Racism and Xenophobia in Germany

             The black tidal wave of racism and xenophobia spreads further over Europe. While it affects millions of people and spreads over the entire social life, it merely encounters disorderly resistance
             or lax resignation. Irresponsible politicians and media think of ways to make a profit from it.
             Racism and xenophobia are openly propagated by extreme-right parties and violent action groups, who recommend the installation of a well-established and consequent new order. This tidal wave has
             resulted mainly from the economic crisis and threatens to flood western democracies (1). In a peaceful and prosperous Europe, in a Europe of freedom, annually thousands of cases of power abuse, acts of violence, and racist murders take place (1527 incidents in Germany in the first 10 months of 1991, of which two-thirds happened in the former DDR, seven thousand in Great Brittain in 1989).
             Murderous attacks with bombs, Molotov cocktails, burning petrol on inhabited buildings, people who are pushed out of a window from a flat or pushed under a car, women being stoned while going to the market, dogs that are released onto children at the entrance of a school (or children that fall victim to violence on a hospital bed like the children from Chernobyl that was treated in Germany); pregnant women who are being raped; Jewish graves and church-yards violated and stained with excrements. Motives? Racial hatred The victims? Always innocent and poor, in an underdog situation. In most cases, they are foreigners who reside in the country, or people considered to be foreigners because of the color of their skin, or migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. They can also be gypsies, tramps, clochards, prostitutes, drug addicts, or homosexuals. And of course, the Jews. The guilty? Mostly youngsters, neo-nazi gangs, skinheads, sometimes military on a night-round, or no matter who, even ordinary average people like in Hoyerswerda where they gave massive presence to exp...

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