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The author of the article accused Hape Kerkeling of portraying his grandfather in a speech in the Thuringian state parliament as a victim of National Socialism and of dramatically equating his imprisonment in Buchenwald with that of persecuted Jews. According to the author, Kerkeling concealed the reasons for his grandfather's imprisonment, Hermann Anton Kerkeling. According to the article, Hermann Anton Kerkeling was sentenced to eight years in a correctional facility in October 1933 for 17 counts of livestock and property theft during the economic crisis. Shortly thereafter, an additional year was added for preparation for high treason, among other things in connection with the communist pamphlet Rote Welle. He served his sentence in Münster, Papenburg, and Bremen. After that, the Gestapo ordered protective custody in Münster in May 1942. On July 2, 1942, Kerkeling was brought to Buchenwald as a political prisoner with the number 6117. He worked in the effects chamber and remained in Nazi custody until the liberation of the camp on April 11, 1945 – a total of about twelve years. He died in Recklinghausen in 1993 at the age of 91. The author described him as an active communist and gang thief, not as a typical victim of National Socialism. #Geschichte #Nationalsozialismus #Erinnerung (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn wrote that Mrs. Seidlitz did not want to face his critical questions about Hermann Göring. He suspected that the confrontation would have been embarrassing for her, and compared this to his assessment that they considered themselves intellectually superior to him. https://t.co/z8GuKNHZnj #Humor #Gespräch #Kritik (translated)

Grete Hermann, a prominent German mathematician, made pioneering contributions to computer algebra and challenged the validity of John von Neumann's theorem on quantum mechanics, but her career was cut short by Nazism, leading her to oblivion. #GreteHermann #Matemáticas #HistoriaDeLaCiencia (translated)

The memorial service for the late coach Peter Hermann (†74) at the BayArena turned into an emotional reunion of the Bundesliga, with over 200 guests, including prominent club representatives and companions, honoring the life and achievements of the coaching legend. #PeterHermann #Bundesliga #Gedenkfeier (translated)

Markus Frohnmaier accused Ralf Stegner (SPD) of downplaying the horrors of National Socialism and offending millions of voters by comparing a democratic election in Saxony-Anhalt with Hermann Göring and the Nazi dictatorship. Stegner was either forgetful of history or stupid, wrote Frohnmaier. #AfD #SachsenAnhalt #Demokratie https://t.co/Fu16dmJX6q #Demokratie #SachsenAnhalt #Nationalsozialismus (translated)

Max Mannhart wrote that the leader of the Left Party, Eva von Angern, referred to Clara Zetkin in her speech at the opening of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, with regard to Siegmund. Zetkin was the oldest member in the Weimar Republic before Hermann Göring took over the position of President of the Reichstag. Mannhart described Zetkin as a fervent anti-democrat and wrote that she had called for extraparliamentary violence to overthrow the bourgeois state in a speech and celebrated the Soviet Union under Stalin. In a show trial in Moscow, she demanded the death penalty as a prosecutor against political opponents. The author called the reference to Zetkin an example of the historical ignorance of those who speak particularly often and loudly about 1933. #Geschichte #Politik #SachsenAnhalt (translated)

The leader of the elected representatives of Die Linke (far left) in Saxony-Anhalt, Eva von Angern, has drawn a historical parallel with Hermann Göring, a bigwig of the Nazi regime who became the president of the German Parliament in 1932. #AfD #SaxeAnhalt #ExtrêmeDroite (translated)

Sahra Wagenknecht stated that the BSW wants to end the "firewall" to the AfD. In her view, the strongest faction in a state parliament should also provide the president of the state parliament; with a voter approval of 44 percent, that is self-evident. This parliamentary normality should no longer be disregarded in relation to the AfD. The BSW had promised a reasonable approach to the AfD and an end to the firewall before the election and is now implementing this, she wrote. Wagenknecht described the comparison of the AfD candidate for the presidency of the state parliament with Hermann Göring as the low point of the debate and as a trivialization of National Socialism. There is no "Göring 2.0" up for election. Anyone who relativizes the greatest crimes committed by Germans in this way has lost all compass, she wrote. #Politik #Landtag #AfD (translated)

The author claimed that Olavo de Carvalho argued that the right should occupy cultural spaces and institutions before coming to power, to prevent the left from dominating public and institutional opinion. According to him, the right took a long time to act, but the institutions themselves began to confront each other publicly, exposing what he called a pretense of harmony among the Powers. He wrote that, without the commodity boom and amidst public demands for favors and scandals that, according to him, involved even the highest court, the PT contested an election with the least political capital in its history. He said the party suffered a significant defeat, even in strongholds where it used to be the majority, and predicted that Lula would reach the second round morally and politically defeated, with few allies elected to the positions of deputy, senator, and governor. The author attributed part of this weariness to the popular perception of the institutions and the cost of what he described as an "institutional theater." He stated that workers, entrepreneurs, students, churchgoers, and consumers felt the effects in their wallets and daily lives. He also said that Lula could still win by a margin of 51% to 49% and appoint four more people he referred to as "emperors." Finally, he wrote that he did not consider politics a solution for the country, as he understood the problem to be spiritual. He said he observed what he called, quoting Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a "failing god," and concluded by asking for divine mercy for the nation. #Política #Direita #Lula (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn wrote that he had not received a response from the Greens to his question about Hermann Göring. He may meet Mrs. Sziborra-Seidlitz on Tuesday in Magdeburg and ask her his questions in person. Furthermore, he accused her of belittling the Nazi era with her comparison to Göring and revealing a gap in education. Göring was not the President of the Landtag, but the President of the Reichstag, Barghoorn wrote. #Politik #Bildung #NSGeschichte (translated)

To think about: In April 1946, Nazi leader Hermann Göring explained in his cell in Nuremberg exactly how political power really works. He said that ordinary people never demand war or crisis, but you can always get them on board. The recipe is simple: tell them they are in danger, and accuse the critics of endangering the community. That eighty-year-old formula is today the exact blueprint behind the permanent state of crisis in which we are kept. We see this in the conflict between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, where fear is used to push through billions in weapons without real democratic debate. But it doesn’t stop at geopolitics. We saw the same recipe with COVID-19, and now with climate change and the energy transition. It penetrates into our immediate living environment, such as the Environmental Vision Fryslân or the planned closures of the Wadden nature. While island residents are excluded, the elite discusses coercive 'system changes' at the Springtij Forum on Terschelling. The control over the narrative has now gone frighteningly far. Unheard Netherlands (ON!) is being ousted from the public broadcasting system, and through new legislation, there is an open search for ways to ban right-wing opposition parties. This is exactly where history painfully begins to rhyme with the 1930s, when critical media and parties were gradually silenced under the guise of 'public order' or 'safety'. The lines of this coordinated policy go directly to international networks and think tanks such as NATO, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the UN with their coercive SDGs. Through programs like the Young Global Leaders, politicians worldwide are being trained to roll out exactly the same crisis narratives in their own countries. Our local democracy seems to have become an execution office for a predetermined global agenda. The great eye-opener that Göring left us is that this mechanism works in every system. Once a population is made afraid enough of an invisible enemy (whether it is a virus, an aggressor, nitrogen, or CO₂), it willingly surrenders its freedom, its diverse media, and its common sense. Fear is the ultimate weapon to steer the masses. This pattern only stops when we cease to blindly follow that automatic pilot of fear. Will you let history repeat itself, or will you say no? #politiek #geschiedenis #angst (translated)

100-year-old US veteran Frank Athanason, one of the last living witnesses of the Nuremberg Trials, recalls how, at the age of 19, he sat opposite the defendants Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess, experiencing the historical significance of the trial as well as the personal tragedy of his brother, who had fallen in World War II. #NürnbergerProzesse #Zeitzeugen #ZweiterWeltkrieg (translated)

On September 30 and October 1, 1946, twelve death sentences were imposed in the Nuremberg Trials against the Nazi elite, including Hermann Göring, while the trials are considered a milestone of modern international criminal law. #NürnbergerProzess #VerbrechenGegenDieMenschlichkeit #NSDAP (translated)