Assyrians “became the most fortunate of nations, beyond others” (Antiquities of the Jews, 1:6:6). In light of their abilities and contributions to Western civilization, this is also true for the Germans. Assur was worshiped as the chief god of Assyria—the god of war—and was portrayed as a solar deity with a winged disc. The Hittites also used both the winged disc and the swastika. The swastika is a symbol for the sun, power, energy. An ancient swastika has been found on a limestone slab in front of a temple of Assur (In Search of… The Origin of Nations, White, p. 311). The Hittites and Assyrians also used a double-headed eagle to symbolize the sky gods—storm, thunder and the sun. These symbols reappear in the culture of Germany, Prussia and Austria, and especially the Third Reich. The Hittites (whom Assyria eventually conquered and absorbed) show linguistic and cultural links with two of the German tribes—Hessians and Prussians. Even more interesting, as historian Josef Bihl noted, are that Germany’s oldest city, Trier, was founded in about 2000bc by Trebeta, the son of an Assyrian king named Ninus (In Deutschen Landen, p. 69).
Visitors can still read an inscription on a historic house in Trier’s marketplace, stating that this Assyrian colony was founded 1,300 years before Rome. Some historians have described the Assyrians as the “Prussians of the Ancient World” (The Ideal and Destiny, McCulloch, p. 224), submissive to centralized authority, with a “deep rooted feeling of superiority”—the idea of being a “master race” (Mass Deportations and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Obed, p. 89). The Assyrians were extremely nationalistic, with “a strong sense of participating in a common and native way of life” (ibid., p. 66)—similar to the German idea of a volk or a people. After the fall of the Assyrian Empire, the Roman historian Pliny mentioned a tribe of the “Assyriani” among the Scythian peoples in the Crimea north of the Black Sea (Natural History, Bk IV. XII. 81). The historian Jerome, writing in the 4th century ad, said that the “descendents of Assur” were among the Celto-Scythian-Hun hordes then invading Europe (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Jerome Letter 123, section 16). Researcher Leon Poliakov notes the ancient Bavarian account that the people of Bavaria came into central Europe from the region of Armenia by the Black Sea (The Aryan Myth, p. 76).
Considering this information, it is not surprising to find medieval writers describing the Germans as “Assyrians” (Israelites und Hyksos, Germol, pp. 89–90). The links between Germany and Assyria can be found, and are neither far-fetched nor imagined. Just what is the significance of the striking parallels between ancient Assyria and Germany?
Numerous Bible prophecies clearly indicate that at the end of this age, just before the return of Jesus Christ, Assyria will once again play a pivotal role in world affairs (see Isaiah 10; 11). Yet, when the Medes, Babylonians and Scythians conquered Assyria in 612bc, its ruling class scattered to the north, east and west, leaving behind the conquered peoples the Assyrians had imported to work as laborers (White, p. 15). Some of those polyglot peoples are found today in Iraq, Syria and the Caucasus. The Assyrian nation ceased to exist, but history and prophecy confirm that its cultural heritage can be traced to the modern nation of Germany.
When the Bible speaks of Assyria in the end times, it is speaking of Germany. No other modern nation fits the description so completely. Germany’s return to power in the years since World War II is no accident. God prophesied more than 2,500 years ago that He would bring certain events to pass to accomplish His purpose (Isaiah 46:9–10; Revelation 17:17). Germany is again the leading player in the effort to unite the nations of Europe. Events now underway in Europe will lead to the long-prophesied ten-nation beast power that will again rise out of the ashes of the Roman Empire (Revelation 17:9–14). The Bible shows that Germany will again use religion to help forge a unified European power (Revelation 13; 17:1–7), much as was done under Charlemagne. This emerging configuration will become a global economic power (Revelation 18:2–3, 9–14) and will use that power for political purposes. It will appear peaceful at first, but will be transformed into a devouring, war-making beast (Daniel 11:21; Revelation 13:2–3; Revelation 17:12–14). Daniel describes this end-time kingdom as a strong and ferocious beast with “iron teeth,” which Christ will conquer at His return (Daniel 2:40–45; 7:7, 19–23).
Yet, amazing as it may seem, Bible prophecy also indicates that God will eventually use Assyria—the remarkable German people—as a leading nation for peace in the coming Kingdom of God (Isaiah 19:23–25). God will use the outstanding intellectual and cultural strengths of the German people to help enrich the world during the coming millennial rule of Jesus Christ. As do all peoples of the earth, the Germans have in their national character both strengths and weaknesses. Just as God will use the modern descendants of Assyria to fulfill end-time prophecy in the years ahead, He will use the remarkable strengths of the German people to help their fellow human beings!
gravenimage says
I’m sorry–the claim that Hitler had nothing to do with WWII simply makes no sense.
Granddaddy says
“We have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country.”
“This dismays us,”
This just shows how much the elite is disconnected from God: to say that all they have to do is read the Quran is not true; they have no concept of God so they don’t understand any religion, not just Islam. She should be horrified. And notice, she won’t call them Muslims, which is what they are, she calls them “people of Arab origin”. And she was just recently re-elected for the fourth time. And this in the land of Martin Luther. Has all Germany lost its mind?
Caro K. says
Granddaddy-Your comment is the most astute in this long, august debate. You summed up the heart of the matter: The complete absence of God from the intellectual debate in the West. We are the most secular culture to ever walk the planet, and we are the most impoverished because of it, in our posh houses, going to universities, traveling the world, making godless laws, all the while blind to the true meaning of life=to glorify God.
gravenimage says
Germany: Angela Merkel admits anti-Semitism is coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin”
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Well, this is a good admission.
Now, is she going to do anything to stop more of these genocidal Jew haters from flooding into Germany? Somehow I doubt it…