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Widespread Naturalization Test Fraud in Germany Uncovered

German police have uncovered a large-scale fraud network that enabled migrants to obtain language certificates and naturalization documents without meeting the required standards.

Authorities in Nuremberg said several suspects organised German-speaking deputies to sit language and naturalization tests on behalf of applicants who were unable to pass the exams themselves. The forged certificates were sold for between €2,500 and €6,000 and later used to secure residence permits or German citizenship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany’s Decline Is a Warning Canada Should Heed Now

The results of Germany’s energy and immigration failures have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash.

Germany was postwar Europe’s greatest economic success story. Today it is a cautionary tale. Once the continent’s industrial engine, Germany has spent the past decade dismantling the foundations of its prosperity through energy and immigration policies driven more by ideology than evidence or good sense. The results have been rising costs, falling competitiveness, social disorder, and political backlash.

Canada should study this record closely—because we are pursuing many of the same policies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Germany

Berlin hospitals threatened by spate of attacks

The Berlin Hospital Association (BKG) has issued a warning describing a spate of seemingly “inexplicable incidents” at hospitals and health care facilities in the capital. These range from drone incursions over hospital grounds and cyberattacks to forced entry and arson.

The BKG said Germany’s security and intelligence services have classified at least some of these attacks as potential acts of hybrid warfare. The protection of health care facilities is “no longer a purely internal matter for hospitals, but a task that must be addressed together with the security services,” according to the BKG.

For security reasons, the BKG told DW that it could not disclose exactly where the incidents it refers to in the statement took place. The “growing hybrid threat” had prompted the BKG to raise awareness among Berlin hospitals to establish effective self-protection, it said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

German MPs Vote to Keep Law Criminalising Insults Against Politicians

The vote comes as prosecutions under the statute surge and critics warn the law is being used to shield those in power from public scrutiny.

The German parliament has rejected a proposal by the right-wing AfD to abolish Section 188 of the Criminal Code, a provision that gives public officials special protection from criminal insults, defamation, and slander.

The vote took place on Thursday evening, with all parliamentary groups except the AfD opposing the motion.

But the AfD are the fascists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?, WTF?

Migrant Pulls 18-Year-Old Woman Onto Hamburg Subway Tracks

A 25-year-old South Sudanese migrant killed an 18-year-old woman in a fatal subway attack in Hamburg on Thursday evening, after seizing her and pulling her with him into the track bed in front of an incoming train. Both the victim and the perpetrator died at the scene. German police are investigating the case as a suspected homicide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany prepares for Russia to attack Nato in two years

Russia launches a full-scale war of aggression against Nato and the German armed forces are in the thick of the action from the first hours.

A 4,800-strong mechanised infantry strikes from a forward base in Lithuania before another 15,000 rapid-response troops are rushed to the front in a matter of days.

Over the weeks that follow tens of thousands of allied soldiers arrive at German North Sea ports to be shuttled east along road and rail routes plagued by Russian sabotage, cyberattacks and possibly long-range missile strikes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, NATO, Russia

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America

Storage of reserves must be reassessed because US ‘no longer reliable partner of the EU’, say economists

Germany has been urged to withdraw more than £100bn worth of gold from US vaults because Donald Trump’s unpredictability has made the deposits too “risky”.

The country currently stores 1,236 tons of gold, roughly the same weight as three Air Force One jets, at the US Federal Reserve in New York worth around €164bn (£122bn).

Economists and politicians have warned this leaves the vast wealth exposed to the whim of an increasingly erratic US president, who this month alone has threatened Europe with crippling sanctions over Greenland, burst into Venezuela and captured its president, and is poised to launch air strikes on Iran.

As if the EU was ever reliable on any matter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, USA

Germany arrests suspected Hamas member over alleged attack plot

German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe.

The man, named as “Mohammad S”, was stopped at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport after arriving from Beirut on Friday evening.

Federal prosecutors said that in August 2025 he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition and was involved in an alleged plot to attack Jewish and Israeli institutions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Germany, Hamas, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany’s Military Recruitment Drive Has a Gen Z Problem

BERLIN—The country on the front line of Europe’s rearmament effort is struggling to meet its military recruitment goals. The problem isn’t pacifism, but young people posing a new variation on the age-old question: “What is in it for me?”

European nations have stepped up military spending and begun preparing for a potential conflict with Russia. As a part of the effort, countries such as Germany and France have sought to get young people thinking about military service again.

Germany has introduced a new military service, initially on a voluntary basis. Some 700,000 men and women born in 2008 started receiving questionnaires this month about their fitness and willingness to serve. Only men are obliged to answer, and they will have to report for medical evaluation, whether they want to serve or not.

Related – German weapons failing in Ukraine

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Seven-Month Sentence for Political Meme Heads to Appeal in Germany

Translation: I hate freedom of expression

A German court will this week revisit a controversial conviction over a political meme that has drawn international attention and reignited debate over the limits of satire and freedom of expression in Europe.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the Bamberg Regional Court will hear the appeal in the criminal case against David Bendels, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Deutschland-Kurier (DK), who was sentenced to seven months’ probation for sharing a satirical meme depicting then–interior minister Nancy Faeser holding a sign reading “I hate freedom of expression.”

It will happen here …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Germany, WTF?

Germany’s nationalist AfD party looks to take power in 2026

BERLIN — For the 13 years since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — labeled “right-wing extremist” by the country’s domestic intelligence agency and accused by others of xenophobia, antisemitism and Islamophobia — has stood in opposition. Opposition to the European Union. Opposition to immigration. And, as the largest party outside the governing coalition after last year’s federal elections, opposition to Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

This year, the AfD is looking to lead for the first time — by winning control of a state government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Germany planning ‘Arctic Sentry’ Nato mission to protect Greenland

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Germany is planning to set up a joint Nato operation in the Arctic in an effort to dissuade Donald Trump from annexing Greenland.

The “Arctic Sentry” mission to monitor threats in the region could be modelled on Nato’s “Baltic Sentry” operation, which started last year to monitor threats and protect infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, sources told Bloomberg.

Mr Trump has threatened to forcibly take control of the mineral-rich island that is a territory of Denmark, a Nato member.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Greenland, USA, WTF?

US troops in Germany are legacy of World War II, Cold War

Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland has raised questions about the US’s commitment to NATO. The US maintains a major military presence in Germany — a vital part of its post-World War II national defense strategy.

Germany has been a vital part of the United States’ defense strategy in Europe since Allied forces occupied the country for 10 years following the end of World War II.

Though troop numbers have, of course, fallen significantly since those days, the US military still maintains a major presence in Germany, and over the intervening decades, American military communities have formed around a handful of German towns.

The total number of US military personnel has also risen significantly in the past few years, from fewer than 39,000 in 2019 to over 50,000 in 2024. The only other country where the US keeps a comparable number of overseas troops is Japan.

GOOGLE AI – Does the German public wish that America would close it’s military bases in Germany?

Desire for Withdrawal: Recent data indicates that approximately 47% of Germans support reducing the number of U.S. soldiers, and roughly 25% (one in four) would prefer a complete withdrawal of all American forces.

Geopolitical Shifts: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has created a paradoxical situation where many Germans feel “unprotected” and “abandoned” by U.S. policy shifts, yet 58% oppose Germany taking a leading military role to replace the U.S..

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, NATO, USA

Germany is giving eco-terrorists an easy ride

“At first, it was an adventure. Now, the cold has arrived, and police are patrolling the area.” That’s how one Berliner described what life has been like without electricity since Saturday; on Monday night, temperatures dipped to -7°C. At the weekend, an arson attack on the grid which supplies some of the wealthiest districts of the German capital cut power to around 45,000 people and over 2,200 businesses. Left-wing militants have claimed responsibility, yet public responses have been remarkably muted. The authorities would do well to shift gear, given that the disruptive effects of such incidents extend far beyond those directly affected. Germany should start taking Left-wing terror as seriously as it does threats from the Right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Far Left Extremism", Germany