Posted on 11/10/2006 1:06:31 AM PST by twinself
A GROUP of German neo-Nazis, some shouting "Sieg Heil", rampaged in the eastern city of Frankfurt on Oder and destroyed wreaths placed to mark the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogrom against the Jews, German TV said today.
German television network ZDF reported the neo-Nazis tore apart floral wreaths and threw away candles placed at a memorial marking a destroyed synagogue in the Polish border city late on Thursday – 68 years after the Nazis' Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass".
A spokeswoman for the Frankfurt on Oder police said she could not confirm the report and that the state prosecutors office was responsible. The state prosecutors office was not immediately available for comment.
German television reported that 19 people between the ages of 15 and 24 were detained after the attack.
Earlier in the day President Horst Koehler, in a speech broadcast on national television as he attended the consecration of a new synagogue in Munich, warned that anti-Semitism was still present in Germany.
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WOW! It takes balls to attack a memorial.
The Nazi's should team up with the Muslims and the Homsexuals and form an org called:
CAIR-HAIR-NAIR
Germans haven't changed. They still love Hitler and hope the Islamonazis finish off the Jews for them.
There's certain Hitler sentiment among common Germans I've met but showing it officially would mean political suicide and German elites knowing it try supress it. It is therefore socially sublimed to the form of politically correct "expelled" societies, Wehrmacht cult within Budeswehra and officially registered NPD party gaining wider and wider support. Anyhow Western Germans are going to have a BIG problem with their muslim minority but nazi pussies from Frankfurt know nothing about it.
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There is some anti-German sentiment amount this American and he isn't afraid to say so.
They are still ticked off about losing the war (two wars) and blame the very people they tried to totally exterminate.
How many ever wondered why Germany was sliced in two in 1945?
A united Germany always brings out the worst in the Germans.
What I really don't like to see is that the judge decided there was no reason to keep those Neonazis in jail because "there was no danger of repeating or fleeing". I got used to having some of these idiots around, but I'm not going to get used to the government being soft on them any time.
How many Germans have you met in person? How many times have you been to Germany?
Michael...relax...it's just a Cowboy, Kraut.
You bring a refreshing overview to the situation. I hope I did not sound to hard in my previous comments.
Asking me if I have visited Germany is like me asking you, do you have to visit Greenland to realize it's bloody cold.
Others I know did indeed 'visit' Germany, the hard way, as in playing a part in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Anyway, being a West German, I totally agree with you that the Reunification was a bad idea.
I fully realize neo-nazi types are on both side of the Atlantic, causing trouble in various nations.
So you say you can determine an entire nation when reading articles which would be local news in all other states except for Germany like you can determine the climate of a country when looking at the weather data?
You know "enough" Germans, great. You sound as if you still hang in the past, claiming that Germans didn´t get over the defeat of Hitler´s Reich. I have written down my thoughts about the generation of Germans that lived in 1933-45:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735211/posts?page=54#54
Oh, and yes, there are significantly more Nazis in East Germany, and it´s because of several reasons:
A) The level of frustration is higher in the East as the unemployment is double as high as in West Germany.
B) The people in the East feel as citizens of second class, because their system has failed and their way of life ended.
C) The Nazi time was almost non-existant in the history books of the GDR, the people should not concentrate on the defeat by the Soviets but on the enemy in the West.
Nah, I don't think it's the repression. People learned to cope with it a long time ago. But then the wall fell and the East part of Germany rushed in to live the good life they had seen on West German television. They did not want regular food or a decent car, they expected to get BMWs, nylon stockings, they wanted the luxury they had seen on West TV, where everyone seemed to have stuff like this. In other words, they took our capitalist propaganda for real, something a child raised in the West learns to see through very early. Soon they had to realize that things weren't as golden on the other side of the rainbow. In the mean time, the industry of East Germany collapsed. What wouldn't have collapsed because it was inefficient, just collapsed because of investors from the West which tried to get in on the subvention game. Only a few East corporations wich just were top of the line survived (Zeiss Jena for example). This can certainly not explain all the Nazi activity in (East) Germany, but as I see it, the very desolate situation in East Germany, where everyone seeking opportunity has to head West and jobs are still very scarce, has made the East very unstable. The old and the young hopeless people which dwell there are easy prey for extremists from the right and the left (the later ones are at least less threatening to normal citizens). These people are looking for scapegoats for their situations, and foreigners are always the easy scapegoat.
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