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Just finished your video and i am i feel so overwelmed. Left a comment earlier befor seeing the end. Hermanplatz, Rathaus Neukölln my old neigborhood. I knew how bad it is cause i still read german news/forums. But seeing the cops arest the woman with the cardboard on Hermanplatz or the candels beeing stept on. What a insanity. (Germaness) Thank you for your work. Stay safe… Take care!
It took me a while to be able to fully watch the video but I think you may have made one of the most comprehensive essays on the subject of not only the history which has led to the current situation in Germany but in general Europe, but also how the spectre of fascism was never truly stamped out. A similar history to the one of Germany is what currently also happened and goes on in Greece with the ever existent present of fascist and collaborators in government institutions and the political stage. The "crusade against communism" is what led to multiple decades of fascist and authoritarian regimes to rule over and to erase the history of those who committed the crimes and exterminations of so many to the point of the return of those ideas as "valid alternatives". And with the current government and most of the opposition being pro Israel, it shows that no matter how liberal one shows themselves, the interests of the military industrial complex and of the status quo rules over all show of care and empathy. Our days and age is but the era where history is repeated under a veil of liberalism and democracy that hides the rotting corpse of capitalism and imperialism as it continues to allow and push for the desecration of the working class. As you said in the end, anger is a true feeling one must fuel themselves if they wish to see change and true humanity come to the foreground. For it is the fuel to rise and protest against allowing such genocide to continue and for society to think of other humans as lower than them. Hopefully with effort things will begin to change and for the people to rise, only through our work can this be accomplished.
Thank you for your comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I am not super familiar with the situation in Greece right now but I would like to educate myself about it, do you have any book/video/website recommendations to understand it better?
@@antonioalexander1While a lot of information on the deeper aspects of Greek history are lacklusterly translated, theres plenty of information on the modern rise of fascism in Greece. For starters, a great documentary is Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair, which looks into the history of the party and its rise: th-cam.com/video/4P8gyTPy-kM/w-d-xo.html Along with this paper showing the further expansion of different ideologies of fascism in Greece post their downfall and declaration as a criminal syndicate: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20419058211000999 www.humanrights360.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Golden-Dawn_Eleni-Takou.pdf The problem with sadly greek sources is that they are rarely translated or academic papers are behind paywalls in regards to the history of Interwar Greece and its transition from Metaxism (A Syncretic version of Italian fascism), to the authoritarian military regimes and unstable governments propped up by the UK and US and the military junta of the 60s-70s. A pretty clear sign of its anti-communist and authoritarian history when it comes to the Greek state is the recognition of the National Resistance (a major force of communist guerrilas and partisans called EAM and ELAS who liberated Greece without foreign forces) only in the 1970s after the fall of the Junta. As you said in the end of your video, a great movie to see such a vast history of Greece and to see the divisions and historical aspects of authoritarianism and anti-communism is the Travelling Players. It is a great starter to get a more personal idea from the view of the people of the different eras and politics: archive.org/details/the.-travelling.-players.-1975.-drama-history.-720p.x-264-classics I would be more than willing to assist you further with reading as I find more translated to English if you wish as Greece was but a microcosm of the wider geopolitical theater of the Cold War and the influence and wishes of the West despite what it may cause. I hope these are good start.
Yup. Same as in Croatia and Serbia where they are rehabilitatating Nazi collaborators (Ustase, in Croatia, Chetniks in Serbia). Then again, we see the same thing happening in Ukraine. Zelensky has banned opposition and essentially killed the unions and they are rehabbing Bandera and other Ukranian Nazis. Then you have the likes of Meloni in Italy, Orban in Hungary...and you realize it's the same old sh*t again.
The Zone of Interest was a good film to watch. I watched this film at the cinema and this film was so eerie, and I recommend reading a Manga Monster set talk about post-War Germany and Neo-Nazism.
No matter what facts state, there will always be one person or a group of people who are in denial of a country's dark past or the past sins of the country
Its not really that Germans are in denial of the past. Actually the whole oposite. Especially the Shoa and the suffering of the jews in particular. One could argue that this took such extreme forms that, like the examples in the end of the video show, that jews can be persecuted again if they “are the wrong jews”. I had to so often think about Herman Göhrings famous qoute: “wer Jude ist bestimme ich”. (I decide who is a jew). Espacially in context of liberal/lefty over indendification with Israel. Now Palestinians and pro pal. Jews disturbe this fragile ballance of german “Selbstbild”. “Die Kraft die Gutes will und Böses schafft.” Ghoete / Faust
"Germans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust" is such a chilling yet depressingly true statement. It's a similar experience in America. The white™ American's most feared word is "racist." Every country with a fascist past from the US to Germany to Japan, no one seems to wanna truly deal with these problems. It's not about guilt. It's about understanding and doing better. Better by doing everything you can to help your fellow hunan being and fight against genuine evil.
Amazing video. Great job. It's amazing how the poison of the past is still lingering, i had no idea how deep it ran. It's infuriating to see hate destroying the new generations while the perpetrators just continue to gain more power
Wow. Great video. You should make another one and talk about the Red Army Faction. The RAF seems like literally the only people in West Germany that punished any ex Nazis in any way what so ever and how the state literally moved heaven and earth to find and punish them. There was a movie about it called The Baader Meinhoff Complex
Pretty much the same thing happened in Japan, too. Really, I kind of feel bad for the Italians, they really got the short end of the stick on WW2 being the only loser.
hey, i mean at least japan had an atomic bomb dropped on them and is not using their past to victimize another group of ppl somewhere else. i would take that over whatever tf germany is doing
@@lunali7209 the atomic bombs have, in fact, saved the japanese ruling class from true justice. the dropping of the bombs finally served as justification for inconditional surrender to the americans - which was clearly preferable to having to fight with (and capitulate to) the oncoming red army - that had already liberated manchuria, korea and sakhalin island. the atomic bombs ended up leaving the japanese monarchy and its ruling classes intact by doing this - and, as such, this would go on to form a japan after the war that, ruled mostly by the same rulers, denied its crimes. japan to this day has not aknowledged most of its crimes and anti-chinese and anti-korean sentiments are still prevalent. for example, shinzo abe, prime minister of japan for many years in this century and recently assassinated, was the grandson of nobusuke kishi, who was also prime minister of japan, but, mainly was a colonial bureaucrat and known violent leader in japanese-occupied manchuria and minister of hideki tojo - the japanese prime minister during the war and one of the few japanese to have been judged after it.
"Surely, with unlimited ressources and advances in bow-hunting, the native indians would have conquered the moon by 1970, if it weren't for those european protestants."
The most important factor at the end of WW1 was the communications instigated by the German government, namely Prince von Baden with President Wilson through the Swiss embassy. This all began on October 5th and they exchanged 5 or 6 notes. Von Baden said that Germany wanted to put an end to the bloodshed, it was never question of surrender, and was willing to comply with Wilson's 14 points published after a speech in January 1918 in which he proposed the concept of 'Peace without Victory', his only requirements being the abdication of the Kaiser and the creation of a republic to replace the monarchy, which the Germans agreed to and implemented in no time at all. Then, Wilson sort of told them that the military had to leave their weapons where they were and could go home in peace, nothing else would be required of Germany, it was all over. When he contacted the governments of France and Britain about the agreement, at first they refused so he threatened them with economic sanctions so they had no choice, telling him that they agreed but they never did, they had lied. During the Versailles debates (there was no negotiations) it became clear that the war had been about the destruction of Germany's fast growing economic and industrial power, felt like an existential threat by the old European empires, incapable of fighting a fair capitalist competition, whose only solution was war... the Kaiser never saw it coming, him who had never fought a war in his life, and would do anything to avoid one. Therefore, when the German delegation finally went to Versailles, convinced they would be negotiating the minor terms of a peace already agreed to, they couldn't believe the monstrous terms of the treaty, and when they tried to negotiate, they were told: either you sign now, or we invade, no negotiations. So then began the Weimar period, a terrible period of hardships, poverty, hunger and death where vicious foreign financiers abused of the situation and bought all thewy could, including family treasures, for pennies on the dollar. That created resentment in the population, a distrust of democracy and total social mayhem so when the national socialists came along, it sounded like the only hope to solve that terrible situation Germany was now in. The greed and vindictiveness of the winners of WW1 were in reality responsible for the Nazis access to power, without it, Hitler would have remained a WW1 corporal, selling paintings to Jewish dealers and slowly making a name for himself, as he had already began doing before being recruited in the army.
As to today's right wing wave, Germany is still under foreign occupation so the government is still not working for the German people, isn't it obvious? Let's take a general vote and see if a majority would back the genocide in Palestine, I don't think so. NATO is the military arm of the US in Europe, Germany must get out of that trap and the Yanks have to go and take their nukes with them, if they don't, the kettle will keep boiling, until it blows up and devastates the country, and most of Europe.
“Fascism is just capitalism in crisis.” - Unknown but usually attributed to Lenin or R. Palme Dutt Whether it be Germany, Italy, Greece, Chile, etc. when communism begins to threaten the industrialists… these people will back Fascism.
Except there is no connection between Fascism and Capitalism. On the contrary, as a socialist ideology Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist. Not to mention that Germany never had Fascism in the first place as it was an Italian ideology and movement. Germany had National Socialism. Funnily enough, Fascists themselves explicitly said that Fascism was an answer to socialism in crisis.
@ Wow, you are all mixed up in the head. I think Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti would be a good place to get yourself acquainted with the ideology and terms.
@@Baphomets_Kid : What does a smooth brain Marxist like Parenti have to do with Fascism? That is like asking about Communism from Trump. Besides, I already know about Fascism. It was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from a French Marxist, known as Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and marxist interpretation of socialism ("class warfare"). Instead, it advocated for class collaboration where the means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions / Fascist Corporatism), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism (Neo-Hegelianism). Being an outgrowth of Sorelian Syndicalism, (which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism), its idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the State, or "embody" the State (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the State, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." As finalized by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile ("the Doctrine of Fascism"), Fascism came from the belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its "dictatorship of the proletariat" cannot be achieved, and that only the State can properly organize a socialist society. Therefore, Fascism cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State. [01] "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile [02] "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile [03] "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri [04] "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice [05] "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor [06] "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio [07] "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio [08] "The Birth of Fascist Ideology" by Zeev Sternhell [09] Any work from Emilio Gentile
I am really thankful to you for your work. I have been looking for such a comprehensive presentation of this huge issue for a long time, but I had not found any. Very few channels post citations as you did, this is very useful for credibility and further research. I think that Germans of the older generations were aware of the Nazis in their government. I am sure that many young Germans know nothing or very little about this, though. If one considers the increasing rate of young people supporting right-wing extremism, this is absolutely worrisome.
german born and raised, while I was always quick to call out the american hypocrisy it really took recent years to see my own biases much clearer and also acknowledge the underlying white supremacism shaping a lot of our current politics, including blindly supporting the genocide of the gazan people while blaming Hamas for everything.
jews are not white. jewish supremacy is not 'white supremacy' in fact its verry anti-white. germans owe that criminal people NOTHING. they owe third world invaders NOTHING either. germany belongs to germans. their the indigenous people of the land. these other groups should leave germany and leave the german people alone.
It's quite clear to me that when Netanyahu says that it was a muslim's idea, it's not about his beliefs, it's about how he spins his agenda. This message seems to be specifically tailored to the general public of the west who doesn't know this part of history, and proceeds to fill in the gap himself with something blatantly false. He probably says something different to the Isreali media, where the people are far more likely to know that it's bullshit, so he focuses on something else. Of course, I have no confirmation about this, and I've been trying to find information or direct translations but haven't seen much yet. I suspect it because it's the same thing Putin has been doing as of late, as his focus on justification for his war in Ukraine is different depending on who he's talking to. To Western audiences, usually it's more focused on Ukraine haboring fascists or NATO aggression, while to his own crowd in Russia, it's more focused on how Ukraine doesn’t have any separate cultural identity. Both are untrue or, at the very least, wildly overstated narratives, yet each is more believable to a different crowd.
My great great grandfather fought the Germans. My great grandfather fought the Germans. Bye god, someday I'll have to fight the Germans. How many times do we have to teach them this lesson man
I understand your point about not mentioning Soviet and East German collaboration with and rehabilitation of Nazis because of the fact that the East German government was dissolved, but the GDR it still had lasting impacts on far-right sentiment in Germany. You talked a lot about the higher ups in the AfD and who funds them, but where they get their voters from is also extremely important. The AfD's base is in the former East German states, and they do significantly better there as compared to West Germany. The contrast is pretty stark. (This is even as East Germany receives a significantly lower percentage of refugees than compared to West Germany.) So while the West did a worse job denazifying people in positions of power, the East did a worse job denazifying the ideology much of the wider population. I believe this to be because of the lasting impact of authoritarianism from East Germany. As you mentioned with examples of former Nazis being allowed to return to several high ranking positions in the Government and within corporations, I vaguely knew about this but some examples you gave still shocked me. Anyways while this is important to consider, it's only half of the picture, and it's also important to consider far-right sentiment in wider society among the people. While the East was more thorough in denazification in the sense of executing and imprisoning them, which is good, but this kind of approach also extended to liberals, social democrats, and even socialists and communists who opposed the Soviets or SED regime. They did not reverse the way of doing things from the Nazi's in regards to authoritarianism, and anti-democracy, which is is a pretty important tenet of Fascism. (Obviously I'm not totally equivocating the SED with the Nazi's who were MUCH worse.) So while those in the West were able to participate in democracy (flawed as it was in West Germany with the banning of the KPD), travel freely, and live in more economic prosperity, the those in the East lived under a dictatorship and a oppressive police state that didn't allow them to leave. Those in the west became more-anti authoritarian by being able to live in and experience a freer society. While most East Germans did not want to live under the SED regime, some began to accept the strongman authoritarian way of doing things, and a small percentage embraced it. By the time the wall fell and the first free elections were held, nobody except the oldest generation of East Germans had participated in a free election, the first time since 1932. While one could blame it partly on just "economic anxiety" in the East, It's my feeling that the AfD is so popular in former East Germany because East Germans had only known authoritarian strongmen ""who at least got stuff done"" for so much of their lives, and so for a certain percent of them, when problems occurred it was easy to blame it on this new liberal democracy way of doing politics as opposed to how it used to be. So they began seeking out that authoritarian strongman again and the AfD presented themselves, propped up and funded by the individuals and organizations you mentioned in the video.
I don't think its a matter of "lingering authoritarian tendencies" or the lack of elections that turned people to the right as you claim. The support for far-right populism is, in my opinion, more easily explained through economic precariousness. When West Germany effectively took over East Germany, all organs of the old system were dismantled. State owned institutions that provided what little income people had were privatized and people were left without an income. This is very similar to what happened after the fall of the USSR, where almost every post-soviet state had to go through "shock therapy" to adapt to the new market oriented model of the economy. And in almost every one of those countries, people started to blame all their problems on the old regime and not the shock therapy they were being forced to go through in the name of free trade; almost invariably all of these states turned to the populist right as people's material conditions worsened. While the former GDR didn't experience as big of an economic shock, the process still left millions poor and desperate. And with the loss of trust in the old communist party (for good reason) combined with West German liberal parties not caring, people turned to the populist right for easy answers.
Yes I agree with @fahadahaf 's points about the economic implications post reunification leading more to what we see in the East nowadays with the East leading in votes for far-right groups like AFD. Also, it has been a generation or two since the reunification, most young people or even in their 30s/40s don't have the experience at all of the GDR or have very faint memories from very young childhood. I don't know if the experience of Authoritarianism in the GDR suffices as an argument now for rising Nazi ideology in the East, unless it's mostly the older generations leading the votes for this party, which I do not know, but I imagine unfortunately it is a lot of people in their 40s and younger as well.
great video that has made me angry again over the racism in germany. i think out of all western countries, the racism in germany is the worst and most insidious. as a turkish person born and raised here, i dont feel at home and im considering moving to turkey someday especially because of everything i have witnessed within the last year. and thats crazy bc turkey is a corrupt country with high numbers of femicides (i am a woman) and low life quality. thats how bad it has gotten in germany. im currently studying to get my masters degree and i cannot describe to you how alienating it is to talk to ANY german these days about anything other than the weather. you would think that surely theres gotta be some uni profs who are on the right side of history and just staying silent to not lose their jobs but NOPE they lit all are zionist liberals who think they can teach you on sociology and racism. my most recent racist experience among many during my academic years was an entire german literature seminar looking at me in confusion as if i had said sth crazy when i claimed that döner kebap is not a german but a turkish dish. they dont want us but want to claim our food, how ironic lol. anyways, i stay away from most of them the moment i sense they're not a leftist (99% of them) bc i cant take the racist trauma anymore
Same! I am also German of Turkish-Armenian descent (male). I'm literally assimilated and yet, I'm always the Türk or Muslim. They will never accept us and always reduce us to our (percieved) looks. The worst thig is how little it took for germany to drift hard right so quickly. Most don't even know their own history and always know everything better, especially german academics. I am also thinking of leaving Germany, it is getting increasingly unbearable as a leftist. The worst are the turks who think they are the good ones and are also getting increasingly racist towards refugees, it's maddening. Imagine needing all these "Fachkräfte" and yet going out of your way to alienate the very same migrants/refugees you need. Insane ....
Yeah you wonder why Germanshate you whilst youre in their homeland telling them jow they should behave,fuck off back to where tou come from AUSLANDER RAUS DEUTCHLAND FUR DEUTCHER AUSLANDER RAUS, BOO HOO, Our ancsstors built Europe youre just an invader now go to hell.@user-xw6bg4vp6v
As someone who went to school with the kids of Turkish immigrants, I just want you to know I was really happy they're here and got along with them much better than with the "German" Germans. I think you make this country better and I'm so angry all these assholes make you feel unsafe and unwelcome.
Oh and I feel that complete isolation and alienation this past year whenever I want to speak about the genocide in Gaza and express my distress and sadness and anger and how badly I want people here to wake up to their own hypocrisy and do something. I would love to speak to you about it all, fuck the weather. Sending strength to you my sister. 💛🍉 Whether you stay here or move to Turkey, I just hope the world changes and you'll be safe :/
Also claiming Döner as German is unreal do these people not have a single Braincell 💀 Wir verdienen unsere Migranten nicht und alles was sie für uns getan haben..
capitalists getting rich off of genocides and mass killings meanwhile honest workers and young people hoping for meritocracy to lift their poor immigrant family from poverty to decent quality life in germany still living paycheck to paycheck and commiting suicide bc they're depressed due to economic issues ... students all poor, inflation through the roof. i know this wasnt the main take away from your amazing video but just had to comment this
This video is brilliantly done. Unfortunately the more and more I learn about how the the massive failure that was German denazification the less I want to move there. For context I'm a black American that really doesn't like the direction the states is heading. Do you think the recent hate crimes in Germany are stemming from a xenophobic or a racist place?
@@ItsCattsifyTheOnly without a doubt. I've personally experienced and seen this in the street from people on the street. If you are a pro Palestine protesters or walking with a keffiyeh, people will yell at you or spit at you. It's not everyone and it's not constant but it does happen. Just a few weeks ago I was rejected from a job for "looking Arab". There is a community for you here but unfortunately there is a lot of racist shit too
the racism in the US is more open and direct while the racism in germany is more passive-aggressive. expect racist micro-aggressions basically everyday, close to zero political knowledge even from ethnic minorities or workers and a very cold and robotic work culture. yeah, idk why anyone would wanna come and live in germany out voluntarily
Someone from india nerding out on ww2 i stumbled on this video..Obviously very insightful..but im surprised to see none labeling you to be pro-communist or something similar in comment section.This video might even get you tagged as communist over here in India.I once again realise that history is too complex to percieve one side as right and the other to be evil.
Thank you for your effort in making this video! It would be great to have the video in german, so it would be accessible also for people who don't speak English.
@@lux8987 I think i will do a subtitle translation of most of my history videos in German and Spanish sometime in the future. Thank you for the support!
@antonioalexander1 great! If you need help in checking the translation, if you don't speak German yourself, I would offer you support as much as possible.
Considering the fact that Marx wrote in his book 'Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary', that gun control was enforced (against left wingers) right after the death of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, that Hitler used their gun registery to disarm jews after the Reichstagsbrand, that the $200 Tax Stamp on various arms basically only affected the poor, that over 100 countries manufacture and sell guns to the US, that Sig Sauer tries to have the best connections to the US to get contracts for law enforcement service pistols (which they did), that the NRA theirselves were for the bump-stock ban which the supreme court deemed unconstitutional, that mass shootings became a widespread problem in the past 2 decades but not the past centuries since the existence of the 2nd amendment (schools used to have indoor shooting clubs even), that all the money of pro-gun groups and lobbies have are NOTHING compared to billionaire Michael Bloombergs anti gun lobby, I would say that you are wrong. The biggest trick in history was the rich making lefties believe that gun control is good and even make them fight to give up their own rights.
Honestly, the only American organization to A) be left leaning and B) have guns and oppose gun laws were the Black Panthers and small groups of organized, unionized workers before WW2. I would say never again have those two conditions crossed over, "leftists" have forsaken real, let alone armed, struggle and rightoids have all but intreched themselves in gun ownership.
And about the Holocaust: we were told we had to make up for the Holocaust. Adenauer even paid reparations to make up for it. But now, apparently, it's been decided that we can't make up for the Holocaust. So in addition to being scammed again and again, we now have to listen to melodramatic tales of nth generation Holocaust survivors berating us about our eternal guilt (or resposibility or whatever). It's all so tiresome.
Why? NATO is a terrorist organization which claims to be a defensive organization, even though it was created by Nazis and NATO invaded multiple countries like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iraq, Vietnam, Libya, Palestine, and Lebanon, having killed dozens of millions of people. Modern NATO is still evil and corrupt.
@@pandemonic66 which people are you referring to specifically in relation to this? And I didn't make that first claim in this video, what do you mean? If you're interested though, I am releasing another in depth history video in about a week or so that talks alot more about eugenics and the ideologies that led to the Holocaust if you're interested
@@antonioalexander1 I didn't say you made the claim in this video. However it seems like alot of people made the mistake that Hitler had the ideas of wiping out the Jews was right wing idea, when Eugenics was left wing idea to begin with. Perhaps HItler idea to respect tradition or restoring the past, or going against the soviet version of communism was in the "right wing" direction but not "eugenics". Nazis took their ideas from eugenics and respected those leaders that promoted Eugenics. There is a ton of famous people that supported eugenics (it even has connections through most parties at that time). Margaret Sanger was one famous left wing person who supported the Negro project and went to a KKK gathering. She pushed birth control to wipe out minorities. The left wing also invented intelligent tests to identify dumb people to wipe out too (however, this might be disguised for wiping minorities out).
@@antonioalexander1 I think it technically started in greek times but the more developed and modern version of it started with Charles Darwin's cousin (inventor of "evolution" type of science) Francis Galton. I think it spread to Britain first. Than to Sweden, and USA. It finally went international (it pretty much all or most developed countries in the world after that). Alot of left wing people abandoned the idea after WW2 or still continued it under new names.
I’m an American, I watched the whole thing and it was a decent documentary but I feel like you largely rest your thesis of why Germany is still fascist on the treatment of Palestinians today. I agree with most of your historical analysis. I’m not a communist but I’m familiar with people like you in the States. One only needs to hear you refer to the SPD as right-wing and Die Linke (the remnants of the SED) as center-left to know your brain is fried on ultra far-left communist propaganda. I don’t know enough about the current climate in German to push back on your anti-Palestine claims. I do find it odd peaceful Arabs and Muslims simply flying Palestinian flags at the AfD protest were harassed and told to leave. The reasonable part of my brain tells me you’re leaving something out. If not, I agree it’s a travesty. What I think likely happened is known activist Palestinian protesters tried to hijack a domestic anti-AfD protest to make it about their cause-Palestine. It might be surprising to you that a lot of people in the West and especially America roundly reject your claim of genocide you so confidently declare as if it’s a widely accepted fact. I’d suspect the reason Germans like Americans are skeptical of Arab/Muslims is because as a demographic they are several times more likely to commit acts of violence compared to European/Christians. Food for thought.
I should clarify, it is not my position that Germany is fascist state. One of the last things I say in this essay is that "the country is sliding back into its own history". This video does not claim Germany in 2024 is a fascist state, but rather that Germany as a country/society never made meaningful attempts to de nazify, and that the very intentional reintegration of Nazis into the state and social sectors is causing many of the problems and attitudes seen in Germany today. And also no, I very explicitly chose to highlight the experiences of three jewish people in Berlin who where harrassed and condemned by the German state, this video is not about Germans and Palestinians, this video is about how Germany treats its own civilians who say things they don't like. "People like me in the states" What does that mean? I live in Berlin but for most of my life I grew up in Chicago. I didn't refer to the SPD as right wing, I refered to the current ampelregierung of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP, as centre right to right wing parties. I do not care that the SPD is okay with gay rights or aren't openly racist, that isn't what makes someone a left winger. The SPD has directly been involved with increasing deportations and cutting social spending in Germany. And the most obvious point being that the SPD directly collaborated with and strengthened freikorps to kill other leftists in Germany before Hitler came to power. As for Die Linke, if they are not centre-left then what are they, far left? They advocate for basic social reforms, and while some of the people in the party may be more far left than the positions the party advocates for that doesn't make the party anything more a standard social democratic party (since they also changed their name to social democracts after unification). Maybe it interest you to know that there are political theorists here in Germany that actually consider Die Linke, the SPD, and the Greens, to all be the same type of parties. You can read Dr. Sara Ceyhan's essay "How German Parties Select Candidates of Immigrant Origin" to hear some thoughts not necessarily about the political positions of the parties but how Die Linke and the SPD are more closely structured than people might think. What and where is this ultra far-left propaganda you speak off? Because I would like to engage with it if you think anything I said in this video is even remotely far left I find it very interesting that me, a person who is actually there during the events is talking about my and other peoples experiences and your reaction to it is, wow that's crazy if its true but the "reasonable" part of my brain tells me you're not telling the truth. But I guess we'll never know, it's just the reasonable part of your brain against my experiences, the experiences of other activists, videos, a pattern of actions taken by the German state and people which I talked, as well as the organisers of the event (Fridays for Future) working with the police to do it. You very confidently state that Arab/Muslims commit more acts of violence than European/Christians. Do you have a source for that? Do you think maybe poverty and being in a country that is routinely being bombed has any affect of what causes violence? What is the point of this statement? This is the same as saying Black people in america are more violent than white people in America... you think maybe it has something to do with the conditions in which they live and not some innate characteristics that come with being black/arab? It is not Syrians, Afghanis, and Iranians flying planes to drop bombs onto Europe and the USA and killing people indiscriminately. And lets not forget, George Bush, a christian, said God told him to invade Iraq. Do they not factor into your count? As for your claim about Palestinians. I don't think its such a plus for your side to claim that Americans and Europeans dont think its a genocide, since Americans and Europeans are quite well known in the third world for supporting every war their country engages in until its over. (Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq) If you want to know my complete opinion on the Gazan genocide you can watch this video th-cam.com/video/4N3QhsiiCrU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4sqSDtV9exrYVpl7, or this video th-cam.com/video/AF-FoC0lWvM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g7SVNttLmXnwcZh9, or this video th-cam.com/video/FRDyitlHVRA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K7M8fGTHzA4Sot3F, or you know what? You can just listen to the words of Israeli politicians themselves law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-database-with-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-continuously-updated/
@@balajiraju4157 where did I say its a justification? I said poverty is related to crime as in the social conditions make people more likely to commit crime
Over 7 billion people on the planet acknowledge Palestine, except USA, Germany, and a few other western countries. Germany is pro israel and anti palestine, and they're pro genocide because they send weapons to Israel to support them in their genocide. Also, the police treat the people who protest against the genocide horrible by beating them. In fact, you're not allowed to get a german passport if you don't support Israel. So Germany is a fascist country.
Ofc denazifcation never happend in west Germany. Fascism is captilisms last resort and response to worker organisation. You can easily see East Germany had remarkable but not perfect de nazifction purely based upon election results in the past 20+ years if the ddr's collaspe. As you can see in any post 1989 election map the east Germans have largely always voted the SPD as a "left wing" party. Heck former East german cuztens still vote mostly and purely SPD. so de mazifcstion cleary worked to whatever extent you want to argue you can't atleast say "well the ddr failed beacuse fascism came back" yet fnoreing the fact the kargwst right wing base is the modern German youth in Eastern Germany hence beacome through German Education Systems not Communsit ones.
_"Fascism is captilisms last resort and response to worker organisation."_ Wrong. There is no connection between Fascism and Capitalism. On the contrary, as a socialist ideology Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist. Not to mention that Germany never had Fascism in the first place as it was an Italian ideology and movement. Germany had National Socialism.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. What you wrote are just assertions. Fascism is what Capitalists resort to in order to safeguard their ruling class domination of the economy. Capitalism, in case anyone is of this opinion, is not one of a single farmer / peasant going about and minding their own private business and bringing their commodities to the market. Markets in and of themselves re not an exclusively Capitalist phenomenon. Slave markets were markets.
@@karlthemarxist6806 _"Fascism is what Capitalists resort to in order to safeguard their ruling class domination of the economy. "_ Wrong. Again, Fascism had nothing to do with Capitalism whatsoever and Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist ideology. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from a French Marxist, known as Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and marxist interpretation of socialism ("class warfare"). Instead, it advocated for class collaboration where the means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions / Fascist Corporatism), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism (Neo-Hegelianism). Being an outgrowth of Sorelian Syndicalism, (which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism), its idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the State, or "embody" the State (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the State, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." As finalized by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile ("the Doctrine of Fascism"), Fascism came from the belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its "dictatorship of the proletariat" cannot be achieved, and that only the State can properly organize a socialist society. Therefore, Fascism cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State. [01] "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile [02] "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile [03] "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri [04] "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice [05] "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor [06] "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio [07] "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio [08] "The Birth of Fascist Ideology" by Zeev Sternhell [09] Any work from Emilio Gentile
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Thank you for sourcing everything really appreciate it
Just finished your video and i am i feel so overwelmed. Left a comment earlier befor seeing the end. Hermanplatz, Rathaus Neukölln my old neigborhood. I knew how bad it is cause i still read german news/forums. But seeing the cops arest the woman with the cardboard on Hermanplatz or the candels beeing stept on.
What a insanity. (Germaness)
Thank you for your work.
Stay safe…
Take care!
Big thanks for linking your sources!
It took me a while to be able to fully watch the video but I think you may have made one of the most comprehensive essays on the subject of not only the history which has led to the current situation in Germany but in general Europe, but also how the spectre of fascism was never truly stamped out.
A similar history to the one of Germany is what currently also happened and goes on in Greece with the ever existent present of fascist and collaborators in government institutions and the political stage. The "crusade against communism" is what led to multiple decades of fascist and authoritarian regimes to rule over and to erase the history of those who committed the crimes and exterminations of so many to the point of the return of those ideas as "valid alternatives". And with the current government and most of the opposition being pro Israel, it shows that no matter how liberal one shows themselves, the interests of the military industrial complex and of the status quo rules over all show of care and empathy.
Our days and age is but the era where history is repeated under a veil of liberalism and democracy that hides the rotting corpse of capitalism and imperialism as it continues to allow and push for the desecration of the working class. As you said in the end, anger is a true feeling one must fuel themselves if they wish to see change and true humanity come to the foreground. For it is the fuel to rise and protest against allowing such genocide to continue and for society to think of other humans as lower than them.
Hopefully with effort things will begin to change and for the people to rise, only through our work can this be accomplished.
Thank you for your comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I am not super familiar with the situation in Greece right now but I would like to educate myself about it, do you have any book/video/website recommendations to understand it better?
@@antonioalexander1While a lot of information on the deeper aspects of Greek history are lacklusterly translated, theres plenty of information on the modern rise of fascism in Greece. For starters, a great documentary is Golden Dawn: A Personal Affair, which looks into the history of the party and its rise:
th-cam.com/video/4P8gyTPy-kM/w-d-xo.html
Along with this paper showing the further expansion of different ideologies of fascism in Greece post their downfall and declaration as a criminal syndicate:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20419058211000999
www.humanrights360.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Golden-Dawn_Eleni-Takou.pdf
The problem with sadly greek sources is that they are rarely translated or academic papers are behind paywalls in regards to the history of Interwar Greece and its transition from Metaxism (A Syncretic version of Italian fascism), to the authoritarian military regimes and unstable governments propped up by the UK and US and the military junta of the 60s-70s. A pretty clear sign of its anti-communist and authoritarian history when it comes to the Greek state is the recognition of the National Resistance (a major force of communist guerrilas and partisans called EAM and ELAS who liberated Greece without foreign forces) only in the 1970s after the fall of the Junta.
As you said in the end of your video, a great movie to see such a vast history of Greece and to see the divisions and historical aspects of authoritarianism and anti-communism is the Travelling Players. It is a great starter to get a more personal idea from the view of the people of the different eras and politics:
archive.org/details/the.-travelling.-players.-1975.-drama-history.-720p.x-264-classics
I would be more than willing to assist you further with reading as I find more translated to English if you wish as Greece was but a microcosm of the wider geopolitical theater of the Cold War and the influence and wishes of the West despite what it may cause. I hope these are good start.
Yup. Same as in Croatia and Serbia where they are rehabilitatating Nazi collaborators (Ustase, in Croatia, Chetniks in Serbia). Then again, we see the same thing happening in Ukraine. Zelensky has banned opposition and essentially killed the unions and they are rehabbing Bandera and other Ukranian Nazis. Then you have the likes of Meloni in Italy, Orban in Hungary...and you realize it's the same old sh*t again.
The Zone of Interest was a good film to watch. I watched this film at the cinema and this film was so eerie, and I recommend reading a Manga Monster set talk about post-War Germany and Neo-Nazism.
Danke, for such an informative video.
Great work, thank you
No matter what facts state, there will always be one person or a group of people who are in denial of a country's dark past or the past sins of the country
Its not really that Germans are in denial of the past. Actually the whole oposite. Especially the Shoa and the suffering of the jews in particular. One could argue that this took such extreme forms that, like the examples in the end of the video show, that jews can be persecuted again if they “are the wrong jews”. I had to so often think about Herman Göhrings famous qoute: “wer Jude ist bestimme ich”. (I decide who is a jew). Espacially in context of liberal/lefty over indendification with Israel. Now Palestinians and pro pal. Jews disturbe this fragile ballance of german “Selbstbild”.
“Die Kraft die Gutes will und Böses schafft.”
Ghoete / Faust
Why is it so hard to just accept the dark past and move on to be better
"Germans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust" is such a chilling yet depressingly true statement. It's a similar experience in America. The white™ American's most feared word is "racist." Every country with a fascist past from the US to Germany to Japan, no one seems to wanna truly deal with these problems. It's not about guilt. It's about understanding and doing better. Better by doing everything you can to help your fellow hunan being and fight against genuine evil.
Extraordinary video. Deserves millions of views
Amazing video. Great job. It's amazing how the poison of the past is still lingering, i had no idea how deep it ran. It's infuriating to see hate destroying the new generations while the perpetrators just continue to gain more power
You're very knowledgeable about German history, in particular the post-war non-denazification. I've learned a couple of new things.
If you wanna see an eye-opening film on post-war de-nazification, watch Hellstorm.
This is really good historical analysis. It should be taught in all schools, not just in Germany
i’m about to binge watch this whole channel, super impressed, this kind of heavily sourced, straight-to-the-point video style is my favorite
Will come back here to watch the rest soon. Thank you for the amazing work you do.
you make excellent content and i know that big things are in store for you, my friend
This is a.....peculiar april fool's joke
Really great work! Thank you!
Wow. Great video. You should make another one and talk about the Red Army Faction. The RAF seems like literally the only people in West Germany that punished any ex Nazis in any way what so ever and how the state literally moved heaven and earth to find and punish them. There was a movie about it called The Baader Meinhoff Complex
Amazing work, keep it up
Pretty much the same thing happened in Japan, too. Really, I kind of feel bad for the Italians, they really got the short end of the stick on WW2 being the only loser.
hey, i mean at least japan had an atomic bomb dropped on them and is not using their past to victimize another group of ppl somewhere else. i would take that over whatever tf germany is doing
@@lunali7209 the atomic bombs have, in fact, saved the japanese ruling class from true justice. the dropping of the bombs finally served as justification for inconditional surrender to the americans - which was clearly preferable to having to fight with (and capitulate to) the oncoming red army - that had already liberated manchuria, korea and sakhalin island. the atomic bombs ended up leaving the japanese monarchy and its ruling classes intact by doing this - and, as such, this would go on to form a japan after the war that, ruled mostly by the same rulers, denied its crimes. japan to this day has not aknowledged most of its crimes and anti-chinese and anti-korean sentiments are still prevalent. for example, shinzo abe, prime minister of japan for many years in this century and recently assassinated, was the grandson of nobusuke kishi, who was also prime minister of japan, but, mainly was a colonial bureaucrat and known violent leader in japanese-occupied manchuria and minister of hideki tojo - the japanese prime minister during the war and one of the few japanese to have been judged after it.
"Surely, with unlimited ressources and advances in bow-hunting, the native indians would have conquered the moon by 1970, if it weren't for those european protestants."
Those damn natives and their right to existing. At least us wholesome Europeans "peacefully" inherited this land by God.
I hate this country.
Good video bro, I shared it on my socials!!
Great video ❤
Holy shit i just checked the amount of views…this video deserves 100x this
The most important factor at the end of WW1 was the communications instigated by the German government, namely Prince von Baden with President Wilson through the Swiss embassy. This all began on October 5th and they exchanged 5 or 6 notes. Von Baden said that Germany wanted to put an end to the bloodshed, it was never question of surrender, and was willing to comply with Wilson's 14 points published after a speech in January 1918 in which he proposed the concept of 'Peace without Victory', his only requirements being the abdication of the Kaiser and the creation of a republic to replace the monarchy, which the Germans agreed to and implemented in no time at all. Then, Wilson sort of told them that the military had to leave their weapons where they were and could go home in peace, nothing else would be required of Germany, it was all over. When he contacted the governments of France and Britain about the agreement, at first they refused so he threatened them with economic sanctions so they had no choice, telling him that they agreed but they never did, they had lied. During the Versailles debates (there was no negotiations) it became clear that the war had been about the destruction of Germany's fast growing economic and industrial power, felt like an existential threat by the old European empires, incapable of fighting a fair capitalist competition, whose only solution was war... the Kaiser never saw it coming, him who had never fought a war in his life, and would do anything to avoid one. Therefore, when the German delegation finally went to Versailles, convinced they would be negotiating the minor terms of a peace already agreed to, they couldn't believe the monstrous terms of the treaty, and when they tried to negotiate, they were told: either you sign now, or we invade, no negotiations. So then began the Weimar period, a terrible period of hardships, poverty, hunger and death where vicious foreign financiers abused of the situation and bought all thewy could, including family treasures, for pennies on the dollar. That created resentment in the population, a distrust of democracy and total social mayhem so when the national socialists came along, it sounded like the only hope to solve that terrible situation Germany was now in. The greed and vindictiveness of the winners of WW1 were in reality responsible for the Nazis access to power, without it, Hitler would have remained a WW1 corporal, selling paintings to Jewish dealers and slowly making a name for himself, as he had already began doing before being recruited in the army.
As to today's right wing wave, Germany is still under foreign occupation so the government is still not working for the German people, isn't it obvious? Let's take a general vote and see if a majority would back the genocide in Palestine, I don't think so. NATO is the military arm of the US in Europe, Germany must get out of that trap and the Yanks have to go and take their nukes with them, if they don't, the kettle will keep boiling, until it blows up and devastates the country, and most of Europe.
While I can only speak for myself and my siblings, I can say that all of us have been taught about the german genocide in Namibia in school.
“Fascism is just capitalism in crisis.” - Unknown but usually attributed to Lenin or R. Palme Dutt
Whether it be Germany, Italy, Greece, Chile, etc. when communism begins to threaten the industrialists… these people will back Fascism.
Except there is no connection between Fascism and Capitalism. On the contrary, as a socialist ideology Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist. Not to mention that Germany never had Fascism in the first place as it was an Italian ideology and movement. Germany had National Socialism. Funnily enough, Fascists themselves explicitly said that Fascism was an answer to socialism in crisis.
@ Wow, you are all mixed up in the head. I think Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti would be a good place to get yourself acquainted with the ideology and terms.
@@Baphomets_Kid : What does a smooth brain Marxist like Parenti have to do with Fascism? That is like asking about Communism from Trump. Besides, I already know about Fascism. It was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from a French Marxist, known as Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and marxist interpretation of socialism ("class warfare"). Instead, it advocated for class collaboration where the means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions / Fascist Corporatism), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism (Neo-Hegelianism).
Being an outgrowth of Sorelian Syndicalism, (which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism), its idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the State, or "embody" the State (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the State, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
As finalized by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile ("the Doctrine of Fascism"), Fascism came from the belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its "dictatorship of the proletariat" cannot be achieved, and that only the State can properly organize a socialist society. Therefore, Fascism cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State.
[01] "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
[02] "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile
[03] "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri
[04] "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice
[05] "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor
[06] "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio
[07] "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio
[08] "The Birth of Fascist Ideology" by Zeev Sternhell
[09] Any work from Emilio Gentile
@@Baphomets_Kid As you may be aware, "Fascism and Social Revolution" by R.P. Dutt is also a comprehensive analysis of Fascism.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. "Fascism and Social Revolution" by R.P. Dutt is also a comprehensive analysis of Fascism.
I am really thankful to you for your work. I have been looking for such a comprehensive presentation of this huge issue for a long time, but I had not found any. Very few channels post citations as you did, this is very useful for credibility and further research. I think that Germans of the older generations were aware of the Nazis in their government. I am sure that many young Germans know nothing or very little about this, though. If one considers the increasing rate of young people supporting right-wing extremism, this is absolutely worrisome.
This is actually just disgusting.
My favourite TH-camr.
german born and raised, while I was always quick to call out the american hypocrisy it really took recent years to see my own biases much clearer and also acknowledge the underlying white supremacism shaping a lot of our current politics, including blindly supporting the genocide of the gazan people while blaming Hamas for everything.
jews are not white. jewish supremacy is not 'white supremacy' in fact its verry anti-white. germans owe that criminal people NOTHING. they owe third world invaders NOTHING either. germany belongs to germans. their the indigenous people of the land. these other groups should leave germany and leave the german people alone.
This Doku should be part of every school curricular in Germany.
Not sure why my algorithm has taken me down this rabbit hole. It's fascinating and depressing at the same time. Hoping that commenting helps it spread
That kind of makes the “Your Job in Germany” propaganda more true.
Great, I mean really great work !!
It's quite clear to me that when Netanyahu says that it was a muslim's idea, it's not about his beliefs, it's about how he spins his agenda. This message seems to be specifically tailored to the general public of the west who doesn't know this part of history, and proceeds to fill in the gap himself with something blatantly false. He probably says something different to the Isreali media, where the people are far more likely to know that it's bullshit, so he focuses on something else. Of course, I have no confirmation about this, and I've been trying to find information or direct translations but haven't seen much yet.
I suspect it because it's the same thing Putin has been doing as of late, as his focus on justification for his war in Ukraine is different depending on who he's talking to. To Western audiences, usually it's more focused on Ukraine haboring fascists or NATO aggression, while to his own crowd in Russia, it's more focused on how Ukraine doesn’t have any separate cultural identity. Both are untrue or, at the very least, wildly overstated narratives, yet each is more believable to a different crowd.
Finally finished watching this. It is as worrying as it is elucidating. Too bad it only has some thousands views.
the idea just keeps coming back...
Wow the similarities between the recent conflict in Palestine and Abyssnia
Really good video thank you very much. (little algorithm comment)
My great great grandfather fought the Germans. My great grandfather fought the Germans. Bye god, someday I'll have to fight the Germans. How many times do we have to teach them this lesson man
leave the german people alone, you angloids should be expelled from europe
You're a peach for making this video
I understand your point about not mentioning Soviet and East German collaboration with and rehabilitation of Nazis because of the fact that the East German government was dissolved, but the GDR it still had lasting impacts on far-right sentiment in Germany. You talked a lot about the higher ups in the AfD and who funds them, but where they get their voters from is also extremely important. The AfD's base is in the former East German states, and they do significantly better there as compared to West Germany. The contrast is pretty stark. (This is even as East Germany receives a significantly lower percentage of refugees than compared to West Germany.) So while the West did a worse job denazifying people in positions of power, the East did a worse job denazifying the ideology much of the wider population. I believe this to be because of the lasting impact of authoritarianism from East Germany.
As you mentioned with examples of former Nazis being allowed to return to several high ranking positions in the Government and within corporations, I vaguely knew about this but some examples you gave still shocked me. Anyways while this is important to consider, it's only half of the picture, and it's also important to consider far-right sentiment in wider society among the people. While the East was more thorough in denazification in the sense of executing and imprisoning them, which is good, but this kind of approach also extended to liberals, social democrats, and even socialists and communists who opposed the Soviets or SED regime. They did not reverse the way of doing things from the Nazi's in regards to authoritarianism, and anti-democracy, which is is a pretty important tenet of Fascism. (Obviously I'm not totally equivocating the SED with the Nazi's who were MUCH worse.) So while those in the West were able to participate in democracy (flawed as it was in West Germany with the banning of the KPD), travel freely, and live in more economic prosperity, the those in the East lived under a dictatorship and a oppressive police state that didn't allow them to leave. Those in the west became more-anti authoritarian by being able to live in and experience a freer society. While most East Germans did not want to live under the SED regime, some began to accept the strongman authoritarian way of doing things, and a small percentage embraced it.
By the time the wall fell and the first free elections were held, nobody except the oldest generation of East Germans had participated in a free election, the first time since 1932. While one could blame it partly on just "economic anxiety" in the East, It's my feeling that the AfD is so popular in former East Germany because East Germans had only known authoritarian strongmen ""who at least got stuff done"" for so much of their lives, and so for a certain percent of them, when problems occurred it was easy to blame it on this new liberal democracy way of doing politics as opposed to how it used to be. So they began seeking out that authoritarian strongman again and the AfD presented themselves, propped up and funded by the individuals and organizations you mentioned in the video.
I don't think its a matter of "lingering authoritarian tendencies" or the lack of elections that turned people to the right as you claim. The support for far-right populism is, in my opinion, more easily explained through economic precariousness. When West Germany effectively took over East Germany, all organs of the old system were dismantled. State owned institutions that provided what little income people had were privatized and people were left without an income.
This is very similar to what happened after the fall of the USSR, where almost every post-soviet state had to go through "shock therapy" to adapt to the new market oriented model of the economy. And in almost every one of those countries, people started to blame all their problems on the old regime and not the shock therapy they were being forced to go through in the name of free trade; almost invariably all of these states turned to the populist right as people's material conditions worsened.
While the former GDR didn't experience as big of an economic shock, the process still left millions poor and desperate. And with the loss of trust in the old communist party (for good reason) combined with West German liberal parties not caring, people turned to the populist right for easy answers.
Yes I agree with @fahadahaf 's points about the economic implications post reunification leading more to what we see in the East nowadays with the East leading in votes for far-right groups like AFD. Also, it has been a generation or two since the reunification, most young people or even in their 30s/40s don't have the experience at all of the GDR or have very faint memories from very young childhood. I don't know if the experience of Authoritarianism in the GDR suffices as an argument now for rising Nazi ideology in the East, unless it's mostly the older generations leading the votes for this party, which I do not know, but I imagine unfortunately it is a lot of people in their 40s and younger as well.
You people have no clue what Far-Right even means.
great video that has made me angry again over the racism in germany. i think out of all western countries, the racism in germany is the worst and most insidious. as a turkish person born and raised here, i dont feel at home and im considering moving to turkey someday especially because of everything i have witnessed within the last year. and thats crazy bc turkey is a corrupt country with high numbers of femicides (i am a woman) and low life quality. thats how bad it has gotten in germany. im currently studying to get my masters degree and i cannot describe to you how alienating it is to talk to ANY german these days about anything other than the weather. you would think that surely theres gotta be some uni profs who are on the right side of history and just staying silent to not lose their jobs but NOPE they lit all are zionist liberals who think they can teach you on sociology and racism. my most recent racist experience among many during my academic years was an entire german literature seminar looking at me in confusion as if i had said sth crazy when i claimed that döner kebap is not a german but a turkish dish. they dont want us but want to claim our food, how ironic lol.
anyways, i stay away from most of them the moment i sense they're not a leftist (99% of them) bc i cant take the racist trauma anymore
Same! I am also German of Turkish-Armenian descent (male). I'm literally assimilated and yet, I'm always the Türk or Muslim. They will never accept us and always reduce us to our (percieved) looks. The worst thig is how little it took for germany to drift hard right so quickly. Most don't even know their own history and always know everything better, especially german academics. I am also thinking of leaving Germany, it is getting increasingly unbearable as a leftist. The worst are the turks who think they are the good ones and are also getting increasingly racist towards refugees, it's maddening. Imagine needing all these "Fachkräfte" and yet going out of your way to alienate the very same migrants/refugees you need. Insane ....
Yeah you wonder why Germanshate you whilst youre in their homeland telling them jow they should behave,fuck off back to where tou come from AUSLANDER RAUS DEUTCHLAND FUR DEUTCHER AUSLANDER RAUS, BOO HOO, Our ancsstors built Europe youre just an invader now go to hell.@user-xw6bg4vp6v
As someone who went to school with the kids of Turkish immigrants, I just want you to know I was really happy they're here and got along with them much better than with the "German" Germans. I think you make this country better and I'm so angry all these assholes make you feel unsafe and unwelcome.
Oh and I feel that complete isolation and alienation this past year whenever I want to speak about the genocide in Gaza and express my distress and sadness and anger and how badly I want people here to wake up to their own hypocrisy and do something. I would love to speak to you about it all, fuck the weather. Sending strength to you my sister. 💛🍉 Whether you stay here or move to Turkey, I just hope the world changes and you'll be safe :/
Also claiming Döner as German is unreal do these people not have a single Braincell 💀 Wir verdienen unsere Migranten nicht und alles was sie für uns getan haben..
Quite a high quality intermediate communist analysis of the "attempt" at denazification. Well done.
Damn i knew it was big but not this big
capitalists getting rich off of genocides and mass killings meanwhile honest workers and young people hoping for meritocracy to lift their poor immigrant family from poverty to decent quality life in germany still living paycheck to paycheck and commiting suicide bc they're depressed due to economic issues ... students all poor, inflation through the roof. i know this wasnt the main take away from your amazing video but just had to comment this
This video is brilliantly done. Unfortunately the more and more I learn about how the the massive failure that was German denazification the less I want to move there. For context I'm a black American that really doesn't like the direction the states is heading. Do you think the recent hate crimes in Germany are stemming from a xenophobic or a racist place?
@@ItsCattsifyTheOnly without a doubt. I've personally experienced and seen this in the street from people on the street. If you are a pro Palestine protesters or walking with a keffiyeh, people will yell at you or spit at you. It's not everyone and it's not constant but it does happen. Just a few weeks ago I was rejected from a job for "looking Arab". There is a community for you here but unfortunately there is a lot of racist shit too
the racism in the US is more open and direct while the racism in germany is more passive-aggressive. expect racist micro-aggressions basically everyday, close to zero political knowledge even from ethnic minorities or workers and a very cold and robotic work culture. yeah, idk why anyone would wanna come and live in germany out voluntarily
yo i think it's fine, one of the cops in armor is a child too
Someone from india nerding out on ww2 i stumbled on this video..Obviously very insightful..but im surprised to see none labeling you to be pro-communist or something similar in comment section.This video might even get you tagged as communist over here in India.I once again realise that history is too complex to percieve one side as right and the other to be evil.
Thank you for your effort in making this video! It would be great to have the video in german, so it would be accessible also for people who don't speak English.
@@lux8987 I think i will do a subtitle translation of most of my history videos in German and Spanish sometime in the future. Thank you for the support!
@antonioalexander1 great! If you need help in checking the translation, if you don't speak German yourself, I would offer you support as much as possible.
Considering the fact that Marx wrote in his book 'Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary',
that gun control was enforced (against left wingers) right after the death of Liebknecht and Luxemburg,
that Hitler used their gun registery to disarm jews after the Reichstagsbrand,
that the $200 Tax Stamp on various arms basically only affected the poor,
that over 100 countries manufacture and sell guns to the US,
that Sig Sauer tries to have the best connections to the US to get contracts for law enforcement service pistols (which they did),
that the NRA theirselves were for the bump-stock ban which the supreme court deemed unconstitutional,
that mass shootings became a widespread problem in the past 2 decades but not the past centuries since the existence of the 2nd amendment (schools used to have indoor shooting clubs even),
that all the money of pro-gun groups and lobbies have are NOTHING compared to billionaire Michael Bloombergs anti gun lobby,
I would say that you are wrong.
The biggest trick in history was the rich making lefties believe that gun control is good and even make them fight to give up their own rights.
I am not a leftist that believes gun control is good
most gun owners in the US are not leftists so ur entire comment is stupid
Honestly, the only American organization to A) be left leaning and B) have guns and oppose gun laws were the Black Panthers and small groups of organized, unionized workers before WW2. I would say never again have those two conditions crossed over, "leftists" have forsaken real, let alone armed, struggle and rightoids have all but intreched themselves in gun ownership.
Damn, mate. You crushed it. This explains a lot to me, as an immigrant left completely speechless at the response to clear evil here.
go back to where you came from and leave the german people alone! you don't belong there.
And about the Holocaust: we were told we had to make up for the Holocaust. Adenauer even paid reparations to make up for it. But now, apparently, it's been decided that we can't make up for the Holocaust. So in addition to being scammed again and again, we now have to listen to melodramatic tales of nth generation Holocaust survivors berating us about our eternal guilt (or resposibility or whatever). It's all so tiresome.
So Germans’ decision is to become nazis again to stop feeling guilt 😂
despite these problems in NATO, I am a still a supporter of modern NATO
You kinda have to be on a lot of things. Like Ukraine. No good hearted leftist/Socialist supports Russia. Or at least none should
thanks for confirming your human sewer sludge.
Why? NATO is a terrorist organization which claims to be a defensive organization, even though it was created by Nazis and NATO invaded multiple countries like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iraq, Vietnam, Libya, Palestine, and Lebanon, having killed dozens of millions of people. Modern NATO is still evil and corrupt.
Ok but where is the nazi policy then?
this simple question voids the premise of this video
@@les07derEroberer i addressed this question directly in part 4 of the video
Could you explain why left wing eugenics led to the Nazis holocaust? And why so many famous left wing people supported eugenics?
@@pandemonic66 which people are you referring to specifically in relation to this? And I didn't make that first claim in this video, what do you mean? If you're interested though, I am releasing another in depth history video in about a week or so that talks alot more about eugenics and the ideologies that led to the Holocaust if you're interested
@@antonioalexander1 I didn't say you made the claim in this video. However it seems like alot of people made the mistake that Hitler had the ideas of wiping out the Jews was right wing idea, when Eugenics was left wing idea to begin with. Perhaps HItler idea to respect tradition or restoring the past, or going against the soviet version of communism was in the "right wing" direction but not "eugenics". Nazis took their ideas from eugenics and respected those leaders that promoted Eugenics.
There is a ton of famous people that supported eugenics (it even has connections through most parties at that time). Margaret Sanger was one famous left wing person who supported the Negro project and went to a KKK gathering. She pushed birth control to wipe out minorities. The left wing also invented intelligent tests to identify dumb people to wipe out too (however, this might be disguised for wiping minorities out).
@@pandemonic66 do you have any source or explanation for how eugenics was a left wing idea???
@@antonioalexander1 I think it technically started in greek times but the more developed and modern version of it started with Charles Darwin's cousin (inventor of "evolution" type of science) Francis Galton. I think it spread to Britain first. Than to Sweden, and USA. It finally went international (it pretty much all or most developed countries in the world after that). Alot of left wing people abandoned the idea after WW2 or still continued it under new names.
@@antonioalexander1 I think the first group was Fabian Society
Nothing wrong with opposing immigration.
There's a big difference between being against Immigration, and being a pro genocide nazi.
faith in Germany restored
Weirdo.
11:30 that’s not true
@@JannikMüller-n5h do you think the relationship between the Nazi party and the Capitalists of Germany hurt them more than it helped? How so
Are you showing starving Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2 and portraying them as German children starving due to an Allied blockade?
@@rcrinsea no? Where do you think that happened
So Germany is not gay and muslim enough?
What does this have to do with Germany being full of nazis who are pro genocide?
I’m an American, I watched the whole thing and it was a decent documentary but I feel like you largely rest your thesis of why Germany is still fascist on the treatment of Palestinians today.
I agree with most of your historical analysis. I’m not a communist but I’m familiar with people like you in the States. One only needs to hear you refer to the SPD as right-wing and Die Linke (the remnants of the SED) as center-left to know your brain is fried on ultra far-left communist propaganda.
I don’t know enough about the current climate in German to push back on your anti-Palestine claims. I do find it odd peaceful Arabs and Muslims simply flying Palestinian flags at the AfD protest were harassed and told to leave. The reasonable part of my brain tells me you’re leaving something out. If not, I agree it’s a travesty. What I think likely happened is known activist Palestinian protesters tried to hijack a domestic anti-AfD protest to make it about their cause-Palestine.
It might be surprising to you that a lot of people in the West and especially America roundly reject your claim of genocide you so confidently declare as if it’s a widely accepted fact. I’d suspect the reason Germans like Americans are skeptical of Arab/Muslims is because as a demographic they are several times more likely to commit acts of violence compared to European/Christians. Food for thought.
I should clarify, it is not my position that Germany is fascist state. One of the last things I say in this essay is that "the country is sliding back into its own history". This video does not claim Germany in 2024 is a fascist state, but rather that Germany as a country/society never made meaningful attempts to de nazify, and that the very intentional reintegration of Nazis into the state and social sectors is causing many of the problems and attitudes seen in Germany today. And also no, I very explicitly chose to highlight the experiences of three jewish people in Berlin who where harrassed and condemned by the German state, this video is not about Germans and Palestinians, this video is about how Germany treats its own civilians who say things they don't like.
"People like me in the states" What does that mean? I live in Berlin but for most of my life I grew up in Chicago. I didn't refer to the SPD as right wing, I refered to the current ampelregierung of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP, as centre right to right wing parties. I do not care that the SPD is okay with gay rights or aren't openly racist, that isn't what makes someone a left winger. The SPD has directly been involved with increasing deportations and cutting social spending in Germany. And the most obvious point being that the SPD directly collaborated with and strengthened freikorps to kill other leftists in Germany before Hitler came to power. As for Die Linke, if they are not centre-left then what are they, far left? They advocate for basic social reforms, and while some of the people in the party may be more far left than the positions the party advocates for that doesn't make the party anything more a standard social democratic party (since they also changed their name to social democracts after unification). Maybe it interest you to know that there are political theorists here in Germany that actually consider Die Linke, the SPD, and the Greens, to all be the same type of parties. You can read Dr. Sara Ceyhan's essay "How German Parties Select Candidates of Immigrant Origin" to hear some thoughts not necessarily about the political positions of the parties but how Die Linke and the SPD are more closely structured than people might think. What and where is this ultra far-left propaganda you speak off? Because I would like to engage with it if you think anything I said in this video is even remotely far left
I find it very interesting that me, a person who is actually there during the events is talking about my and other peoples experiences and your reaction to it is, wow that's crazy if its true but the "reasonable" part of my brain tells me you're not telling the truth. But I guess we'll never know, it's just the reasonable part of your brain against my experiences, the experiences of other activists, videos, a pattern of actions taken by the German state and people which I talked, as well as the organisers of the event (Fridays for Future) working with the police to do it.
You very confidently state that Arab/Muslims commit more acts of violence than European/Christians. Do you have a source for that? Do you think maybe poverty and being in a country that is routinely being bombed has any affect of what causes violence? What is the point of this statement? This is the same as saying Black people in america are more violent than white people in America... you think maybe it has something to do with the conditions in which they live and not some innate characteristics that come with being black/arab? It is not Syrians, Afghanis, and Iranians flying planes to drop bombs onto Europe and the USA and killing people indiscriminately. And lets not forget, George Bush, a christian, said God told him to invade Iraq. Do they not factor into your count?
As for your claim about Palestinians. I don't think its such a plus for your side to claim that Americans and Europeans dont think its a genocide, since Americans and Europeans are quite well known in the third world for supporting every war their country engages in until its over. (Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq) If you want to know my complete opinion on the Gazan genocide you can watch this video th-cam.com/video/4N3QhsiiCrU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4sqSDtV9exrYVpl7, or this video th-cam.com/video/AF-FoC0lWvM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=g7SVNttLmXnwcZh9, or this video th-cam.com/video/FRDyitlHVRA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=K7M8fGTHzA4Sot3F, or you know what? You can just listen to the words of Israeli politicians themselves law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-database-with-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-continuously-updated/
@@antonioalexander1 poverty is not a justification for crime....in my country, middle class people commit most of the heinous crime compare to poor
@@balajiraju4157 where did I say its a justification? I said poverty is related to crime as in the social conditions make people more likely to commit crime
@@antonioalexander1 dont care about him dude. He's just a rac1st Euro-Amerikan
Over 7 billion people on the planet acknowledge Palestine, except USA, Germany, and a few other western countries. Germany is pro israel and anti palestine, and they're pro genocide because they send weapons to Israel to support them in their genocide. Also, the police treat the people who protest against the genocide horrible by beating them. In fact, you're not allowed to get a german passport if you don't support Israel. So Germany is a fascist country.
Ofc denazifcation never happend in west Germany. Fascism is captilisms last resort and response to worker organisation.
You can easily see East Germany had remarkable but not perfect de nazifction purely based upon election results in the past 20+ years if the ddr's collaspe.
As you can see in any post 1989 election map the east Germans have largely always voted the SPD as a "left wing" party.
Heck former East german cuztens still vote mostly and purely SPD. so de mazifcstion cleary worked to whatever extent you want to argue you can't atleast say "well the ddr failed beacuse fascism came back" yet fnoreing the fact the kargwst right wing base is the modern German youth in Eastern Germany hence beacome through German Education Systems not Communsit ones.
_"Fascism is captilisms last resort and response to worker organisation."_
Wrong. There is no connection between Fascism and Capitalism. On the contrary, as a socialist ideology Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist. Not to mention that Germany never had Fascism in the first place as it was an Italian ideology and movement. Germany had National Socialism.
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.you are wrong and evil
@@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. What you wrote are just assertions. Fascism is what Capitalists resort to in order to safeguard their ruling class domination of the economy. Capitalism, in case anyone is of this opinion, is not one of a single farmer / peasant going about and minding their own private business and bringing their commodities to the market. Markets in and of themselves re not an exclusively Capitalist phenomenon. Slave markets were markets.
@@codymoon7552 : Cope harder and go read some history.
@@karlthemarxist6806 _"Fascism is what Capitalists resort to in order to safeguard their ruling class domination of the economy. "_
Wrong. Again, Fascism had nothing to do with Capitalism whatsoever and Fascism was strictly anti-capitalist ideology. Fascism was a totalitarian far-left, socialist 3rd position ideology based on National Syndicalism which they adapted from a French Marxist, known as Georges Sorel. It rejected individualism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and marxist interpretation of socialism ("class warfare"). Instead, it advocated for class collaboration where the means of production was organized by national worker syndicals (i.e. trade unions / Fascist Corporatism), and the guiding philosophy of the state was Actual Idealism (Neo-Hegelianism).
Being an outgrowth of Sorelian Syndicalism, (which itself was an outgrowth from Marxist socialism), its idea was that society would be consolidated (i.e., incorporated) into syndicates (in the Italian context, fascio/fasci) which would be regulated by and serve as organs for the State, or "embody" the State (corpus = body). The purpose was the centralization and synchronization of society under the State, as an end unto itself. To quote Mussolini's infamous aphorism: "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
As finalized by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile ("the Doctrine of Fascism"), Fascism came from the belief that the "Stateless and Classless society" Communism calls for after its "dictatorship of the proletariat" cannot be achieved, and that only the State can properly organize a socialist society. Therefore, Fascism cared about unity in a strong central government with society being brought together by syndicalist organizations obedient to the State.
[01] "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile
[02] "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile
[03] "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri
[04] "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice
[05] "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor
[06] "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio
[07] "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio
[08] "The Birth of Fascist Ideology" by Zeev Sternhell
[09] Any work from Emilio Gentile