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Perhaps they're trying to build up their army and arms cache, let afd win the next elections and suddenly Hitler somehow returns?
Yeah that is exactly what happens.
What I find exasperating is the fact that many rightwing movements harbor antisemitism quite explicitly, including the AfD, and when it becomes politically undeniable how awful and incomprehensibly evil the Palestinian Genocide is, what conservative Germans will inevitably do to avoid reckoning with their hypocrisy and willing blindness to pretend not to see something so massively atrociously bad, is blame the jews for backstabbing them.
It is the same dumbshit story over and over again, I don't think this is a unique problem to Europe or Germany, it just feels more pathetic when this story is grafted onto a nation that literally already exterminated millions of jews.
I am sure there are plenty of centrist idiots in Germany who think they need to defend Israel because of Germany's past, so as not to make "the same mistake again" and yet if that is how they really felt with conviction wouldn't they step back and see that Germany is being set up along with the rest of Europe to recoil in horror at the Palestinian Genocide and then turn around and blame it on jews for making a conspiracy to bring good, christian and righteous nations of Europe into doing evil?
I must reiterate, this story never fucking changes and I hate this story.
edit also lots of rightwing military personnel and leaders in Germany have ties with russians, so part of it is just you know, building up the military to "defend" against the people you actually just want to give all that military tech to...