#german imperialism

[thoughtportal]

Monkey pox and racism

[redbards]

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After Berlin police forced out the Palestine Congress on Friday, many participants went down to a protest camp in front of the Bundestag (federal parliament). The state's violent repression continues. In the name of fighting anti-semitism the police punched, choked and tear gassed Jewish people and others standing up against Germany's ongoing support to a genocidal war.

[empress-alexandra]

Princess Alix of Hesse (later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia) with her sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1890.

[fatherentropy]

Xelzaz's line on Maormer made me chuckle because... y'know. Yorick. Also been rocking a hood w/ his usual face mask so you can't see shit on his head so he could easily pass for whatever which is fun for situations like this??? idk Anyway!!

Playable Maormer w/o needing mods when (never, I know but shh)

I might be the only person that jokingly threatens people I'm comfortable with but y'know. Never said I was good with people. Said the opposite actually lmao

Also I keep drawing Yorick as super aggro but I think that's just the Nebarra effect because he's a space cadet tbh.

was gonna have Xel and Lucifer say something at the end here but I... forgot what but also not happy with these faces because blah blah argonian hard blah. Same thing I'm always complaining about lmao

Judging

anyway, silly nonsense that's probably funnier in my head but now it's OUT of my head and that's what's really more important tbh. That all of you have to be inflicted with it is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[lichozestudni]

🇨🇿 rn:

[illustratus]

Imperial German naval ensign (1903-1921)

[herprivateswe]

A skeleton, its arm across its neck, of a dead German soldier outside a dugout near Beaumont Hamel, November 1916.

[ltwilliammowett]

Sewing Kit (Housewife) of a Sailor (His name was Günther) of the Imperial German Navy, the Kaiserliche Marine (1871 -1919)

[historynerdj2]

History memes #24

This is a historic anecdote, as the Swiss army placed a high importance on marksmanship. Whether or not this is true, either way it’s funny and interesting

[deutschland-im-krieg]

The crew of a German UC-1 class submarine on deck. Introduced in 1915, the submarines of this class were employed mainly on minelaying duties and carried up to twelve mines. German submarines sank 1,845,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping between February and April 1917

[redbards]

Palestine Conference in Berlin impeded by police - Here's what happened

[translated from Perspektive Online, 14. April 2024]

The so-called "Palestine Congress", at which the role of Germany in the ongoing Gaza war would be discussed, was harassed and made impossible by the Berlin police shortly after it began. For weeks, bourgeois German press and politicians stirred up a smear campaign.

On Friday, April 12, after just a few hours and only one full speech, the event scheduled for the whole weekend was ended and banned by the police under enormous repression. The "Palestine Congress" was supported and organized by a broad alliance of left-wing and Palestine solidarity groups.

Against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza and the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, the aim was to discuss the legal, humanitarian and political context of the situation in Palestine and Israel and, in particular, the German state's support for the Israeli war. The congress was held under the slogan "Palestine accuses" - "accused" was the German state.

Since the mobilization and ticket sales for the three-day event began, a wave of hostility, racism and even outright incitement has poured over the organizers and their environment. There was talk of a "hate congress" and that the "anti-Semites of the world" wanted to gather in Berlin. As a result, the congress with lectures and workshops had its venues cancelled several times after pressure was exerted on the organizers. As the culmination of the repression in the run-up to the event, a ban on the congress was demanded.

Start of the event - Repression comes to a head

On Friday morning, a few hours before the start of the congress, a press conference was convened. Among other things, the goals and demands of the organizers were stated: A ceasefire in the current Gaza war, humanitarian aid as well as the opening of the border and a stop to German arms deliveries to Israel.

The first provocations already took place outside the press conference rooms. A small pro-Israeli counter-demonstration gathered on a street corner. The police presence was enormous. Some journalists from the media outlets, that had previously been actively involved in the smear campaign against the congress, turned up and demanded entry to the press conference. However, there was only limited space in the small rooms.

An "alliance against anti-Semitic terror" jointly opposed the event. In a statement from the critics they claimed that glorification of terror and calls for the destruction of Israel were to be expected. The alliance is backed by various organizations such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation as well as politicians from the FDP, SPD, Greens, CDU/CSU and Left Party.

Repression at the venue

The congress was due to begin at 2 p.m. in an office building in Berlin-Tempelhof. Here, too, the police were on site in advance with dozens of police vans. Around 800 tickets had been sold for the congress and participants began to gather in front of the venue. However, the police quickly decided, under various pretexts, that only around 250 people would be allowed into the room.

When the congress started delayed by several hours, there were more police officers than participants in the room, according to eyewitnesses. The police unilaterally defined the waiting ticket holders in front of the building as an unregistered assembly and began to read out instructions and directly threaten to evict them. In the end, the assembly was registered and people started shouting Palestine solidarity slogans out of necessity, but also out of conviction. The police refused to negotiate and banned all other people from entering the event.

The congress itself then also fell victim to state repression: the police used the pretext of potential "incitement of the people" as early as the second item on the program to ban the entire congress. The rooms were stormed, the electricity was cut off and arrests were made.

The reason was a stream with the Palestinian academic Salman Abu Sittah. The German government banned several guest speakers from entering the country. The politician Yannis Varoufakis, the surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitteh, who is active in Gaza, and the well-known journalist Ali Abunimeh also faced entry bans.

"They take our rooms, we take the streets".

The congress was subsequently canceled by the organizers. It was impossible to hold a congress under these conditions. Instead, a demonstration through the center of Berlin was called for Saturday afternoon. The slogan was: "They take our rooms, we take the streets".

The protest camp in front of the Bundestag also received a massive influx of people as a result of the events. People from different backgrounds have been camping there for several days against Germany's complicity in the Gaza war on the side of Israel. The protesters spoke of a "error by the police" and a historic "Day 1 after the Palestine Congress". How the resistance will now develop remains to be seen. There will probably not be another congress.

[empress-alexandra]

Princesses Alix (later Empress Alexandra of Russia) and Irene (Princess Henry of Prussia) of Hesse, 1888.

[vikkicomics]

Anniversary of the fall of Königsberg. >Re image 2: POV, you just woke up. The anniversary was actually April 9th, but Tuesdays are so chaotic for me I didn't get around to posting. Now would be a good time for you to go and research the history of the city and it's destruction. The subject of Königsberg should not be used to stoke division, it is the tragic, shared legacy of many European peoples, may we hold hands and morn losses on all sides.

Description of Image 1: Three Prussian Officer Cadets and a junior Lieutenant gather outside of Königsberg Castle, wearing walking out dress, in April 1908. Characters are from my pre-wwi Prussian Officer Cadet drama, Moth. Their names from left to right: Vincent Odinkirk, Leon von Zelewski, Siegfried Isenstein, Gottlieb Witt. Description of Image 2: The same view of the castle, but in April 1945. Three crosses represent the deaths of the comrades in the first image. A Soviet has crawled out from a burning tank and is screaming to be put out of his misery. The Script of Moth, to which these Illustrations relate, does not continue beyond the 1920's. And so, this is likely to be my first and last piece of wwii art. The two images are 37 years and 2 world wars apart, but the castle and the surviving German officer, are meant to lend permanence to the composition. This is the destruction of his home.

[antiwaradvocates]

1973 World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin

[illustratus]

[herprivateswe]

A smiling German POW with some pets, mostly rabbits, in camp at Dorchester.