His excuse for why his grandfather worked with the Nazis:
Prince Georg says his great-grandfather may have been wearing a swastika, but his primary motivation was to return the monarchy to power -- and he believed Hitler could make that happen.
He just wanted the monarchy to be restored. That is some argument.
Oh yeah, I only helped the Nazis slaughter all these people because I wanted my status to be restored.
Sometimes I don't know if these people actually listen to what they are saying. :stalin-shining:
Some excerpts from the article:
In a New York newspaper column published in 1933, Wilhelm praised Hitler's "clear-sighted and energetic leadership" and blamed communists and Jews for Germany's tattered reputation.
This new evidence was unearthed by Stephan Malinowski, a historian at the University of Edinburgh whose research has concluded that the Crown Prince significantly contributed to the Nazi regime. Malinowski, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is one of four historians commissioned by the government and Prince Georg's family to investigate the relationship between Wilhelm and the Nazis.
CNN interviewed five additional historians for this story, four of whom now side with Malinowski, though most also agreed that neither side's case is iron-clad. Among them is John Rohl, who said that the Crown Prince had once bragged "that he had actually transposed 2 million votes to Hitler," and Stephanie Middendorf, who argues that he helped make the Nazis more palatable to the upper-class elites he rubbed shoulders with.
It's fucked up that they pay repartions at all. The government is just handing out public funds to people, literally for no other reason than that their ancestors were nobles who sat around oppressing the poor for centuries. Wtf.
The most fucked up reparations were the ones the US government paid to its capitalists for the capital/factories they lost that was allocated in Nazi Germany.
Challenge: Can anyone find out a more fucked up reparations then this?
That's what I got from the article.
1994: Reclaiming what was Lost
German Parliament makes law allowing Germans to reclaim property lost in Soviet occupation of East Germany. Hohenzollerns begin legal proceedings
Imagine being such a fucking disgrace of a country that you have to hear a fucking failson whining bullshit instead of straight up killing him for his anti-democracy sentiments
Fucking Christ. So while people whine about how much money Germany's wasting on refugees, there's apparently enough money to give to this scumbag unless historians dig up one specific bad thing his family did out of the thousands of bad things his family did.
May I direct your attention to this fun Germany fact:
In Germany, a country with a population of 83 million, almost 3 million children or almost a quarter of everyone below the age of 18 are growing up in poverty.
sourceLook I've accepted that Americans will not stop making "Anastasia survives" movies/books in my lifetime, but how bout we compromise and the plot becomes "Anastasia survives and her descendent teams up with this German scumbag to demand reparations while a heroic team of historians try to explain to everyone that that's a dumb idea"
You know what's great about being an American? I hear that number and I'm like, wow, ONLY 25%?
"Especially when it comes to spending free time and social participation, there is a strong undersupply. According to the analysis, two thirds of poor children cannot even go on vacation with their families for a week a year. For many, there is not enough money to go to the cinema, concert or dinner once a month."
It's also interesting what counts as poverty. E.g. if the whole family can't go on vacation together for a week a year. I feel like Americans seem to take very little time off in general.
Oh my god that broke my fucking brain, a week of vacation per year in the US is like a goddamn luxury.
I guess we do operate on different levels of poverty, although the parties here do try everything to get to your standards, especially the SocDems who are responsible for this means-tested to death social system we got now.
You guys would have to cut your vacations down to like a tenth of what they are now
Babylon Berlin has some really great moments and really terrible moments, but actually does a decent job portraying how the conservative monarchists worked to bring the Nazis to power.
"He helped the nazis, but only to advance his own goals!" Wow we've really set a low bar for apologia these days, haven't we?
It's pretty insane that we've reached such an insane degree of anti-Marxism that historical materialism has been inverted and having a material reason for doing something means you didn't really mean it.
I mean by neoliberal ethics, he did nothing wrong. He acted out of rational self interest, the purest motive of all.
I was trying to come up with a comparison to illustrate how fucked this is, but there's literally nothing more galling than giving public funds to the grandchildren of the anti-liberal conservatives who basically created the Third Reich because they were trying to abolish Weimar parliamentarism by any means necessary.
The people who did the legal and philosophical groundwork for the Nazis, who called themselves "Conservative Revolution"(think about that - what a ridiculous term), clearly are some of the most arrogant, self-serving scum the earth has seen.
