I’m sorry, but I used to think exactly like you many years ago.

Most German remembrance culture is overly superficial. Many German politicians hold straight up nazi views and they’re still mingling around in the Bundestag. Some of them were caught on audio saying nazi shit. Others were involved with nazi organisations as youngsters. Many of them still attend “secret” nazi meetings and they’re still mingling around with other politicians, even when it gets out to the press. Many of them hold up antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. views and they’re still in positions of power. Most german billionaires have built their empires on top of the Holocaust. They’re still around. No one dares to touch them. There’s just some superficial “public outrage” from time to time and then the wheels of history just keep chugging on. Where’s the remembrance culture for the millions of victims, most jewish, many queer, and political victims of the nazi regime?

Where was the remembrance culture for so many decades for the tens of thousands of queer victims of the Holocaust? Germany barely managed to pass a same-sex marriage bill a few years ago. Hell, even the US has done it before Germany did and they didn’t have any concentration camps filled with homosexuals. So where’s the remembrance culture?

Where’s the human dignity when the greens and the social democrats are deporting people to Afghanistan, a country ruled by the taliban? Where’s the human dignity when minorities are often the ones to get the short end of the stick at every interaction with state institutions? Where’s the human dignity when minorities die in police custody and nothing ever comes out of it? Or when cops are involved en masse with nazi organisations? Where’s the human dignity when people go out to protest and they get massively suppressed by police, often with liberal newspapers cheering it on?

It doesn’t need to get to an industrialised killing of a group of people to be able to talk about “nazi like mentality”.

Germany is more than happy to revoke citizenships nowadays for saying things the German state doesn’t like. This is something unseen since nazi times. This is creating first and second class German citizens. Are you a so-called “bio deutsche”? Then you’re free to do nazi shit, scream your hate-speech at immigrants, you’ll mostly just get a fine and that’s the end of the story. Are you a german with a second citizenship? Then go against the so called Staatsräson, criticise Israel publicly, and you’ll have the entire might of the German state weighing down on you, having your citizenship revoked and ending up being deported. For a thought crime.

You either stay in line, or you’re out of here, unworthy of being a citizen of this state just because you hold a different opinion.

And the thing about making parties illegal. That’s hilarious. The AfD is saying shit nowadays that other parties ten/twenty years ago have gotten banned for. And they’re doing it openly. And growing bolder, while the german society just stands there and looks.

Where is the human dignity when Germany makes a shitton of money by selling weapons that end up being used on fucking kids in the Gaza? Where was the human dignity when Germany sold Saddam Hussein all the infrastructure he needed to build chemical weapons? Where was the love for law when the German chancellor ruled out an arrest for Netanyahu even though he has an international warrant?

When you answer all of those questions, then you’ll know exactly how much Germany, as a state, cares about its own constitution. And yet the german people still follow the state’s line. And that’s all you need to know for the future.

China will do just fine. It’s us we should be more concerned about, not China. Just as they managed in every other field, I’m fairly sure they’ll manage this time too.

Much of the mentality that enabled nazi Germany stayed. I’m half romanian, half german. I’m also part jewish. My ancestors died in the Holocaust. The German love for law and order scares me. They’re overly obedient. Rarely walk out of line on serious matters. Mark my words, but someday the AfD will come to power, and they’ll make use of all the tools the liberals implemented for them (suppressing protests, deporting people, cutting funding, and so on) and no one will bat an eye. Because a law is a law and therefore it is to be followed. Hopefully I’ll manage to be far away by that time.