Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/germany@feddit.org/t/1945027

A small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the genocide.

The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)...

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[–] 53 points 3 weeks ago (103 children)

CNN using 'East German' in the headline as if East Germany still exists and is somehow to blame for this is incredibly cynical.

You know who wouldn't have let this happen? The German Democratic Republic. But its forcible annexation into the Nazi successor state next door, resulting in its flooding with capitalist propaganda even as the quality of life collapsed under shock doctrine, is why there is such a resurgence of far-right politics in the east. Once again, the forcible, antidemocratic destruction of communism in Europe by the US Empire reveals itself as one of the greatest disasters in history.

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    [–] 29 points 3 weeks ago

    East Germany was more legitimate then the other Germany.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Nazis don't like being reminded of their ugly

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    [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago

    Germans are efficient.
    They're simply making place for new stumbling blocks for the holocaust they're supporting now.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago

    The CDU saying "what firewall?" not for some generic conservative issue but for straightforward Nazi whitewashing sure is a choice.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago

    Germans when literal genocide: 😍

    Germans when their Liberal symbolism is removed: 😡

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    Heidenau, that's the name of the town.

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