Posted on 11/01/2019 3:39:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The eastern German city of Dresden has passed a resolution declaring a “Nazi emergency.”
In a policy statement, passed by the city council on Wednesday night, councillors noted that “anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, misanthropic and right-wing extremist attitudes and actions, including violence in Dresden, are occurring with increasing frequency.”
“We have a Nazi problem in Dresden and have to do something about it,” said Max Aschenbach, a councillor for Die Partei, a satirical political party, who initiated the measure. […]
The anti-Islam and xenophobic PEGIDA movement began in the city in 2014. PEGIDA, which stands in German for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, organizes regular rallies in the city. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
To be fair, here in Germany, it's a challenge to even only purchase a loaf of bread without incidentally invoking Godwin's Law.
Regards,
“The Hun is either at your feet or at your throat’’.- Winston Churchill.
“even remember it being talked abut by my folks as a kid.”
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You lived in Dresden,Germany both during the WW2 bombing and at present? Because that’s the topic of the convo here. Otherwise you’re off on some trip of your own there, sorry.
Good grief!
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