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Back to the GDR? Why east Germans doubt reunification was worth it

A month after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the East German rock star Petra Zieger and her band winched their instruments up to the top of the Brandenburg Gate, looming 85ft over the government district.

For a little over a decade she and her husband, the band’s drummer Peter Taudte, had been testing the boundaries of what artists could get away with under the stifling censorship of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Her hit single Das Eis taut (“The Ice is Thawing”), thought to be the only piece of music ever performed atop the landmark, captured the zeitgeist: a volatile mixture of optimism, wariness, uncertainty and excitement.

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2026February 24, 2026•0•Germany

The German army’s drones disaster

German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of Ukraine. And it has certainly turned: towards spending billions of taxpayer euros on drones that cannot fly in frontline situations, seemingly cannot hit their targets, and whose largest investors sit not in Berlin or Brussels, but in Silicon Valley boardrooms with direct lines to the White House and CIA. If this is European defence sovereignty, one could wonder what this dependency actually looks like. And if Europe really is serious about this change.

Seems there’s a lesson for Carney in this. But I’m sure his China pivot will smooth things out.

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2026February 24, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany, WTF?

Happy Ramadan! Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people in German train station

Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people at Jehovah’s Witness stand in German train station before being overpowered by hero civilians

An Afghan knifeman has attacked multiple people at a Jehovah’s Witness stand in a German train station.

The 35-year-old attacker was then overpowered by heroic civilians at Würzburg Central Station who rushed to the victims’ aid.

Police are treating it as an attempted homicide and have arrested a suspect in connection with the attack who is now in custody.

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2026February 23, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany’s AfD poll 37% ahead of rivals in September regional vote

The ~~anti-immigrant~~ Pro-Germany Alternative for Germany (AfD) party holds a commanding lead in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as voters across several regions are set to cast their ballots in a bumper election year.

The AfD topped a representative survey by pollsters Forsa in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 37%, followed by the Social Democrats (SPD), who lead the current state government, with 23%.

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2026February 19, 2026•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Germany Records Sharp Increase in Ideologically Motivated Attacks Against Its Nationals

New federal data reveals a steady climb in criminal offenses targeting Germans based on their ethnicity. According to a government report requested by Alternative für Deutschland MP Martin Hess, authorities recorded 377 anti-German incidents in 2025. While this represents a modest 3.3% increase from the 365 cases in 2024, the long-term trend is stark: in 2019, there were fewer than a third as many cases (132).

by Blazingcatfur•February 20, 2026February 19, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

GWYN MORGAN: Germany’s green energy gamble and open borders backfired, Canada should take note

Muslims in Germany: Caliphate is the solution

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.

Germany has one thing going for it Canada does not – The AfD.

by Blazingcatfur•February 18, 2026February 17, 2026•0•Canada, Germany

Germany: Have Certain Terrorists Been Getting a Pass?

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, a reportedly leftist radical network, “Volcano Group” (Vulkangruppe), committed an arson attack against the power grid in Berlin, Germany, causing an electricity blackout that left 45,000 households and 2,000 businesses – approximately 100,000 people – without heat and light during freezing winter temperatures for up to five days. It was reportedly the longest blackout in Germany since World War II.

The radicals in Volcano Group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement, they said that the network had aimed to “cut the juice to the ruling class” and claimed that the attack was about action to protect the climate from fossil fuels, artificial intelligence and a “greed for energy.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2026February 17, 2026•0•"Far Left Extremism", Germany, terror attack, Terrorism - Domestic

German and UK military chiefs state case for rearming

The defense chief of Germany’s Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, and the United Kingdom’s chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, have jointly stated the case for rearming, amid the threat posed by Russia.

The top military officials penned a joint letter, published in The Guardian and German newspaper Welt, in which they said there was a “moral” case to be made for rearming.

by Blazingcatfur•February 16, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Germany, UK

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.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2026February 9, 2026•0•Camp 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.

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2026February 9, 2026•0•Canada, 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.

by Blazingcatfur•February 6, 2026February 5, 2026•0•Germany

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.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2026January 31, 2026•0•Germany, 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.

🇩🇪 A South Sudanese migrant grabbed an 18-year-old girl on a Hamburg metro platform before jumping into the path of an incoming train, dragging her with him and killing them both.

The attack happened at 10 p.m. last night at the Wandsbek Markt metro station.

Witnesses report… pic.twitter.com/Lx7h463KXC

— Europa.com (@europa) January 30, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•January 31, 2026January 30, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

‘Left Wing Terrorism is Back‘: $1.2M Reward Offered For Berlin Attacker

German police are still no closer to identifying a suspect over the left-wing terror attack that plunged much of Berlin into darkness for days during freezing weather, and have posted a bounty to encourage the public to turn in those responsible.

by Blazingcatfur•January 29, 2026January 29, 2026•0•"Far Left Extremism", 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.

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2026January 26, 2026•0•Germany, NATO, Russia