Cut-up Germany

Germany's current ambitions as new civilizing superpower to a large degree derive from a number of gross misperceptions about the past 200 years of history, incompletely given here:

-modern (French) nation as a mere power phenomenon (area, population, military strength)
-Napoleon's defeat as an achievement of europe-wide national liberation movements - the peoples: "Völker"
-the victory of 1871 as reward for Prussian style nation building
-the defeat in 1918 as unfair/imposed by jewish capitalism
-WWII as imposed by anglo-american/jewish/communist conspiracy
-German victims in WWII as unfair punishment
-resettlement of Germans after WWII according to German ethnic concept as sign of other country's ethnic violence
-the abscence of a general punishment after WWII as a sign of reconciliation
-the role as front nation(s) in Cold War as due to Germans' inborn industry
-post-WWII Wirtschaftswunder based on war loot and american remedy as self-propelled miracle
-the collapse of the Eastern bloc as Germany's "peaceful revolution"
-the post-Cold War power vacuum as opportunity window for new German ambitions

Summa: If anybody talks about postmodernism, political opposition, continuous crisis, a meaningless world, precarious individual condition - Germans are almost completely free from all that: no doubt, no self-criticism, no distance, no humour - just the blind belief in the own mission to save the world from unpunctuality, inefficiency, and what they regard as bad government - the abscence of total superimposition of people and leader(s).

Hermann Gremliza, translated from the Anti-German magazine konkret 5/05

"The Hitlers come and go, the German people persists": Josef Stalin, optimist. Or was he uttering a cry of desperation, a sigh of resignation there? Whereas Hitler's prophecy, given after the lost battle of Stalingrad, completely fulfilled. What would he and his Goebbels face, if looking from hell's lavatory - if there was one - upon their beloved Fatherland in 2005?

Germany, the greatest power in a Europe free of Jews and Communists whose extermination used to be the final aim...
Like the Soviet Union, the two would also see Yougoslavia smashed into pieces...
The willing service of the most ambitious collaborators of Nazi Germany: Croatia, Albania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraina, and Hungary in today's Germany's reorganization of Europe would be to the Führer's delight.

...Until today, every SS member in the sticks of Lithuania punctually receives his monthly pension from Berlin; not a single German judge who used to decorate the Führer's gallows with 'race desecrators' and deserters, has ever been punished; in Bavaria alone, four years after the war's end 752 of 924 judges were ex-members of the NSDAP...

"Our government would be glad indeed if again five million jobless Germans would go and seek their fortune in distant lands now."

(Letter to the editor, German magazine stern 21/05)

Classless Kulla rearranges The Guardian, Saturday May 7 2005, using scissors and word processors.



German forces were not defeated by the sheer numbers, but by the inventive tactics and sturdy technology of their enemy. If this had not been the case, a huge German-dominated economic empire would have confronted the western allies with a strategic nightmare.

We will listen to Günter Grass: The Federal Republic's almost unconditional subservience to the US was broken for the first time when the SPD-Green ruling coalition decided to make use of the freedom given to us in sovereign terms 60 years ago, by refusing to allow German soldiers to participate in the Iraq war.

Here we go again: A huge German-dominated economic empire confronts the western allies with a strategic nightmare

1945 may be a lesson learned but victory was not automatic. Soviet resistance meant the difference. Losses were the brutal product of German invasion in 1941. If they could do it then, what are the restraints that prevent the developed world from once again lunging into the madness of mass war and state violence?

It's very clear: we will listen to Günter Grass: Parliament is degenerating into a subsidiary of the stock exchange. Democracy has become a pawn to the dictates of globally volatile capital, so that it now only serves the so-called free-market economy in line with the neoliberal Zeigeist. Yet this concept, which has become a fetish, barely conceals the asocial conduct of the banks, industrial associations and market speculators.

It must have been easier with the Queen.We must break.

As the prime minister reconstructed his cabinet
I was on the streets. I had to do something.

Counterfeiters were subsequently busy coining new expressions and putting them into circulation. Crimes perpetrated by the Germans were described as "misdeeds perpetrated in the name of the German people", unconditional surrender was changed into "collapse", Parliament into a subsidiary of the stock exchange, Democracy a pawn to the dictates of globally volatile capital, banks asocial - if they could do it then, what are the restraints that prevent a huge German-dominated economic empire.

We will listen. And focus. Tell them to
leave the party
and the nation

guessing as to when he might go