On Monday, as usual, I sent my column text to the editors. On Thursday, the day after a Nazi ran amok in Halle, I write this PS:
Values government, within the law: Fight and persecute and outlaw right-wing extremists! If you do not want or can not, just step back! Sincerely, your wife Berg.
So, and now to the text that has emerged so strangely premature:
As the world rearranges itself - irresolute, whether it is to go to extinction or survival - fascists worldwide try to use the vacuum created by too rapid, colliding developments. In the midst of this time, Marko Feingold died at the age of 106. And again it was one less who survived the Nazi murders.
Every Jew, Sinti, Roma, every survivor of the Nazis who disappears, makes my fear grow. Before that, there will soon be no one left to bear witness only to his presence in our world. In the time when the incomprehensible is again possible, where politicians in the German Bundestag deny a concentration camp survivor the respect, molesting Jews haters through the streets, make members of parties in former concentration camp jokes, question the mass murder, in the network Again, murder fantasies and violence against minorities are to be read.
The people of the world are afraid of Germany
How will it become, when no one remembers the crime, when they roar louder again and legitimize the crimes of their ancestors, ignore or deny when they are ridiculed by imported hatred of Jews, and no one lives up to them the good old saying: "Germans must be with some Simply shut up topics. " That command the knowledge and the shame. It disappears. Along with the moment when Germans could be proud of their country in the short term, silly as it is. Some time ago, Germany was exemplary in dealing with the Nazi past, a country in which minorities hopefully felt reasonably safe.
Now it starts again. The people of the world are afraid of Germany. Of course, these are isolated cases, you have to repeat that until you believe it. Isolated cases, that dissenters, politicians, activists, artists, Jews are on death lists, that courts, police and army have been infiltrated by fascists that a troop of psychopaths yells and roars through Berlin : "If we want, we'll kill you."
The "We for Germany" demo so far: A whole Reich citizen block and the loudspeaker car runs a soundtrack from the band, in which the dissolution of the BRD GmbH is required. Please do not read again, this is a "populist" demo # b0310 pic.twitter.com/p223tpMfVB
- Felix Huesmann (@felixhuesmann) 3 October 2019At last Germany is again. It has again become a state that is feared. Not because of the so-called imported anti-Semitism, the imported hostility towards homosexuals, but because of the rise of the new fascists.
Hooray.
A society defines itself by how it deals with minorities
Do you remember the Nazi, who was standing in front of a dorm in Rostock with his trousers and Hitler salute? The iconic image had caused disgust in middle-class, conservative circles. Today you talk to that kind of birds, you sit in the parliament next to them, you interview them on talk shows, invites them, you start to think about whether they are possibly humiliated, or a little truth in their roar.
A society defines itself by how it deals with minorities. Any attack - verbal or physical - directed against members of a minority has the goal of ending democracy. It is an attack on all who are not fascists.
That is why society, the majority, must act while it is still possible. Work hard with those who want to make Germany again a country that is viewed with disgust that you do not want to travel, in which you neither want to study nor invest. Do not choose fascists, do not interview them. Outlaw fascists wherever you see them.
