December 1932?
- melanieschmoll1
- vor 7 Tagen
- 4 Min. Lesezeit
Here I am again!
I actually wanted to write a post last week, in line with my rhythm, but unfortunately that didn't work out. I am in the process of setting up a new project and that has taken up all my time. Unfortunately, the program I was working with didn't turn out to be as useful as I thought it would be. I spent three days negotiating with a bot to speak to a human - but he only appeared in the chat when I gave up completely exasperated. Email, contact form - none of it was processed. When I then said that I wanted to delete this account, a reply came from a human, Johannes, within seconds. What am I supposed to think? That they were just waiting for me to finally get so fed up with the non-functioning program that I would book the paid service? Well, it didn't work. - I d eleted everything I'd been working on for 2 weeks and am moving the project. 2 weeks in which I not only put my time and energy and joy into the project - all unpaid, of course - but also couldn't take on any other jobs. So, basically, 2 weeks in which I earned nothing. But well and good. Experience has taught us everything!
That was the promised look behind the scenes of a freelancer's work! 😊
What else was going on?
Well, a Jew-hating bodyguard and police officer of one of Germany's best-known Holocaust survivors has been dismissed and removed from his job by his employer, the police, because of his Jew-hating whatsapp messages. They met in court in the winter and now the details of the judge's decision have come to light: The police lost because the chat messages were undertaken in private. In these messages, the policeman wished Ms. Knobloch “back to the concentration camp”. He talked about “brown turds” on her doorstep and signed the messages with the abbreviations "HH" and "SH". A Munich court attested that the posts had an “entertainment component”.
I simply don't have the words.
The police officer was merely demoted in his position.
There is massive criticism of the ruling - after all. Nevertheless, I wonder whether the court itself still stands on the ground of our Basic Law. Where are we here?
Weimar December 1932?
A UN Jew-hater is being sanctioned after all - by Trump, who has since been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times lately. This is the world we live in! Just this much about the UN's so-called special rapporteur... I quote from the article by Daniel Neumann, from the Jüdische Allgemeine of June 9, 2025:
"But it gets even better: Albanese is not only skilled at spreading anti-Semitic lies. No. She also likes to tell fairy tales about herself. For example, she has claimed to be a human rights lawyer for many years. This claim can also be found in her application to the UN for the post of Special Rapporteur on 23 November 2021. She is listed under this title on the official UN website, where her biography can be found: as an international lawyer specializing in human rights and the Middle East.
However, it has now emerged that Francesca Albanese is not a lawyer at all. A fact that she has now openly admitted. In other words, the lawyer is not a lawyer at all, although she has claimed to be one for many years. This is more than just a harmless fairy tale. And it says a lot about the credibility of the special rapporteur, who claims in an interview that she never lies.
Apart from that: In many countries, the misuse of titles and official designations is a criminal offense. But perhaps the UN envoy is also under special protection? One thing is certain: The UN's neutral, objective and unbiased human rights lawyer is neither neutral nor objective nor unbiased. Neither is the UN or the Human Rights Council that appointed her. Above all, she is not a lawyer. She is something else: she is a liar."
And then there was this: The Federal Government and public Berlin celebrated 70 years of the Federal Republic of Germany's membership of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
On May 6, 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty, which is the legal basis for the transatlantic defense alliance NATO. At that time, the Second World War and the crimes committed by National Socialist Germany were only ten years old. The admission of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO was a milestone for post-war Germany on its way back into the international community of states. Incidentally, the Bundeswehr was only founded six months later.
The border between the blocs, between East and West, ran right through divided Germany. It had to be assumed that Germany would become a battlefield in the event of an armed confrontation. By integrating the Federal Republic into NATO and founding the Bundeswehr, the Soviet Union was to be deterred from attacking Central Europe. Germany was a frontline state in the Cold War. Hundreds of thousands of NATO and Warsaw Pact soldiers faced each other on both sides of the German-German border, and nuclear weapons were stationed on both sides of the border. The result was a fragile but nonetheless functioning system of mutual deterrence: the fact that both sides had to reckon with a nuclear counter-attack from their rival ensured peace in Europe in the decades that followed.
A lot has happened since then, of course, but - and this is actually a personal concern for me, as I grew up in West Germany, just a 30-minute drive from the inner-German border - I have always seen NATO as our great guarantee of security. The idea of a defense alliance - and that's what NATO is in the political science sense, an alliance and an alliance is a defense covenant - and the idea that we in West Germany are not alone, has somehow always reassured me.
What an achievement that we were allowed to be part of it! And that even though we didn't exactly make the biggest contributions.
Thank you for the leap of faith and the decades of support.
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