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Lest We Forget #698 DATE:6/5/93
AGAIN NAZI VIOLENCE IN GERMANY
There is no abatement of Nazi violence in Germany. Neither is it
confined to the former Communist area, where the first rash of outbreaks
against foreign laborers and "the Jew" occurred. (Anti-semitism doesn't need
Jews, but only the absent mythic "Jew.") The most recent murder victims,
five of them little girls, died in Solingen not far from Bonn.
Again tens of thousands of German citizens, determined to demonstrate
that the terrorists do not speak for their country, have taken to the streets
in protest and opposition to the Nazis and skinhead street-fighters. And
again the leadership of their recently re-united country is split as to how
to confront the problem.
There are two basic facts that no amount of moralizing can do away with.
One is the presence of several million non-Germans who do not have German
citizenship but enjoy the basic social welfare guarantees. These guarantees
are, comparatively speaking, considerably in advance of what the United
States provides for its own unemployed and indigent citizens. Some German
tax-payers are staging the kind of revolt against assessments that we see
here, and asking why they should continue to support foreigners in their
midst. A smaller number of Nazis are playing on this discontent to gain
sympathy and support for their violent "solutions."
Many of these non-Germans came to the western part of Germany, before
re-unification, when the German economic expansion desperately needed able-
bodied men. Germany was short between five and six million German men due to
the war. The vacuum was filled chiefly by Turks, Yugoslavs and Italians, who
found there a pay scale and standard of living they could never attain at
home. Even when the recession set in, in Europe and America, half of them
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| Document Content | Lest We Forget #698 DATE:6/5/93 AGAIN NAZI VIOLENCE IN GERMANY There is no abatement of Nazi violence in Germany. Neither is it confined to the former Communist area, where the first rash of outbreaks against foreign laborers and "the Jew" occurred. (Anti-semitism doesn't need Jews, but only the absent mythic "Jew.") The most recent murder victims, five of them little girls, died in Solingen not far from Bonn. Again tens of thousands of German citizens, determined to demonstrate that the terrorists do not speak for their country, have taken to the streets in protest and opposition to the Nazis and skinhead street-fighters. And again the leadership of their recently re-united country is split as to how to confront the problem. There are two basic facts that no amount of moralizing can do away with. One is the presence of several million non-Germans who do not have German citizenship but enjoy the basic social welfare guarantees. These guarantees are, comparatively speaking, considerably in advance of what the United States provides for its own unemployed and indigent citizens. Some German tax-payers are staging the kind of revolt against assessments that we see here, and asking why they should continue to support foreigners in their midst. A smaller number of Nazis are playing on this discontent to gain sympathy and support for their violent "solutions." Many of these non-Germans came to the western part of Germany, before re-unification, when the German economic expansion desperately needed able- bodied men. Germany was short between five and six million German men due to the war. The vacuum was filled chiefly by Turks, Yugoslavs and Italians, who found there a pay scale and standard of living they could never attain at home. Even when the recession set in, in Europe and America, half of them |
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