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Teachers in eastern Germany face far-right threats (www.dw.com)

submitted 1 year ago by misk@lemm.ee to c/europe@feddit.de

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Incidents at a school in the eastern German state of Brandenburg have given rise to fears over far-right sentiment in the classroom. Officials have expressed dismay, encouraging teachers not to shrink from hate.

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[–] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a byproduct of the way the GDR was dissolved. The west Germans went through a rough time when they attempted to de-nazify themselves.

East Germany completely skipped that part. Thanks to the weird GDR indoctrination we know have a weird blob of underlying extremism. Fucking sucks and the right wing party gets an unfortunate amount of support because of it and the current politicians.

[–] bassocontinuo@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely ahistorical comment. The GDR denazified much more thoroughly, especially in the conservative /monarchical-leaning juridical branch, with well known consequences (eg, lack of judges with proper education). You can make a point that the ideologically loaded suppression was fostering an resurgence after the fall of the wall, but what you write is .. false.

[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The GDR denazified much more thoroughly, especially in the conservative /monarchical-leaning juridical branch, with well known consequences (eg, lack of judges with proper education).

But on the other hand, didn't the SED give old Nazis a political home in the National Front, supposedly to keep them in check and prevent them from potentially becoming an opposition force?

GDR was not alone in using this strategy, but I'm not aware of anywhere that didn't end up lending a lot of legitimacy to fascists and coming back to bite them in the end. Same story played out in my country of origin, but there it was the centre-right that decided that they should absorb the fascists in an attempt to control them, and it predictably backfired.