59% of West German people oppose West German Prime Minister Brandt kneeling
Hello everyone, I am Lantai.
Many friends say that in reflecting on the crimes of World War II, Japan is far from Germany's position, and Germany sincerely reflected on the war crimes during World War II.
Lantai wants to say that friends who hold such views are so kind, and these friends have been deceived by German propaganda.
Germany is no different from the Japanese right wing in reflecting on the war crimes of World War II, and it is even more excessive than the Japanese right wing.
What was the attitude of the Germans towards the defeat in World War II?
"Only anti-war defeat but not anti-war, I agree with Hitler 's racist theory."
This is not something Lantai made up. This is what many American officers stationed in West Germany after World War II said in an interview with reporters.
And what is more interesting is that the author of "The Rise and Death of the Third Reich" William Shailer was once criticized by West German Prime Minister Arnaden as "a German anti-German!"
William Shailer
But in fact, any friend who has read the book "The Rise and Death of the Third Reich " knows that William Shailer's criticism of all atrocities in Nazi Germany has Nazi Germany's own archives as evidence.
Even though West German Prime Minister Brandt is widely praised by the world, more than half of German citizens say it is "too outrageous". Only 41% of the surveyed people said Brandt was doing the right thing.
The most reflects whether Germany sincerely reflects on World War II crimes is the attitude of Germany towards the non-European people living in Germany during World War II after being persecuted by the Nazis.
However, what is infuriating is that the German government performed very poorly on this issue, even worse than the Japanese right wing. On the issue of "request for compensation from Chinese workers who were captured and plundered to Japan", the Japanese right wing shyly gave 1 billion yen of "consolation money". (Statement: I do not think that the Japanese are correct in giving condolences.)
However, in the decades after World War II, the German government has always been very determined in the face of claims from non- Jews and people in non-European and American countries: No, no, no, no.
The German government denied the persecution of people of color in Germany during World War II by Nazi Germany. If the evidence is as strong as a mountain, the German government will argue that this is not based on racist persecution, but a normal government behavior. The final conclusion is: no compensation is given.
Don’t think that Lantai is slandering Germany.
Hamburg Chinatown ruins
Here, Lantai can use the Gestapo of Nazi Germany in 1944 to capture 130 German Chinese living in Hamburg into the concentration camp and killed 17 of them. The Gestapo confiscated the property of the 130 Chinese living in Hamburg. However, the West German government after the war and the unified new German government in the 1990s refused to compensate and apologize to these Chinese.
Next, Lantai can introduce this tragedy to you in detail.
Chinese settled in Germany in large numbers after the end of war in .
During the First World War, the Allied Power recruited a large number of workers from China. After the war, some workers chose to stay in Europe, of course, mainly France, and some went to Germany.
And these Chinese who went to Germany were combined with the Chinese who settled in Germany during the Qing Dynasty period. By the 1920s, there were about a few thousand Chinese living in Hamburg, Germany.
By 1926, Hamburg even formed a small "Chinatown".
Of course, the German authorities who believe in racism have never welcomed these Chinese people living in Germany. This kind of discrimination does not need to wait until Hitler came to power. As early as the Weimar Republic period, discrimination against Chinese people had already been widespread.
During the Weimar Republic, Hamburg police often raided Hamburg's "China City" without reason because the Germans suspected that these Chinese living in Hamburg were either engaged in opium trading or engaged in some other illegal activities.
Gestapo in the movie
According to the description of Maryette Solty, the daughter of Zhang Tianlin, a Chinese living in Germany, when she was young, Zhang Tianlin told her many atrocities of the German police in that year: Zhang Tianlin runs a bar in Hamburg, but he was often blackmailed by Hamburg police.
. Lars Amenda, a local historian in Hamburg, said that before World War II, Chinese men in Hamburg married and had children and would be called "mixed" by Nazis because they did not meet the standards of "Arian race".
Maryyette Solty told reporters that she was born in 1942, when Hamburg was often air strikes by Allied aircraft, and Chinese in Hamburg were not allowed to enter the air raid shelter to hide, and could only hide at the entrance; because she was worried about her daughter's safety, Zhang Tianlin sent her daughter to the countryside.
However, in 1944, the Gestapo in Hamburg planned to raid Hamburg's " Chinatown ". They arrested 130 Chinese and confiscated their property, including Zhang Tianlin. This is Hamburg's notorious "Chinese Operation", which completely destroyed Hamburg's "China City".
And 17 of these 130 Chinese were killed in the concentration camp.
Zhang Tianlin
After the end of World War II, Zhang Tianlin and others were released. In addition to returning the bar to Zhang Tianlin, Zhang Tianlin did not receive any compensation or apology until his death in 1983.
. The descendants of the victims have repeatedly applied for compensation and apology to the German government, but the German government has never agreed to compensation, let alone apologize.
The German government's reason was: The "Chinese Action" in 1944 was a normal police action, not a racist motive event.
Historian Lars Amenda does not see this way. He said that through the information of the Gestapo that year, it can be clearly seen that this is a planned ethnic cleansing:
With the help of the preserved historical documents, it can be clearly seen that the Gestapo officials at that time regarded themselves as defenders of race, and they also wanted to apply Nazi race theory to Chinese.
He said that his refusal to admit that the "Chinese Action" was a racial persecution, which undoubtedly caused these Chinese to suffer second humiliation.
Zhang Tianlin's "Hong Kong Bar"
This shows that the so-called "Germany's reflection on the crimes of World War II wars is more thorough" is completely wishful thinking of kind Chinese netizens; the Germans' reflection on Jews may be thorough, but Germany does not think that the ethnic cleansing of people of color during World War II was wrong and should not be.
Of course, some friends may think this is an exaggeration in Lantai, but it is really not.
Currently, the most influential football star in Asia in the world is Son Heung-min . He took the initiative to mention his five years of playing in Bundesliga in an interview with Korean media in the 2022 offseason. He said that his five years in Germany were a difficult time for himself because Germany is full of racial discrimination.
is visible, this is really not Lantai’s slander of Germany.
In reflecting on the crimes of World War II, the Japanese right wing and Germany are birds of a feather.
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References:
"75th Anniversary of "Operation Chinese": The End of Hamburg China City", "Financial" magazine;
"Hamburg China City was destroyed: Nazis persecuted Chinese, no apology and compensation so far", "Xiaokang" magazine;
"Sun Heung-min: Suffering racial discrimination in Germany when he was young, and revenge in the 18 World Cup", Korean media "OSEN";
