Beyond the Wall: Part 1 - The Rise of Germany's Far Right | People & Power

Last November, celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall were overshadowed by a palpable sense of unease in parts of Europe.
To be sure, the events of those weeks through late 1989 and beyond were hugely significant - iconic moments in history that came to symbolise the end of the Cold War and the decades of nuclear-tipped standoff between West and East.
Many Europeans felt that things could never be the same again, that their continent had seen the back of communist totalitarianism and repression and that a new age of peace and prosperity and democracy beckoned.
But in the years since, some of those dreams have turned sour amid rising xenophobia and nationalism in nations that once lay behind the Iron Curtain. Heady enthusiasm has been replaced by growing uncertainty, the world has somehow become darker and more menacing than many ever believed it would be. Things, in other words, didn't quite turn out as the optimists expected.
There are myriad reasons for this - and of course, many of them are linked to the wider global political and economic concerns that have emerged over the last 30 years - but at least some of what troubles the continent now can be traced back to the scars left by the Cold War and the way countries handled the transition away from the authoritarianism that suffocated parts of Eastern Europe for so long.
For this two-part special report, People & Power sent filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna to find out more.
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[@Imbrokeaswell]

They are normal indigenous people. Everyone in every land reacts the same to being invaded by foreigners.

[@yomamaballsinmyw]

@@AbdillahibnYusha thats somehow germanys fault

[@aykay6778]

Nah they're just Nazis mofos

[@matthewschonwalder1708]

The reporting is so biased its sickening

[@mine2394]

I respect the Germans. They have every right to protect their country and culture.

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

I live in the US and we need to keep our country and culture. LEGAL immigrants to the US need to assimilate and learn English, and also keep their own traditions.

[@chefrabbaigoldenbergsteins5018]

​@@jimdellavecchia4594😂 yea poor native americans they not with us today after white boy and has black slav took over it with black rock company

[@aykay6778]

​@@jimdellavecchia4594go tell the natives

[@matthewschonwalder1708]

Proud German here and that will always be so.

[@ATHLDN]

lol

[@luapnosboh7421]

Just don't try it again !

[@RichardGange]

So the Stasi where like a Google or Facebook harvesting information. We have the NSA doing the same thing today They will record this comment somewhere.

[@herautvalentin870]

No such thing call democracy in the world

[@nolankossak8200]

I don't see why they paint these new changes as bad lmao there fixing Europe.

[@mine2394]

They must defend Europe against Islam.

[@Tbone1492]

We see this in every Country. Letting large amounts of foreigners in is never a good idea. Democracies need to realize that!

[@seafishinggirl]

they do, but then we dont really have democracy in Europe do we, Certainly not in the UK the media and education system are completly brainwashing the younger generation, I was interogated by police for comments made on facebook. The people are betrayed by all politicians who enact policys not wanted by the electorate such as immigration and a ban on capitol punishment.

[@ObeySilence]

Fun fact: The women interviewed at 1:49 is called Anetta Kahane. She was a former member of the STASI - eastern Germanies special service which committed countless crimes against its citizens.

[@jacpratt8608]

so she knows what she is talking about?

[@putler965]

@@jacpratt8608 Only if the subject is informing on your friends and family.

[@rossib6974]

She is paid servent of West now obviously ! Hitlers Nazies became too after WWII .

[@spuddy4845]

both sides committed crimes

[@ObeySilence]

@@spuddy4845 There was one-party rule in Eastern Germany. There was no such thing as "both sides". The opposition had no spies putting people who disagreed with the system into jail. The STASI was considered the most effective special service in the world at the time. Its crimes are documented.

[@davebolan7282]

Will you do a report on the right wing Taliban?

[@Imbrokeaswell]

They are allowed to defend their land.

[@aykay6778]

Besides Taliban do not care about your colour

[@hiroshi138]

Optional Title: "The Logical Outcome When A Government Prioritizes the Freedom and Rights of Strangers Over Their Own". Too long?

[@pattydaniels4950]

Neo communism as an ideology is rampant throughout the western countries lately. That's something no one seems to be willing to talk about on the telly.

[@ObeySilence]

Lol, what Neo-communism? I bet you are from the US.

[@jimbocrispy6908]

Because the people who make the telly actively support that view. The irony of these stupid ‘revolutionaries’ is that they ARE the establishment.

[@texasray5237]

The "progressive" branch of the US democratic party is essentially Neo-communism. But of course they won't admit it. Fabian communists want to take over through deception, not revolution. They use climate-scam, pandemic-scam, carbon-scam, etc etc etc, anything to make people afraid and willing to sacrifice their rights in exchange for promises of security.

[@jacpratt8608]

dunno about your telly but in my land the higher class of media (they think) regularly bangs on about a thing called "cultural marxism". They abhor it. Not sure what it is. It might be a way of insulting characters, writers, performers etc who haven't paid up so you wont put them down.

[@peterlovie6682]

Let's talk about it now....

[@anubisofearth4018]

I can tell just by the opening that you aren't going to address the 3,000 pound elephant in the room, smh. 😡👌 we outside of europe KNOW what the problem is, smh. I'm from America and have to deal with the same cancer here, smdh.🤢🤮

[@BogushCh]

The blame for what has happened lies more with the West than East. Guenter Grass had published his writings () arguing the former DDR should not automatically be united with the Bundesrepublik; an interim period was absolutely vital. But the then ruling party in Bonn was the CDU and Kohl did everything in his power to speed up 'unification' (of two quite different post-WWII states). Everyone outside Germany applauded blindly, next to no-one knew about the shockingly draconian treatment of the people themselves. Neocapitalism and failure of the political establishment are chiefly responsible for the social & economic breakdown. Besides, neo-fascism/Nazism is almost equally as strong in the West anyway; in the East it just received a massive helping hand from Scheiss Politiek; first from Bonn, now from a totally absurdly re-Hauptstadt-ised Berlin.

[@thorkody1664]

It's utterly bizarre that anyone would try to draw an expected correlation between the Berlin Wall coming down and native East and West Germans mixing with each other (perfectly natural and good) and Germany opening its borders to people that aren't even remotely German or European in any way, shape or form. There should have never been any expectation of this. Germany should be for Germans or at most ethnic Europeans. Period. End of story.

[@keesbuhl6019]

Syrian not remotely European? Europe was actually Syrian princess! Most of our culture like scricpture, mathematics, philosophy, religion, agriculture etc originated from Mesopotamia and the Arab world. May I ask you, what your definition of Europe is? Can there really be something like a "European ethnicity"? No idea what that could be! Looking forward to your answer.

[@jrgzmn3692]

Do you believe German’s are dying off?

[@thorkody1664]

@@jrgzmn3692 little by little. That’s how Satan works.

[@thorkody1664]

@@keesbuhl6019 yes, hijab wearing Muslim olive skinned dark haired people who go back generations in the Middle East are not remotely European. Better than Africans for sure but, give me a break, they aren’t remotely European. Go back and watch old movies from the early 1900s and you’ll quickly see the difference.

[@krtcampbell9007]

@@keesbuhl6019 so there are no jews, Africans are not black chinese are not Asian right.

[@vanPoll]

Anetta Kahane worked for the STASI in her early life way back in the DDR. To portrait her as a moral instance is a horrible joke.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Civil unrest caused by the East/West is a little different from that caused by importing people of a complete different culture

[@thorkody1664]

Jews are much much different than Arabs or Africans. European Jews are European. Arabs and Africans are not. This is not an apples to apples comparison. And, oh, by the way, let's not forget that the reason a lot of Jews are leaving Europe is because of Muslim Arabs/Africans, not because of neo-nazis.

[@leahflower9924]

yes they are called Ashkenazi

[@texasray5237]

European Jews are no more European than the Arabs or Africans or Gypsies who have been born in Europe. Assimilation requires a willingness to abandon one's former culture and embrace the culture of the host nation, and until that happens it doesn't matter how long a population may have lived here in Europe, they are not European.

[@jacpratt8608]

where did you find out about that?

[@kuchojoe500]

You are now the neo nazi's

[@sirfrozsomji3984]

thorkody: "European Jews are European", so you accept that they're not Semite/Afro-Asians.

[@matthewschonwalder1708]

If they don't feel safe then they should leave the country very simple 💯

[@cucumber623]

facebook!! The Stasi's wet dream of the 21st century

[@leahflower9924]

how is youtube different? lol

[@markspaniola2696]

They see what's happening in America and are smart enough to do something about it.

[@PrefectUN]

Cause and effect? Germany isn’t a Islamic culture? It was force fed to them by Colorado Springs! So they went NEO?

[@Retroscoop]

Liberalism and wild capitalism simply isn't the answer for everything as an alternative for an oppressive but at the same time caring communism. Isn't it symbolic that "Ossies" became more and more extreme right under a former Ossie who became chancellor ? That alone shows that things changed in different speeds for the different parts of the population. And for some, not much changed. For many, it became worse than it was before. No wonder lots of people grow angry. Current politicians simply don't manage to come up with solutions to progressively make things better for every German. Or worse, they don't care about it. It's not that there isn't enough funds. Otherwise, why open the doors for 1 million people from faraway countries with a completely different set of values and beliefs ? Again, no wonder many people react over-nationalistically, because "Berlin" tries to push multiculturalism through their throat in stead of helping the "other" Germans. Unfortunately, not wanting to listen to these folks now start to lead to killings. And dark forces are ready to use that anger of "simple" people for their own, dangerous purposes. History keeps on repeating itself, yes, because political leaders keep on making deliberately the same mistakes, thinking history won't, can't repeat itself. While it can. The recent arrests in West Germany show this all to clearly.

[@markordorica4935]

She did right she made a good choice ! 🇩🇪 Democracy ⛅🌌🌌🌌

[@Er1256]

Aljazeera! All said!

[@tanujSE]

It's in the wrong time when private capital is the source all issues

[@johoward2251]

13:47 Sounds like the same lol smh reason the evil Berlin Wall was built

[@hellowaves]

Interesting documentary, there are however 3 sides to every story, yours, mine and the truth. I find this documentary rather interesting, the thing is it is politicians playing games with other peoples lives yet again, irrespective of which side they are on.

[@zerohero9510]

There is nothing like free world. We all answer to someone....

[@marcusmees4625]

No mention of Steve Bannon?

[@terintiaflavius3349]

What does Steve Bannon have to do with long simmering issues? To say it's him, denies the truth of what has been going on. He is a mouth piece but societal issues are not his fault.

[@ritchienegrea5779]

I’m the first one ?? Wow. Time for Europe to rise got to save the good and respect restore normality of life.... no weard stuff. Before all gd things destroyed

[@misterchris4005]

Only way is level russia as the Romans did to Carthage then Russia can never invade any country again. That's if you truly want a lasting peace in europe. If nato can't see that then they have become useless group of old wankers.

[@texasray5237]

Maybe the lignite industry will bounce back now.

[@seafishinggirl]

No way its far too dirty and all the enviros would object

[@joseayala3893]

**Greetings From CHICAGO! ❤️ D NXZ RIGHT!! 🗳 ☑️ 🇺🇸 🌎 🇺🇲 ❤️

[@JAMAICADOCK]

The communists used to call the Berlin Wall the Anti-Fascist Rampart. Given subsequent events since the fall of communism, that moniker now seems rather apt. And sorry blaming communism three decades ago for fascism today, seems like passing the buck. Truth is East Germany is just returning to its niche in capitalism. East Germany was always more conservative and economically poorer than the West. In the 1930s East Germany was solidly in support of the Nazis. The reason East German was so repressive was due to East Germany being full of Nazis. Like Eastern Europe more generally.

[@ReimerGodt]

Not sure, what you are talking about, but East Prussia and western Schleswig-Holstein both had 50% of populace voting for the National-Socialist Worker's Party, though in larger towns and cities that party "just" got 33% of votes.

[@LC-in5or]

Capitalism and communism are the same ideology

[@crazycajun7726]

Sounds similar to china

[@georgelazenby3607]

Well, this comment section is enlightening. For many Germans, it would seem, the lessons of unbridled hatred and exceptionalism have not been learned, if you even attempted to do so in the first place. I guess for many of you, the war never ended. It's also interesting to see the comments of so many people, who display native levels of English language proficiency. I wonder why that is the case. A dose of hatred gets the juices flowing, eh?

[@seafishinggirl]

Just remember and the world needs to know in both world wars it was Britain that declared war on Germany aided by that horrible little degenerate Churchil on the bidding of his Jewish creditors and not the other way around

[@nfjdkdh]

That Jews make us out to the victimizers makes me sick

[@thomasfrenzel6706]

Annetta Kahane the former 'Stasi-Agent' as a "positve" Speaker. 🤔🙄😎

[@rykson161]

Germany’s bar fight !!

[@tracysmith245]

uk does not look anybetter

[@davidbarr2155]

Hitlers back

[@seafishinggirl]

Oh I do hope so, he would have been the savior of Europe, this situation would never have happened under him, can you immagine what would have happened if an arab had raped a young German girl, he would have lost his head and his ashes would have been flushed down the drain. These days the governments of Europe almost encourage the crime, well they certainly cover it up

[@user-vw5sh8kf4g]

Tom peace. May be there is a world

[@suprensa4393]

23:33 Polonia for Poland on a map of USA???

[@gumbogalloschke254]

Either a polish nationalist doesn't know the shape of his country or his message is meant for the US. I'd assume it's a "F off America!"-statement. Why not? Are you American?

[@suprensa4393]

@@gumbogalloschke254 I am and have no problem with someone telling my country to F off, I just don't see the point since I don't see how we threaten Polish national identity.

[@gumbogalloschke254]

@@suprensa4393 Some hate Mexicans, some hate Americans. There are no valid reasons for either. Humans are primitive creatures, we feel threatened, we fight or flee. No rationality involved. If you really wonder why someone in Poland could feel threatened by America tell me, maybe I can explain some things to you.

[@faschwank]

Lincoln Rockwell was right.

[@jamesgreene4811]

The Right is on the Rise 🙂

[@chadwalton8072]

Isn’t Qutar authoritarian

[@islaons7610]

Caroline Ellison

[@davidmarquez2555]

Most racist comments coming from... guess who? lol

[@Imbrokeaswell]

There's no racist comments.

[@0-Templar-0]

Skyrim belongs to the nords!!! Wait... Wrong video

[@leahflower9924]

whats skyrim?

[@0-Templar-0]

@@leahflower9924 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a Fantasy RPG video game developed by Bethesda Softworks and launched in November 2011. The game takes place in the Imperial province of Skyrim, in a fictional continent named Tamriel.

[@leahflower9924]

@@0-Templar-0 sounds like it is as authentically nordic as Frozen 1 and 2

[@seafishinggirl]

@@0-Templar-0 Get a life

[@johnboy14]

Germany is often portrayed as a place of sanity but this clearly indicates that like the rest of us, they have some real problems. You can't abandon an entire region and hope it all works out. You're just turning it over to people with the worst intentions.

[@alexgabriel5423]

The Germans have paid enough! Give them heat in the Winter!! Give them back the money stolen by the European Central Bank! Give the Irish taxpayers their stolen money back!!

[@matthewschonwalder1708]

Oh'yes how dare they say what they feel only the worst of people speak their feelings right?? What a joke

[@feargodalonefeargodalone8533]

Walnut Creek CA. is aka “The Third Reich”. God is Love.

[@kuchojoe500]

Italy still having this kind of problems

[@jamesgreene4811]

How is it a problem 🤔

[@maxb9315]

How lucky we are in Europe to have the eminently reasonable, democratic and growing force of Islam to counter all this.

[@nolankossak8200]

You are the enemy Islam is the most un democratic least reasonable ideologies on the planet.

[@marccarter1350]

The right in power worked out for Germany well in the 1930's :-()

[@sallybags9090]

You mean the "National Socialists?" They were culturally right wing, Economically left wing. Hitler used Alot of political tactics to gain power. One of his biggest tools was Marxism and race based politics. Kinda like what the so called "progressives" use in the US. Except the targets are not Jews. progressives target Whyte people, Whyte straight men to be specific.

[@SammiCPC79]

@@sallybags9090 this is complete revisionist bullsh1t. The alt right trying to blame their polar opposites for their predecessors sickness. They used the word socialist to con working people to vote for them. Or do you honestly think that the 'Democratic Peoples Republic of [north] Korea' is... democratic? You Americans have a very lop sided view of European History. Fascism was and still is the arch nemesis of the left. (socialists, communists, trade unionists, social democrats, democratic socialist etc.) - these were the first groups of people who were rounded up and sent to the camps, alongside Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled and handicapped. Fascism needs an enemy to rally people against - that's where the propensity to believe in ancient racist conspiracy theory comes from. It's the root of their racism. there's a reason the lines of that chilling poem are very specific; First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out for I was not a socialist. Later they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out for I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out for I was not Jewish. Last they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

[@njutoni190]

10:00 shock-u kulturor

[@proudAmerican-rr2mh]

🖐️ ..

[@pattydaniels4950]

It was a lost opportunity of course...

[@affy45]

I thought Germans repented after the holocaust, thats sad that there are people with same ideas still about

[@EagleProductionsMK]

This is Al Jazeera, a Western Propaganda Machine. What do you expect them to tell you?

[@Alpheccca]

I’m not sure what you mean by “people with the same ideas still about”? What ideas exactly are you worried about?

[@drugilbert2447]

Repented lol

[@vicm5272]

Repent because they lost??

[@seafishinggirl]

@@vicm5272 No they were forced to repent by the J**s and communists or they did not get food or a job

[@ReimerGodt]

One could consider the National Socialism the 13th tribe of Karl Marx, the other twelve being Anarchists, Stalinists, Trotzkists, Leninists, Social Democrats, Socialists, etc.

[@carl-johanlarsen3448]

First post!

[@stelladuigan3372]

So many migrants, it was inevitable that things would turn out as they have

[@deanaly2634]

Germany is dying

[@ReimerGodt]

Slave: Bound to a person like a Führer, could be sold anywhere and adopt any citizenship. Serf: Bound to the land and to the title of the landlord, not the person; a patriot could be considered a serf. Free man: Bound to none and nothing, could adopt anything like a citizenship, language, culture, ideology. Could a slave become a Freeman, and could a serf become a Freeman ? Could a married man be a Freeman, could an employee be a Freeman, could an employer be a Freeman, could a soldier up to Fieldmarshall be a Freeman ?

[@doyoulikeduckmeat]

Freedom is a fluid concept. In order to be free to enjoy your idea of freedom you have to let others be free to enjoy theirs. To me freedom is living my life the way I want and leaving you to live yours.

[@namanvats9547]

Deutschland is the best country in the world

[@leahflower9924]

or maybe Austria

[@omeru3626]

No its not.

[@evska2012]

No 😆

[@namanvats9547]

@@evska2012 yeah I guess I was a lil bit to drunk

[@seafishinggirl]

Well it used to be until 1945

[@finding-my-trueself704]

This is still going on in USA! It’s called gangstalking

[@drutalero2962]

I'm third!!

[@markordorica4935]

Resurrection is coming on both sides , 🌤️🌌👀👀🌌

[@martavanello984]

Adolf Fartyler

[@matthewschonwalder1708]

Oh 'yes we always go to the dead jews can't forget to showcase that!!

[@seafishinggirl]

Yes I would like to know how many Jews still live in Germany