Germany's New 'Ministry of Truth'

The American ambassador to Germany during the First World War, James W. Gerard, wrote a book entitled, My Four Years in Germany, in which he observed an anti-Semitic group called "The League of Truth". The purpose of the group, other than overt Antisemitism, was to publish German propaganda. At least in Germany, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Germans need to do what Americans did: ignore the polls, ignore the media & lying politicians and resolve to vote for someone able and willing to take down the establishment. In their case, AFD.

Canvas door to door and raise a quit tide of voters for AFD to give the freedom party a solid majority of parliament seats.

Next, amend your constitution to emulate our first amendment. We must be free to criticize politicians and their policies, otherwise we will be as Washington said "led dumb, like sheep to the slaughter".

So being "anti-elitist" is now (again) to be a thought-crime in Germany, is it?

Those unelected plutocrats and kleptocratic elitists sure do hate popular votes!

The entire German government should be purged.

The quaint name 'The Federal Agency for Political Education' has a resonance evocative of 'The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda'

Germany would rather avoid the truth than to recognize and deal with it.
The fact that a Ministry of Truth has been created is a step to fascism, which German history has already experienced to the detriment of its own citizens and its neighbors, finally in a war that numbered about 50 million dead.

Yet, Germany seeks refuge in a "Ministry of Truth" that if that government would have been truthful, would never have needed such a ministry.
It seems to me that this newest German substitute for reality has become "Ministry of Truth," when in fact truth be admitted, Merkel and Company have made a terrible mistake and have placed a curse on innocent, peaceful German citizens who were content to live their lives as good Germans living down a war which Germany had ignited in the late 1930's.

But,Germany under Merkel & Co. saw itself as Europe's leader for integrating Islam into Germany's secularism. Germany was far better off when it believed and paid homage to Christianity.

By deserting Christianity, at the same time importing Muslims, the Muslims detected German weakness, because though they would be enemies of Christianity, they would also respect a people with belief in their particular deity....instead of none at all.

First it was Turks, next it became Arabs....Merkel playing with explosives! The question is, is this supposed leader insane? Why would anyone do this to her own "beloved" nation? Was importing Turks and Arabs a possibility of increasing worker power for Germany's industrial ambitions? That collapsed because in the hordes of Muslim migrants, how many among them had been sufficiently schooled to take their places in German production lines...especially when so many are illiterate and must pray five times per day?....That they do know to do. Close tolerance working from a modern production machine they don't know and may never know.

Surely, there is hardly a ready, efficient, work force among them, or was it Germany's lofty idea to financially sustain these people indefinitely, by passing on taxes for them to productive Germans?

No, Merkel is the wrong person at the wrong time, and has encumbered Germany forever, unless it takes positive steps to correct a gross error of immigration.

It would seem that Germany is indeed now emulating George Orwell's 1984. How far they have fallen! Criticizing the government is now verboten, as is criticizing the EU, Islam, govt officials and the media. There's not much Germans can any longer feel free to talk about! A sad descent for a once flourishing democracy. Whether it's fear of the increasing radical Muslim population, fear of Donald Trump's election and what they think it might entail, Germany under Angela Merkel has lost its way. Maybe a new govt. will bring them back to some degree of consciousness.

The dumbest thing about Gerald Hensel is that he doesn't understand that this censorship actually has the opposite effect on voters.

They can smell this even without the government banning Breitbart News. I for one am signing up to Breitbart News purely because of this man.

Of course Germany is slightly different because of it's phobia of anything extreme right, and the government milks this for all it is worth. But if there is anything that will guarantee a growing right wing it is trying no-platform it.

The Left still doesn't get this, even after Brexit and Trump. Very, very slow learners.

Very interesting, and alarming, story. Please keep following developments as this unfolds and reporting them to your readers.

As a student of history and, most recently, a student of the two world wars instigated by Germany, I can't help drawing conclusions about the German people. Since 1945, Germans have seemed willing to accept censorship and limits on their freedoms to avoid being associated with the Nazis and the Holocaust, and to accept what must be recognized as the "child" of Russian communist totalitarianism, the EU. So encouraged by the success of the EU, radicals in the US have tried hard to emulate the cowering before authority that has become the posture of Leftists in every EU country, much to the dismay of Americans who hold the US Constitution as near-sacred. Europe has been a debased continent, politically and morally for so long that many Europeans had nothing to lose. Not so the US, and the success of Donald Trump is an expression of the determination of Americans to never become like Europe. I am encouraged to learn that Germany is experiencing a resurgence of freedom, in the form of resistance to Merkel and others who have flooded Europe with millions of refugees. As Islamic terror and Islamic crime spirals higher, the millions of Europeans being harmed will make themselves known in powerful ways. In America, we have quite enough cars and don't need Mercedes. We can do nicely without your beer and other products,if idiotic boycotts make that necessary. We now have a President who intends to help us avoid becoming like Europe. Praise God for that!

I never thought I would see this in Germany again.
Looks like Germany is headed back to 1933.
It doesn't matter who the politicians are, they just
do not want to lose their money and power.
Does Merkel want her life to go back to behind the
Iron Curtin ???

We read about a guy like this Hensel specimen who brought annihilation to the peoples of Europe in 1939. Back then it was the German bully boys with fat white fingers who broke the bodies of dissidents, Jews and other assorted undesirables. This time it's the acolytes of this specimen whose fat white fingers pound the keys of a computer to bring about the same nightmare scenario.

The demented leadership of an old East German woman is bringing about the unravelling of this continent by importing millions from a backward 3rd world, yet to object to this makes us monsters in the twilight world she and her cohorts inhabit. Over the past few years I firmly believed Missus Merkel should have been voted out of office, now I think she should be removed for mental instability. We in Europe cannot go through another 1939, another mad German leader or another world war simply because we fear removing this chancellor from her post. If we do nothing then we are repeating our past, and our past is catching up with us.

After WWI Germany was crippled by the highly misdirected and punitive Versailles Treaty, reparations and the stranglehold on its economy. This allowed the rise of the communists who by their very existence created the right and the ultimate expression in Nazism and WWII. The stakes are higher now, the mechanism slightly different. Communism thrives in an environment of chaos, and what better chaos in the 21st century than to use Islam as the creator of chaos. The horrific parallels raise their ugly heads:the books of hatred in Mein Kampf and the Koran, similar ideologies of hatred and control, a low premium set on the value of life, and a goal of world domination.

There is a glaring and frightening difference. Nazism arose in the 20th century out of Western Civilization. Islam is of another culture and for 1,400 years has been in conflict with Western civilization. With the exception of Neo-Nazi wannabes, Nazism was firmly repressed and subdued after WWII. The word, Nazi, has become a term of derision and vilification fecklessly used by both ends of the political spectrum as a weapon against the other. No one wants to be called a Nazi, which is a good sign. And in reality the person so labeled is far from being a Nazi, both in thought and action, although we see the left hard at it with Trump. [In reality, our new President is focused on improving the economy. He is a proven and experienced expert. He seeks to benefit all. An improved economy will benefit all. The accusation is foolish and unintelligent. Enough of digression.]

Islam is an ideology, dubiously labeled as a religion, for one single reason: all other religions seek positive and higher principles of love for humanity. This characteristic is totally absent in Islam. Muslims who do find positive spirituality in Islam do so, not because of what is written in their scriptures, but because of the innate goodness of man seeking a benevolent God.

Islam is an ideology with no distinction between state and religion. Is is fascistic. Islam is set on a path of world domination through practices no different than Nazism. The small percentage of Muslims that actually seek world domination may correctly be labeled as Islamofascists. Indeed, Hither lamented that the west had unfortunately inherited "weak-kneed" Christianity instead of Islam which was much more in tune with his thinking.

The problem we now encounter in the 21st century is glaringly before us with the potential in this atomic age of becoming a holocaust of such proportions as to bring us into the dark ages for perhaps 1,000's of years -- if we survive at all. These are terrible, unthinkable stakes, but they are very real.

Coming full circle, we can not allow the Gerald Hensels or the Andrea Merkels to silence freedom of speech in Europe. The lamentable prosecution and conviction in The Hague of Geert Wilders of the Netherlands for asking if there should be "more or fewer" Moroccan immigrants allowed into his country is a travesty beyond the comprehension of reason and sanity. It is no secret, which the leftist elites would like to control, that Islamic immigration has caused considerable civil unrest in Europe. Yes there are good and decent Muslims, and prayerfully they are the majority, and prayerfully they will remain the majority in the future and bring much needed Reformation and Enlightenment to Islam.

To do this there must be dialogue, and those current European voices of repression and those Imams and other political leaders seeking world domination in the name of Islam must be shouted down and must be exposed for their perfidy and betrayal of humanity.

What are our chances of success? History does not favor us. Our genetic makeup does not favor us. That which does favor us in this war-of-all-wars-that-might-be is communication and awareness. First, we must solve the divide in our own country, and stop this foolishness of pretended hurts and injustice as most recently demonstrated. Unlike Europe and most other geographic locales in the world, we do have and we probably will continue to have those precious First Amendment rights. Now is the time to use them, continually and forcefully and truthfully.

To forgive is divine; however, that does not mean we should forget the past and the carnage that controlling the press and silencing dissent has created. As we all know, the first responsibility of a free press is to keep the government honest. What the elite is doing by attempting to silence dissent, or free expression, is to control the people. Until recently, I believe there was a parallel in American politics. However, with the recent election in the United States the populist movement has won and I sincerely hope that it will also win out in Europe. "IF YOU DON'T LEARN FROM HISTORY YOU ARE BOUND TO REPEAT IT."

We can only hope that there are enough Germans with sufficient moral fiber to throw Merkel & Friends out in the coming election.

If such a fortuitous event does occur we can be sure that there will be an infestation of the Sore Loser Syndrome as is happening now in the USA.

Who are the real Nazis here? This article sounds like info from the 1930s, censorship of the press. Will all government employees wear brown shirts next? I have read that many copies of Mein Kampf have recently been sold in Germany. Maybe purchased by the government as required reading for government employees? This is an interesting method to insure Merkel's election this fall. Good luck Germany, you will need it.

Meanwhile in the United States, General Mills has fired their CMO who joined with their uber Progressive ad agencies to promote a PC culture. It turns out the Board of Directors and CEO at General Mills had other designs; selling more product irregardless of politics.

Having worked inside those agencies, the noise from the echo chamber is deafening. For brands to follow them over the cliff is idiocy.

Somehow these agencies have forgotten they're 'agents' and not the brand. Anger half of Mercedes Benz buyers and miss a quarter or two in earnings, and you can bet these 'agents' will be hoping Planned Parenthood is need of some agency work...after they get fired by MB.

This isn't a question of if they get fired...merely when.

When people drink soda pop, eat cereal, buy a car, dine out, go to a movie..they're consumers..plain and simple. Push politics in their face (outside of Whole Foods where it's tolerated) and people will push back.

Very well done.

The question is whether German and European democracy is robust enough to withstand this kind of battle.

Historically, the answer was NO.

At least now there is not a person in the White House encouraging the worst excesses of political correctness.

It would seem that Germany and its elites by downgrading free speech appear to be heading towards 1930 - 1940's Nazism. What next under Merkel's leadership, Brown shirt's in the streets and crosses painted on shop windows. Christian democrats my arse.

The author posits that, "As in communist dictatorships, the more obvious the failings of the government, the more aggressively the establishment attacks those who speak out about them."

ALL "isms" on the left, to one degree or another, reject basic aspects of both human nature and, operative principles of the external reality within which we all exist. This makes these ideologies unsustainable. Thus the need for coercion. Ergo, all socialistic systems must gradually categorize ALL thought, speech and behavior as either forbidden or mandatory.

Germany had, finally, enough of its "Peaceful Existence". It is time, after more than seventy years of restraint, to go back to the "good times" of the thirties and forties and do what the Germans "do best". There is only so much "civility" the Germans can stand... As for the remaining Jews --- time to leave Germany Is NOW. As for the German people, you are kidding yourselves if you think that the Muslims will leave you in peace. If you do not convert to Islam you are in for a real blood bath. Thank you Stefan Frank and Gatestone.

Germany has bent over backwards since 1945 to avoid appearing antisemitic, but to target Breitbart is a reversal of that policy. Could it be that the wrong ox is being gored? More of the hypocrisy that is the leftist progressives.

The propaganda machine in full motion! Merkel is determined to stay in power at all costs, even if it puts the German people in danger. After all, she has security! But shame on the media to come out and endorse her dictatorial methods of silencing any opposition. Make no mistake, that is exactly what this is all about, dictatorship! 70 plus years has taught Germany nothing so it seems, the people are still vulnerable and easily manipulated by corrupt politicians who use the media to hide the truth of what is going on in the country. Shame on those companies who don't have the courage to speak out and decide to give in to the fear of threats from Muslims. Shame on them for acting in their own interests and not that of their people and country. Shame on them for not questioning the right of Frau Merkel's government to impose restrictions on them. Shame on them for rolling over even though they know what some of the Muslims have done to their fellow countrymen!
It looks as though the same line of deceit will be rolled out across the country to ensure that Merkel has her way and will never need to admit to being wrong about immigrants flooding into Germany. She keeps saying that Germany will manage, be able to cope, but she seriously underestimates the Muslims and their goal to eventually take control. At present, all those participating in Frau Merkel's great scheme are betraying their own people. They will probably be the first to suffer in the future, but now it's the people who are putting up with being robbed raped and killed by Muslim immigrants.
Shame on Merkel and all who support her crazy scheme. If she is elected again, then Germany will be lost to Muslim control within 10 years! The media should be reporting the truth in all its entirety, and not just what the government want the people to know, that can be interpreted as treason!

I do hope Germany will dump Merkel and her like at the next elections. Will it be too late for the country to slam its doors on the unwanted immigrants ?

Yep, yours is my impression, too. The nearer the date of the German election comes, supposedly the 24th of September, the more established German politicians and media representatives struggle for silence among their opponents via the impulse to gain control over the media, perhaps overestimating the thought that sedating the voters instead of keeping them informed would make them better voters, and underestimating the fact that generating an atmosphere of dullness is not a positive publicity for a government, either. Of course, this remains to be settled, but while criticism of dirty tricks in foreign elections is already rather commonplace in my country, similar or even worse developments are sadly well under way, like blackmailing media via putting their advertisers under pressure. The second strategy is to spread an atmosphere of righteousness only around voices from the governing coalition, which is dangerous; for the longer it is accompanied by political helplessness in a rapidly changing environment, it could as well have the opposite effect. So the self-contented, the self-righteous, and the self-correct have already put themselves into a position of mere defense, generating even more dissatisfaction.