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German women sweeping a Berlin street after the surrender under the supervision of Marusya Kuznetsova, who spent more than two years as a forced laborer in Germany. 1945
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took me a bit to find the article based on the post bc it's not actually the headline, it's a section title in the article, the whole thing is journalistically very curious. Berlin police president, who is a woman btw, warns against being visibly gay or jewish in "certain areas" of the city without stating any areas, then saying that without wanting to cast cast general suspicion on any ethnic group, any arab is generally suspect of supporting terrorism
"acts of violence against jewish people are thankfully very few", so she says. the whole article is a purely circular argument that only makes any sense whatsoever if you're already of the opinion that arabs aught to be persecuted more. jews and homosexuals shouldn't go to certain quarters bc there's arabs who are violent against jews thankfully there is very little violence against jews most violence against jews is directed towards police officers at protests where they're beating up arab and jewish protesters, the police violence against the latter of which is not violence against jews
also, İ'm sure most of my followers are aware of this, but for the sake of completeness let's state it anyway, german police & military are notorious for right wing extremism in their own ranks, and it takes quite a lot in germany for right wing convictions to be considered extremist. so it is not an exaggeration to say that this rewriting of antisemitism frames jewish resistance to actual nazis as antisemitic
November 15, 2024 - Anti-colonialist activists tore down a statue of Otto von Bismarck in Frankfurt, Germany, and covered it in anti-colonialist graffiti. The toppling came on the 140th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Conference, known as the Kongokonferenz in German, which is seen as emblematic of Europe’s 19th century colonisation of Africa. The Berlin Conference was organised by von Bismarck in 1884 at the request of Belgian King Leopold II, and is seen by historians as formalising how European powers would manage the conquest of Africa. [article]
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November 4, 2023 - A protester raises the Palestinian flag as thousands marched in Berlin in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and in condemnation of the German government's reprehensible support for Israel's war crimes and apartheid. [video]
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
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Sibylle Bergemann
- Das Denkmal
1975 – 1986
Sculptor: Ludwig Engelhardt
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September 6, 2024 - Militant protesters took to Berlin’s streets, responding to Israel’s ruthless expansion of its war of extermination into the West Bank. Around 100 masked activists marched through Berlin, condemning Germany’s direct complicity in the genocide, with Berlin handing weapons straight into the hands of the Israeli occupying forces. Slogans were sprayed on walls like “When West Bank burns, Berlin burns.” Light barricades went up, and pyrotechnics lit the night. [video]
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Germans: Palestinians must die for the sins of my family
you never see these people suggesting that Germany should be offered as a Jewish homeland to atone for the sins of the Germans, strangely enough.
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"Asylum for All"
Corrected billboard for far-right political party AfD (Alternative for Germany)
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"Free All Antifas"
Graff piece in Munich, Germany
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1951, thousands of Germans gathered in the Bavarian town of Landsberg to protest against the death penalty for Nazi war criminals, highlighting the lack of guilt awareness among the German population at the time.
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27-moons
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27-moons
Hmmm
The red triangle on blue and white stripes is the flag of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists, antifascists who were made to wear the red triangle by the Nazis in the concentration camps where they were incarcerated for their anti-nazi actions or ideology.
Germany is once again on the wrong side of history, once again choosing to support genocide. Germany is actively making part of its own antifascist history illegal to support an ongoing genocide!
Germany is banning a German antifascist symbol to stop criticism of the genocide being committed by Israel!
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This is a great in-depth article by Crimethinc about the full happenings at the G20 protests in Hamburg last month, with videos and personal anecdotes and analysis and everything. Here are some quotes I liked from it, but the whole thing is a good read:
All around Hamburg, for several days before the summit, long lines of police vehicles could be seen driving back and forth across the city, creating an atmosphere of totalitarian control. “Look,” I said, pointing to the ambulance at the end of the line of vans, “Social democracy!”
My German friend looked back at me uncomprehendingly.
“In the US, there would be no ambulance,” I explained.
Outside of Hamburg, people took advantage of the fact that so many police had been repositioned to the northern port. In the small town of Wuppertal, activists succeeded in physically blocking the deportation of 38 refugees. As they overheard on the police radio, all Wuppertal’s riot cops were in Hamburg.
Incredibly, the front lines of the black bloc held their ground in these conditions for more than five straight minutes. In video footage, you can see the officers in the front hesitating to attack even as other police are charging the rear of the bloc. The determination of these fifty or so individuals is humbling; it must have given pause to even the most hardened thugs among the police. By holding their position, these comrades managed to enable the people behind them to scale the wall and escape. When they saw that they were the only ones left in the street, they calmly drew back to the wall, even as the police attacked from all sides. The ones on the outside continued holding their lines until everyone behind them had escaped.
Thousands of spectators witnessed this whole thing—the cowardice of the police and the bravery of the black bloc. Within forty-eight hours, the courage of fifty anarchists had become the courage of tens of thousands.
Good times :3
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Peaceful and non-violent protests, I recognize their importance from a communication angle, but that is not what is going to bring about change. If you want the world to change, how do you think it will change? If you always respect the rules, nothing happens. To change the rules, you have to break the rules
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July 6/7/8 2017 - Scenes from the G20 demonstrations in Hamburg. [video]/[video]/[video]/[video]/[video]