Böhmermann warns in “New York Times” video before right pressure in Germany

“Good afternoon from Germany, the country, which, according to Elon Musk, has to be saved”, the satirist welcomes the American audience in English with a wide German accent.

The Germans had “lost one or two world wars”, but at least became a “master coping master”. What you can book as a victory.

To live in Germany, to be constantly confronted with your own past, “full of memorials” in a country, if one should forget, never forget.

Then Böhmermann introduces the AfD, explains that the party will probably get the second most voices in the upcoming Bundestag election. And shows Björn Höcke, who “demanded a reminder -political change by 180 degrees in 2017”.

In the style of his ZDF show “ZDF Magazin Royale”, Böhmermann continues with irony and joke recorders: that could sound a bit “Hitleresque”. “Should the world worry about a great German fascist comeback? Yes, but hello, and really. “

To justify it, he briefly gave the development of the AfD since its foundation in 2013, to Alexander Gauland’s “Vogelschiss” gestation to one of the low points of Alice Weidel’s interview with Elon Musk: “The greatest success after this terrible era”, Weidel had opposite in January Musk claims “it was to label Adolf Hitler as right and conservatively. He was exactly the opposite. He was a communist, socialist type. “

So that is, the 180-degree turn, said Böhmermann, in order to explain the next important term to the Americans with which the German mentality could be better understood: “forgetting in history”. Specifically: the ability to suppress our past despite all the memorials because everything else is simply too exhausting.

He mentions Konrad Adenauer as an example of the long tradition of this ability and shows an interview excerpt in which the then Federal Chancellor explains in 1952 why he signed the reparation agreement with Israel: “The power of the Jews, especially today, especially in America, Shouldn’t be overestimated. And so I put my very power to bring about reconciliation between the Jewish and the German people. ”

In the meantime, the Nazis have never completely disappeared in Germany, explains the satirist using the example of the NSU.

“Why do we Germans play the collective sympathy for the extreme right so much?” He asks and replies: “Partly because there is a discrepancy between the collective in Germany and remind you of personal guilt.”

You publicly confess to the “Never again!” While you close your eyes to the crimes in your own families. And then tells of his own grandfather, who was a cook at the Waffen-SS.

The Germans would have “never again!” swore that it has become a hollow phrase. That is why Höcke’s call to reversal now feels also hollow. In this room, the AfD can largely act without contradiction. Just like Elon Musk show a Hitler salute and at the same time claiming not to be a Nazi.

Böhmermann concludes ironically: “The AfD is not the new Nazi party. They just want to make germany great again. “