Happy German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), 3 October, 2025. It has been 35 years since Germany reunited. 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #germany #deutschland #allemand #alemania #германия #ドイツ #germanunityday #tagderdeutscheneinheit #germanreunification #3october #october3 #3rdoctober #october3rd #bdr #ddr #westgermany #eastgermany #bundesrepublikdeutschland #deutschedemokratischerepublik #deutscheeinheit #unityday #nationalday #europe #europa #unity #unification #reunification
@mutanthumb But don't US states sometimes drift to the other party?
The effects visible in these maps have been coined by #Germany being divided from 1949 to 1990 and the difference stayed this way for the last 35 years. I truly believe we are one nation but our history and the social factors shown are much different.
Yes, hand-portable #nukes do exist.
Granted, these compact nukes are in the 20+kg range cuz one doesn't want the person carrying to quickly die from radiation poisoning nor addicentially cause a nuclear detonation when dropped on the floor.
Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2pqf
"For the best part of three years, Friedrich Karl Vialon was one of the archetypal 'writing-desk murderers' who kept the bureaucratic machinery of the Holocaust ticking over.
Deployed to Nazi-occupied Riga in 1942, his job was to strip the Baltic states of every asset his staff could lay their hands on: jewellery, boots, winter coats, musical instruments, de facto slaves and gold fillings stripped from the mouths of executed Jews, one of which was reimplanted into the mouth of one of his secretaries.
Vialon performed this task with grim thoroughness, raising the number of Jewish forced labourers in the region from 6,000 to 13,800 and personally supervising the confiscation of belongings at house raids and the nearby SS concentration camp at Salaspils.
Yet he paid no price for these crimes. Quite the contrary: only five years after the end of the war he was appointed to head the budget department at the West German finance ministry.
Three years later Konrad Adenauer, the chancellor, put Vialon in charge of the finance and economics unit in his own office. Vialon retired in 1966 with a plump civil-service pension and died in early 1990, five months after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The first systematic analysis of the early West German chancellery’s personnel files, conducted by the Stuttgart University historian Gunnar Take, shows that stories like Vialon’s were so common as to be almost normal in the 1950s and 1960s.
He found that out of the 107 senior officials in the chancellery between 1949 and 1970, 57 were too young to have occupied positions of any influence under the Nazi dictatorship.
Of the remaining 50, 20 had held mid or high-ranking posts in the Third Reich, ranging from Wehrmacht and Gestapo officers to powerful administrative jobs or deployments to oversee occupied territory. Most of these individuals, like Vialon, had also been members of the Nazi party."
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/files-nazis-postwar-germany-n7cf7qw7h
I'm not sure how accurate that podcast is?
But it seems it wasn't just Mossad hunting ex Nazis.
Eichmann was much higher rankings during the war, but this guy was in the German government?
Also, they were a PFLP ally, they were taking hostages for Palestine before
I'm. uncomfortable with the Israeli style language he's using, e.g. "eliminated" instead of killed.
Hans Martin Schligher?
I'll check the text
13 October 1977, was a PFLP hijacking at the same time as this.
Kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Hanns_Martin_Schleyer
cc @kmpiw@infosec.exchange @kmpiw@kolektiva.social
#HannsMartinSchleyer#RAF #Nazis #RedArmyFaction #PFLP #WestGermany #NaziSS #Nazis
Scott Ritter: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/15/scott-ritter-the-birth-of-the-german-fourth-reich/
After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it. Germany today has dangerously embarked on a rearmament campaign to prepare for a supposed Russian threat. New Chancellor…
#Politics #Commentary #Europe #France #Germany #History #Militarism #Nato #SovietUnion #U.s. #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #WarCrimes #AdolfHitler #Bundeswehr #ColdWar #ErwinRommell #FourthReich #FranzHalder #GeneralDwightD.Eisenhower #GeneralHansSpeidel #HimmerodAgreement #JohnMccloy #NaziGermany #NurembergTribunals #PresidentHarryTruman #SchnezTruppe #ScottRitter #ThirdReich #WaffenSs #Wehrmacht #WestGermany #WilliamJ.Donovan #WinstonChurchill #WorldWarIi
Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)
May
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World Dracula Day
Siring the mortals. DP: Robby Müller.
A vampire for World Dracula Day
This deeply political, unpleasant interpretation of Stoker's Dracula can not not be seen against the backdrop of political movements like the #RAF and West-Germany's youth revolting against the failed #Denazification that the country underwent under supervision of the Allied occupying forces.
Note the usage of colour and grouping of people; Klaus Mann's Mephisto (1981) borrowed quite a few visuals from Jonathan.
#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WorldDraculaDay #HansWGeissendörfer #BramStoker #JürgenJung #HansDieterJendreyko #PaulAlbertKrumm #RolandKovac #RobbyMüller #vampires #horror #politics #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #1970s ★★★½
The 1974 #BerlinMarathon, known as the Berlin Volksmarathon, was the first running of the annual marathon race held in Berlin, #WestGermany, held on 13 October. Two West Germans won the competitions, with #GünterHallas taking the men's race in 2:44:53 hours and #JuttaVonHaase finishing first among women with 3:22:01. A total of 244 runners finished the race, comprising 234 men and 10 women.
@big_louse Peter Thiel & his ilks are very powerful, dangerous white-supremacists pricks. The above great video demonstrate it.
#PeterTheil #nazis #WestGermany #German #fascist #WhiteSupremacist #Colonialism #SouthAfrica #apartheid #SpaceColonization #GawkerLawsuit #TheDiversityMyth #BildrbergGroup
#GayInc but #AntiDEI #BigData #FBI #PayPalMafia #TechWeaponization #GlobalMacro #EdgeFund #AI #BoycottUSA : #PayPal #ClearviewAI #PalantirTechnologies #BreakoutLabs #ValarVentures, #MithrilCapital #LembasLLC #RivendellLLC #ArdaCapital #Facebook #FoundersFund #YCombinator
Camouflage, Voices & Images, 1988 on Atlantic
Camouflage were a synth-pop trio from Bietigheim-Bissingen in West Germany (near Stuttgart). Voices & Images was their debut album and included “The Great Commandment” which was a hit in Germany and broke through to the US.
My copy via Pitchfork Records in Concord NH, has the gold promo stamp and a hype sticker listing the singles.
#1980s #1988 #Camouflage #ConcordNH #PitchforkRecords #Promo #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WestGermany
Oscar Peterson Trio, 1961 Cologne Gürzenich Concert Hall, 2011 on Jazzline
Part of a series of Jazzline releases called WDR The Cologne Broadcasts, which collects concerts recorded by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (German public radio), including this 1961 appearance of the classic Oscar Peterson Trio with Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown.
Recorded at the Gürzenich on April 11th, 1961 by an unkown recording engineer and mastered by Thomas Sehringer for release in 2011 on 180g vinyl. As with most (all?) Jazzline recordings in the WDR series, liner notes in German and English.
They fill out side two of the second LP with songs from other Jazzline releases: John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, and Modern Jazz Quartet recordings from 1960 and 1959 in West German cities. (Better than having an etching of the Gürzenrich or something on the fourth side).
Great sounding concert – wonderful versions of “My Funny Valentine” and “Con Alma” in particular.
My copy via private sale.
#1960s #1961 #2011 #Cologne #EdThigpen #jazz #Jazzline #OscarPeterson #OscarPetersonTrio #RayBrown #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WDROriginalMasters #WestGermany #WestdeutscherRundfunk
there is a significant difference in approval of #farright #afd between #eastgermany and #westgermany; this went so far as that afd was leading only but in every former #gdr state
#btw25 #wahl #fckafd #ddr #gdr #election #meme #mamema #memes #germany #deutschland #grundgesetz #afdverbot #sachsen #thuringen #mecklenburg #brandenburg #sachenanhalt
I feel I have been neglecting #mastodon of late, so here is a #photo of the #spiderman that my dad painted in my bedroom back in #1980. We had just returned from #WestGermany the first time I had been out of the country. I took this photo a couple of years ago on the day we sold the house. I hope it is still there.
