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Great example of gulf between Merkel's rhetoric and reality in Germany. For western liberals, her remarks are like a soothing herbal tea, welcome reassurance that all will be well if the world follows the sober German example. But then then the Nazis spoiled things...1/5 https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1325822934502543360
Just hours after Merkel's remarks, a group of Nazis observed Kristallnacht in Dresden with a march through the center of town, replete with a swastika sign and the raised-arm "heil hitler" greeting...2/3 https://www.mopo.de/news/politik-wirtschaft/-geschmacklos--empoerung-ueber-rechte-demo-an-gedenktag-fuer-opfer-der-nazis-37600190
Even as they permitted the Nazi march, Dresden officials cancelled a planned Kristallnacht observance with the Jewish community, ostensibly due to corona. 3/4 https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche/juedische-gemeinde-stellt-sich-gegen-pegida-demo/?q=Dresden
Those marking Kristallnacht at home were treated to a film on public television about a Jewish schoolboy in modern Germany who bites off the earlobe of a Muslim boy. The film even includes a character named "Eichmann." 4/4 https://www.welt.de/kultur/article219362332/Das-Unwort-Ein-trauriges-Zeugnis-oeffentlich-rechtlicher-Realitaetsverniedlichung.html
Meanwhile, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Germany are rising to levels that, to use a Trumpism, no one has ever seen. At least not since...5/5
