Bundestag speeches and other statements of the Alternative für Deutschland translated into English. This blog is not affiliated with the AfD and translations of Bundestag speeches here presented are not authorized by the German Bundestag. – Todd Martin, Ottoville, Ohio, U.S.A.
German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/165, pp. 21235-21237. Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. The Bologna process is, in the essentials, the attempt of an all-European unification, standardization and bureaucratization of higher education, thus the exact opposite of the variety and freedom which you always carry before you like a monstrance. Kai Gehring (Greens): You’ve already said that …
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/118, pp. 14571-14572. Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. Who comes forward as Germany’s “rupture squad” [Abbruchkommando] – I very gladly overtake your term, Herr Scholz, for it perfectly fits this Federal government – needs obviously to make a high expenditure on propaganda. At the so-called green culture conference, Culture State Minister Claudia …
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/72, pp. 8421-8422. Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. The Holodomor – Ukrainian for “mass murder by starvation” – is one of the 20th Century’s greatest crimes against humanity. Lenin in 1922 had already announced it: We will even use terror, including economic terror. – Which Stalin then executed in incomprehensible brutality. The …
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/21, p. 1548. Frau President. Valued members. Right honorable members of the inquest commission. “There is never a document of culture without there being at the same time one of barbarism.” This sentence of Walter Benjamin came to me in the sense of preparing for today’s debate on the reappraisal [Aufarbeitung] of …
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/224, pp. 28499-28500. Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen. Patriotism, that is love of fatherland, was for me invariably vomit. I knew not what to make of Germany and do not know to this day. Robert Habeck, of the Greens, a party which in all seriousness wants to install the Chancellor in Germany. …
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German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/196, pp. 24773-24774. Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen. Anti-racism is one grievance to which I stand opposed. No other judgment can be arrived at if one reads the debate pursued here today and the utterly hysterical and in any case hypocritical bills of the Greens and the Linke. You wish to attain …
German Bundestag, September 30, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/179, pp. 22521-22522. Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen. Corona times are not only bad times for culture, but also apparently bad times for the truth. Timon Gremmels (SPD): You are stumped by the truth! Frau State Secretary for Culture Grütters, your press release of last Wednesday on the …
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Marc Jongen German War Victims Memorial German Bundestag, May 14, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/160, pp. 19942-19943 [Marc Jongen is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the western German state of Baden-Württemberg. He is a philosophy professor. He here presents an AfD motion (Drucksache 19/19156) proposing the creation of a memorial dedicated to the German victims …
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