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00:00Well, as the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany approaches, European countries are doing all they can to stop Russian diplomats from attending commemorative events.
00:11One example, in Germany, authorities threaten the Russian officials that they will be escorted off the premises of a former concentration camp if they arrive at the official memorial ceremony.
00:26Russia's presidential aide accused Europe of still not being ready to, quote, reject Nazis.
00:33And take a listen.
00:34Desperately resisting global changes, Brussels, Berlin, Paris and a number of other European capitals are once again following the shameful path of flirting with the Nazis, deploying their military machines against Russia.
00:47During World War Two, some Europeans joined the Allied fleets to lead convoys to Murmansk, while others donned SS uniforms and went to Russian soil to burn villages.
00:57Even today, there's no unified position in Europe regarding the rejection of Nazism and preventing the memory of the joint struggle against it.
01:05Yeah, a lot of people unhappy with what is unfolding.
01:09In fact, we spoke to one author and musician Hans Eckhard Wenzel, who sent an open letter to the director of that concentration camp hosting the memorial.
01:20He says authorities are refusing to bridge divides by honoring the dead together in a worrying historical throwback.
01:26The federal foreign office fears that the events will be exploited by Russia and in a memo advised against allowing the participation of representatives of Russia and Belarus in commemorative events for the end of the Second World War.
01:44Can this behavior towards the victors be assessed as revisionist regarding the results of the war?
01:50Mr. Wenzel?
01:50There are warnings about politicizing this memorial event, yet that is precisely what the federal foreign office is doing.
01:59You could say they are summoning the ghosts of the past to restructure society.
02:04And that's exactly what we're witnessing now.
02:07The goal is to make this country war-ready.
02:10Such developments are deeply alarming.
02:12Think of how beautiful it was when a concentration camp was liberated, when the gates opened and the prisoners were finally free.
02:19What an opportunity this could have been for Europe to commemorate, if all those involved could gather at such a site.
02:26We could have reached across divides, honoring the dead together.
02:29But that chance has been lost.
02:32This infuriates me, because it feels like a return to the pre-World War I era.
02:37The world is being reshaped by the U.S., while the BRICS nations, China, Russia, and others, are scrambling to redefine their roles.
02:44Europe, meanwhile, is taking a very peculiar stance.
02:49It seems it had a vested interest in this Ukraine war from the start.
02:53It sabotaged peace negotiations and now repeatedly weaponizes the conflict against Trump's efforts.
03:00And now, even this memorial event is being exploited for the same purpose.
03:05I have to say, such trends disgust me.
03:07That's why I wrote an open letter to the director of the Sachsenhausen Memorial.
03:12Over the graves of those who gave their lives for liberation, we must act with restraint.
03:17Not resort to such tactics.
03:20Not extend hands in hollow gestures.
03:22They call it value-based foreign policy.
03:25But in reality, it's just war propaganda.
03:28We must resist this and take responsibility.
03:30The director of the Brandenburg Memorial's Foundation is threatening Russian representatives with police action
03:39if they do not stay away from the commemorative events.
03:43Once again this year, Berlin police will issue a general order prohibiting the demonstration of Russian flags
03:49and Soviet medals on May 8th and 9th.
03:53Now, it's getting serious.
03:55I dare say direct parallels can be drawn with the police methods of Hitler's Germany can be drawn here.
04:02Are Western democracies openly showing right-wing extremist tendencies more and more often?
04:09There was no response from the museum.
04:11However, I received many letters from people, especially in eastern Germany,
04:16who have a different perspective on the matter.
04:18Of course, there were also plenty of insults, which seems to be part of political culture now.
04:23But from the Sachsenhausen Memorial itself, nothing.
04:28This is important to me because friends of mine, people I grew up with,
04:32were imprisoned in that concentration camp.
04:35They wanted to document a story and requested access to prisoner records.
04:39But even after 80 years, the archive remains closed.
04:42I received no real answer, just a vague message that it would take a very long time.
04:47My suspicion is that they'd rather focus on media appearances,
04:51positioning themselves as model citizens in the headlines.
04:55Beyond that, there's nothing more to say.
04:57The Berlin Senate calls the presence of the Russian ambassador at the commemorations undesirable,
05:05despite the historical role of the Soviet Union in the liberation from Nazi rule.
05:13Why do European politicians feel entitled to humiliate the nation that suffered the most in the war?
05:20Mr. Wenzel?
05:21This reveals a certain hubris inherent in Western European culture.
05:27When we examine recent EU and NATO policies, we see a striking absence of common sense.
05:33The actual points of unity remain unclear.
05:37History has long shown that societies often need an external enemy,
05:40one that must be carefully constructed.
05:43First you demonize it, then you invoke the ghosts of the past,
05:47exploiting the dead for your own purposes.
05:49We must view this in a broader context.
05:52It's not simply about moral outrage.
05:54European nations are experiencing profound erosion.
05:58Leaders like Macron and Starmer lack solid majorities,
06:01and Germany's political foundation grows increasingly unstable.
06:05Economically speaking, it's tantamount to waging war.
06:09What we're witnessing here is essentially war preparation disguised as commemoration.
06:14By excluding participation from those who lost children or parents in the fight against fascism,
06:19we're manipulating their sacrifice.
06:20The bitter irony speaks for itself, yet this truth remains unwelcome.
06:26I'm familiar with this dynamic.
06:28When your voice isn't wanted, they simply declare you persona non grata.
06:33Whether it's a fascist machine, you're a path against the world.
06:34Even if it becomes treasure, it's not a****s woman Reich.
