Lateral thinker vortex: Eleven-year-old feels "like Anne Frank" - "Reaching now specifically for children"

Are the Corona protests being infiltrated by right-wing extremists?

The demo speech by an eleven-year-old causes horror.

Experts see a pattern behind the incident.

Karlsruhe - It

is no longer surprising

that children are

among the protesters

in

.

Not even that they are on stage.

The fact that an eleven-year-old compares her birthday with the situation of the

in World War II

under corona-related restrictions

triggers outrage and calls the authorities to the scene.

From the point of

view of experts, the

case from

could represent a questionable trend.

Corona protests of "lateral thinking": Public prosecutor's office is examining allegations of speech by an eleven-year-old

The

had read a speech on the stage on Saturday in which she said the

was very different from the previous years: “We had to be quiet the whole time because otherwise we might have been tipped off by our neighbors would be.

I felt like I was with Anne Frank in the Secret Annex, where they had to be as quiet as a mouse to avoid getting caught. ”Up to 1000 people had gathered at the demo.

Several media had reported about the child's statements.

This was preceded by a debate about denunciation in connection with corona rules - in other words, in a completely different context than with the murderous

.

According to a police spokesman, the public prosecutor's office must clarify whether a criminal offense such as denying the Shoah is present.

But, according to the spokesman: "Not everything that is morally reprehensible is also a criminal offense." Https://t.co/UNGzZF0NLW

- Jüdische Allgemeine (@JuedischeOnline) November 17, 2020

The police described the comparison on Twitter as "completely inappropriate and tasteless" and gave the documentation of the case to the

prosecutor for examination

by the

on Tuesday.

According to a police spokesman, this must clarify whether a criminal offense such as

is present.

But he also said: 

The city of

, where the girl lives, announced that the youth welfare office would seek a conversation with the pupil's parents.

Right-wing extremism in Germany: Corona protests infiltrated?

Green country chief Kretschmann warns

The case is now making waves in Baden-Württemberg state politics.

He does not know the event, said

(Greens) on Tuesday.

If the girl did that, it was "completely absurd".

(CDU)

criticized the situation of the eleven-year-old and Anne Franks

.

Anne Frank

had lived with her family in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944 in hiding from the German National Socialists and wrote her

.

She

at the age of 15.

Kretschmann also warned of an increasing

.

There are signs that the movement is increasingly being infiltrated by right-wing extremists, he said.

The views that the "lateral thinkers" represent are not fact-oriented, for the most part absurd and difficult to understand.

It is worrying that there are more and more links to right-wing extremism and right-wing radicalism.

Anti-Semitism among Corona opponents?

"Now reaching specifically for children"

The

the Baden-Württemberg state government, Michael Blume, spoke of a "new escalation": Nazi comparisons had been made all the time during the protests against the corona policy.

"What is new is that children are being pushed into aggressive roles and to participate," said Blume.

"Anti-Semitism is now specifically targeting children and using children specifically to break taboos." Another example is

,

, which are geared specifically towards children and young people.

The

logic of

the

is about protecting the most important things in life, said Blume.

For some people this could be skin color, money or even their own children.

Some

myths involve kidnapped and tortured children.

"Children are a good trigger," he said of the

.

Factual, unexcited clarification is important.

You will hardly get to those affected, admitted Blume.

“We have to live with the fact that we won't reach everyone.

But we have to educate the many people we can reach. ”Parents must also be made clear“ what they are doing to their children with it ”.

Corona rules: Anne Frank as a point of comparison - Pocher takes up the incident

"I don't know what went wrong in

my upbringing,

" said Timo Werner from the

Landau, which is located in a house originally owned by Anne Frank's family in Landau in the Palatinate , the

.

But the sound is nothing new.

“You stand in the tradition of the greatest injustice.

No more points are exchanged, but extreme arguments. "

The Karlsruhe

Bundestag and

explained: "How" lateral thinking "and the like try to instrumentalize children, their needs and their health for their own purposes, makes me stunned." Germany.

took up the speech of the eleven-year-olds in a post on Instagram and said: “That is pretty much the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.” But he does not blame the child, but his parents.

“We don't live in a dictatorship,” he emphasized.

Corona in Germany: Protests of lateral thinking continue to cause a stir and concern

From the demonstration organizers of “lateral thinking 721”, the Karlsruhe offshoot of the “lateral thinking” movement founded in Stuttgart, there was initially no response on request.

Meanwhile, there is also concern about possible renewed lateral thinking meetings in Leipzig - there recently demonstrations got massively out of hand.

In view of a new corona law by the federal government, rallies are also registered in front of the Reichstag in

- but they could be banned at this point for security reasons.

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