• Mika@sopuli.xyz
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      The fuck, they just attacked the protest and they have the audacity to claim they were subjected to verbal abuse or whatever. Nobody should have the right to just push the protest out of the street just because they feel like it.

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        They have the backing by the state government. The police violence is part of thr strategy to crack down on dissent as the state government knows it is complicit in Israeli crimes and deeply in bed with Israel-extremist lobby groups. This state government also runs a campaign of expanding racism in particular against “Arabs” and violent escalations by the police help to create news reports of violent and rowdy immigrants making the city insecure, conveniently leaving out the massive violence by the police.

        • deltapi@lemmy.world
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          Interesting. Do you have any further reading material I can look into? I’m very curious about the former eastern parts of Germany, I’ve read before that they weren’t ‘de-nazified’ the way the west was, and I really want to know more.

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            It was more the opposite way around.

            In Western Germany the official apparatus was rebuilt relying extensively on mid- and sometimes high ranking Nazis. In the GDR former Nazis were kept out of higher positions, but the “denazification” was also insufficient as the problem was “solved” by decreeing that the GDR is antifascist, thereby looking deeper wasn’t necessary.

            https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-dictatorship-to-democracy-the-role-ex-nazis-played-in-early-west-germany-a-810207.html

            For instance the author of the Nuremberg Race laws became a close trustee of chancellor Adenauer:

            The chancellor, for his part, entrusted himself and his chancellery to Hans Globke, a former official in Hitler’s interior ministry and one of the authors of the Nuremberg race laws. The man Adenauer once called “my dear Herr Globke” was the most powerful government official in Germany for a time, even though anyone who wanted to know could easily consult the abominable lawyer’s anti-Semitic concoctions

            The interior intelligence was rebuilt using former SS and Gestapo:

            Institutions that, unlike the Finance Ministry, were newly established in the spirit and on the foundation of the new constitution, also employed people formerly affiliated with the Nazis. As the new study shows, former SS members with Gestapo experience were employed at the BfV as wiretapping and postal surveillance experts – initially as free agents, “because, after all, they did have to respect the fact that these people were tainted,” then BfV President Hubert Schrübbers once noted. Schrübbers himself was later removed from office over allegations of his own Nazi past. But nothing against Hitler’s Gestapo. “These people were experts,” a former senior BfV official said in 1965.

            The federal criminal investigators (BKA), think of it like a German FBI:

            The situation was even worse at the BKA. At times, former members of the SS’s Totenkopf division held more than two-thirds of all senior positions. When the agency began looking into the past of its employees in 1960, about 100 officials, or a quarter of the entire workforce, were investigated.

            This enjoyed backing by the US in particular, but the Western allies more broadly, who thought the Nazis as useful for fighting against Communism:

            But the Americans did not insist that Gehlen provide them with access to the personnel files of his employees. When a critical member of the US Congress questioned then President Harry S. Truman about cooperation with Gehlen, Truman grumbled: “This guy Gehlen, I don’t care if he screws flies. If he can help us, we’ll use him.”

            I recommend you to read the entire article. It goes on further about the judiciary and other aspects with strong continuity.

            Another person not mentioned is Hanns Martin Schleyer. He is celebrated as a martyr nowadays and there is streets and stadiums named after him. He was assasinated by the RAF terrorists in 1977, when he was the head of the German employer association and the German industrial Federation.

            As SS-Untersturmführer he was tasked with “ariazation” of the Czech economy. When Schleyer is celebrated as victim of communism in Germany of course this part is omitted to this day.
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Martin_Schleyer

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      First punch at 1:16. Second punch is at 1:31. Then the same coward perp-walks her.

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      Nah, any lawsuit following this is going to be dismissed because she pushed brutally assaulted the officer who then, fearing for his very life, had to defend himself. /s

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    The officer straight up punched him in the face, without any indication of physical violence from the victim.

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      I have some friends who were there for a certain G20 meeting. They told me cops were very jovial and helpful after they finished beating you up.