Two men in conversation yesterday evening in a Co Kildare pub. One man said to another: ‘These scumbags coming to our country are taking all our women’.
A shocking, dangerous and worrying comment.
In Düsseldorf in 1944 the Gestapo had arrested an opponent to the system, who was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. The authorities discovered he had protected a Jew. His SS jailer said to him while questioning him in the Gestapo interrogation building in Ulmen Straße said to him: “And all this for a filthy Jew’
- From The Good Germans by Catrine Clay
We are living in extremely dangerous times.
There are elections tomorrow in the German State of Brandenburg, where it is forecast the far right AfD could get more than 30 per cent of the vote.
We all need to speak up to stop what is happening.
It’s such an easy slide from words like ‘scumbags’ and ‘filthy Jews’ to Auschwitz and the gulags.
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