Almost 80 years after the Nazis surrendered, bringing WW2 to an end, the totalitarian specter of Adolf Hitler and his genocidal war criminals still haunts Germany.
So much so, that the German political establishment is always expressing its worries about extremists – which can be a good thing, but also became an overused smear to taint any right wing or populist movement, whether or not these have actual extremist tendencies.
But when confronted with the real-life, contemporary Nazis in Ukraine, German leaders don’t seem to mind or even acknowledge their existence, and in fact extend them their full, continuous, unambiguous support.
And if we take a close look at the three-party coalition led by Olaf Scholz, we see that the most enthusiastic backers of the Kiev Nazis are the leftist ‘green’ politicians, such as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
Back in January, Baerbock and Chancellor Scholz attended a Potsdam rally against the surging AfD party.
“Baerbock told Germany’s dpa press agency that she and other locals were taking a ‘stand for democracy and against old and new fascism’.”
But is she really against fascism and nazism?
German paper BILD now comes with a damaging report, based on leaked documents, stating that Baerbock’s grandfather was ‘an unconditional National Socialist’ who had read ‘Mein Kampf’ and fully stood with the Nazi regime.