Recent assaults spark national debate over Germany’s increasingly raw political climate, with some seeing echoes of its dark history.
One politician ruthlessly beaten while hanging campaign posters. Another assaulted in a public library. Yet another, pushed and spat on by suspects who were part of a group of people allegedly calling out “Heil Hitler.”
A string of violent attacks on politicians in Germany — including a brutal assault on a member of the European Parliament in Dresden — has shaken many and sparked a national debate over the increasingly raw political climate in the country, with some drawing comparisons to the kind of political violence that accompanied the rise of the Nazis.
Recent attacks on politicians are “reminiscent of the darkest chapter in German history,” said Hendrik Wüst, the conservative premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, in an interview on German public television.
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The recent spate of attacks left politicians vowing action to reign in violence
That makes sense but I hope it’s a spelling error.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Additional attacks this week — including one on the former mayor of Berlin, SPD politician Franziska Giffey, assaulted in a public library by a man who struck her from behind on the head with a “bag filled with hard contents,” according to police — further raised alarm across the country.
The recent spate of attacks left politicians vowing action to reign in violence directed at political party representatives.
On Tuesday evening, Faeser met with ministers from German states to discuss measures — including sharpening legal penalties for attacks on politicians — to curb the violence.
Many Germans saw the 2019 murder of Walter Lübcke, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician who had supported Angela Merkel’s welcoming of refugees, by a neo-Nazi as a somber turning point the country’s postwar history, marking the first time a politician was assassinated by a far-right extremist in Germany since World War II.
German police said at least one of the attackers on EU lawmaker Ecke in Dresden appeared to have been influenced by a right-wing extremist ideology.
That was evident when Jörg Urban, the chairman of the AfD in Saxony, condemned the attack on Ecke — but then appeared to blame the SPD.
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To no one’s surprise, really.
I’ll just leave this here:
Huh? This was an internal purge within the Nazi party. How is that related?
It’s not. Well, the SA (who got purged that night) is relevant because they were the literal brownshirts, the NSDAP’s goons on Weimar Republic streets. Lot of political violence going on back in the days. The Nazis had the SA, the communists the Rotfront, Socdems were part of a wider alliance and the nationalists/monarchists also had one.
Right-wing stochastic terrorism has been simmering on low flame for a long time, if you want a more direct parallel I’d point you to the NSU.
Agitation-wise I think this time around CDU and FDP are the main culprits, especially when it comes to stuff being done to Green politicians. Their rhetoric is pouring petrol on various conspiracy narratives. I’ll just leave this here (there’s English subtitles).
You’re preaching to the choir. I very frequently call them Blauhemden and already explained the stochastic terrorism aspects of it.
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You really can’t see how a historical example of widespread political assassinations pertains to an article featuring a political assassination, simply due to the target not being the same people?
The attacked member is neither part of the AfD nor is she dead. So no, I cannot see it. What this is comparable to is the SA, if anything, or rather a stochastic terrorism variant of it that is guided through social media propaganda. But comparing this to the assassination of the socialist opposition within the Nazi party is just ludicrous.
If you read the actual article, it mentions a political assassination that did succeed. Regardless, political assassination is political assassination, it is never justified in a society where the law applies to all people, regardless of the target. We need to take a stand against extrajudicial political violence period, unless we want to encourage more chaos and criminality in our societies. People that believe in violence are unlikely to stop at just some violence, that would be inconsistent and irrational.
I don’t read Axel Springer trash but I certainly don’t recall the AfD assassinating one of their own party for not following the extremists line.
I was not saying they did, was I? I guess you don’t read a lot of stuff.
That’s highly ironic, because you should start by reading the wiki that article you posted, since you clearly lack the understanding of what happened in that event. Hence why you try to make it applicable to events that have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nice insult though.
Nobody died this time but other than that i agree it doesnt matter if the rivals are in the same party or not.
