Nearly 80 years after the Nazis surrendered, bringing about the end of World War II, the totalitarian specter of Adolf Hitler and his genocidal war criminals still haunts Germany.
So much so that the German political establishment constantly expresses concerns about extremists – which may be a good thing, but it has also become an over-the-top smears to smear any right-wing or populist movement, whether or not it has actual extremist tendencies.
But when confronted with the real life of modern-day Nazis in Ukraine, German leaders do not seem to mind or even acknowledge their presence, and in fact offer them their full, continuing and unequivocal support.
If we take a closer look at the three-party coalition led by Olaf Scholz, we see that the most ardent supporters of the Nazis in Kiev were the left-wing “green” politicians, such as Foreign Minister Annalina Baerbock.
Last January, Baerbock and Chancellor Schulz attended a rally in Potsdam against the resurgent AfD party.
“Berbock told the German news agency that she and other local residents are taking a ‘stand for democracy and against old and new fascism.’”
But is she really against fascism and Nazism?
Now German newspaper BILD comes out with a damaging report, based on leaked documents, that Baerbock's grandfather was “Unconditional National Socialist Who read the book Mein Kampf and completely sided with the Nazi regime.
RT reported:
“Baerbock has spoken publicly about her grandfather’s wartime experiences, telling an audience in 2022 that Waldemar Baerbock returned to Germany from the east in early 1945 “as a defeated soldier.”
What Baerbock didn't mention was that her grandfather was a Wehrmacht officer who received one of the Third Reich's highest military decorations, the War Merit Cross with Swords, in 1944. Bild reported on Thursday. The cross was awarded to soldiers “for special services when deployed under enemy arms or for special services in military warfare.”
According to the newspaper, Waldemar Baerbock's military records describe him as an “unconditional National Socialist,” who had read Adolf Hitler's book “Mein Kampf” and whose personality was “entirely rooted in National Socialism.”
Burbock's office stated:The Foreign Minister was not aware of the documents. We may note that this is different from saying that she was not aware of her grandfather's extreme Nazi background.
Baerbock mentioned her grandfather in her 2021 autobiography, but did not mention whether his memoirs contained any references to his supposed Nazi ideology.
On the 80th anniversary of the formulation of the so-called “Final Solution” for European Jewry, Baerbock declared in a public speech that “Even low-level government employees” Of the Third Reich they were responsible for “Crimes and genocide committed by the Nazi regime.”
This has not aged well.
Although, of course, no one can be blamed for the actions of their predecessors, their strong support for Ukraine becomes suspicious in this light.
Annalena Baerbock was co-leader of the 90/Greens coalition in Germany before becoming foreign minister in late 2021. An ardent interventionist, Baerbock has steered the party away from its long-standing pacifist policy, and is said to have He pushed Chancellor Olaf Scholz to approve heavy weapons shipments to Ukraine. While her party's 2021 manifesto explicitly stated that it wanted to “end European arms exports to war and crisis zones,” Germany has become the second-largest arms supplier to Kiev after the United States.
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