On Christmas Eve, hooded activists disrupted the service in the Kleinhüningen church. According to the media release of the Protestant Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt on Wednesday, the activists unrolled a banner with the slogan “Peace instead of incitement”. They would then have also incited against the female pastor Christine Dietrich. “The reaction of the church service visitors to the action was a mixture of horror and fear,” explained Christine Dietrich. The sexton and a few churchgoers then showed the activists out. As the media release further states, the church is now considering criminal charges. The President of the Church Council, Pastor Dr. Lukas Kundert, condemns the disruption of the service.”It is a scorn that the activists call for peace and stand up against incitement, but disrupt even a peaceful Christmas night service and incite against the pastor”, the President of the Church Council remarks. Until 2011, the pastor Christine Dietrich has published articles on a right-wing national blog in Germany. In Berne, she was reprimanded for this activity by her then appointing authority and subsequently withdrew from the blog. In autumn 2019, she was elected to the church council of the Basel City Evangelical Reformed Church, although many members criticised this.

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I’ve seen all kinds of things at Milan Central Station, but this..

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/12/watch-with-pigs-on-lead-against.html

Ironically on the morning of Dec 24th, Fire Departments responded to a fire in the tower of the evangelist Church of Herzogenbuchsee in the canton of Bern, built in 1728. Even though the fire seemed under control by noon, it reignited and shortly before 11PM local time on Dec 24., the tower collapsed, setting fire to the church’s main body. Batteling the fire was difficult, since firefighters couldn’t enter the tower and there was not enough space to set up ladders properly. The fight still goes on at the moment.

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In Aue-Bad Schlema a knife attack with two injured people occurred in a rectory on Christmas Eve. The Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Nicolai had invited needy people to the rectory on December 24. No one should have to spend Christmas Eve alone. According to the Chemnitz police department, however, there were disputes with a 53-year-old man from Syria, who was subsequently expelled from the event and the parsonage. A short time later, eight Arabs turned up at the rectory. A new dispute flared up, which escalated into violence against a 34-year-old Iranian guest at the event. During the mediation of the disputes, a 51-year-old member of the church community was seriously injured with a knife in his stomach. He had to have surgery during the night, the head  of the Chemnitz police department told a local radio reporter. The Iranian suffered minor injuries. The police are searching for the fugitive suspects. 

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/12/germany-eight-arabs-attack-christian.html

A 33-year-old man was pushed in front of an incoming subway train at Nuremberg’s main station and was life threateningly injured. The man had got into an argument with a 32-year-old man during the night on Christmas Day, according to police. The victim fell into the track bed and was trapped under the railcar. The suspect was caught and arrested by the police after a short escape. He was to be brought before a magistrate. According to the police, both men are Iraqi nationals. 

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Two days, two speeches, two faces: On Tuesday, at his official appearance at the Refugee Forum in Geneva, Recep Tayyip gave Erdogan the diplomatic head of state. In front of dozens of TV cameras, he asked the international community for more support for Turkey. Quite different the day before. There the Turkish ruler stepped in front of his supporters in the noble hotel Four Seasons and held – shielded from the public – a propaganda speech against the assimilation of the Turkish people.The newspaper SonntagsBlick holds a video of the speech. A conference hall with almost 200 people, white tablecloths, silver cutlery. And on the podium: Erdogan, who conjures up his fantasies of a great power among the Swiss-Turks present.While Swiss policemen patrol the hotel with machine guns, the Turkish autocrat inside is talking in a frenzy: “One nation, one flag, one home, one state. This is how we will continue!” Applause. Erdogan makes it clear to those present: Even if they lived in Switzerland, they have only one nation to be loyal to: Turkey. The President of the Republic extends his hand into the air, four fingers outstretched, his thumb bent – the “Rabia greeting”, the distinctive mark of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Erdogan goes even further: There is only one state for the Turkish Diaspora to follow. But the task in Switzerland is to expand their influence: “Become active, in politics, science, the economy! In other words, infiltrate Swiss society. Loyal Turks living abroad have always been Erdogan’s aim. Already in 2008 he called out to his compatriots in a speech: “No one can expect you to submit to assimilation. Assimilation is a crime against humanity!”To keep the Turkish diaspora on track, in 2010 Erdogan founded the Ministry of Foreign Turks (YTB), an authority with 300 employees and an annual budget of almost 200 million Swiss francs. The official slogan of the YTB: “We are everywhere where we have a national, a conspecific, a relative”. So it is not surprising that Erdogan’s propaganda appearance in Geneva was organized and probably financed by that very ministry. Murat Sahin from Aargau, Erdogan’s extended arm in Switzerland, acted as liaison man in the background.Sahin is a long-standing president of the Union of International Democrats, a lobby organisation of the Turkish ruling party AKP. He maintains close relations with the Ankara apparatus of power. On Facebook he swore unconditional loyalty to Erdogan: “As long as I can breathe, I will stand with all my being where you command me and fight together with you on this path! Sahin was rewarded for his services to the Turkish government in Geneva: he was one of the few chosen ones who were allowed to sit at the table with the Turkish ruler and his wife personally during the dinner at the Hotel Four Seasons. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu and the Minister of Defence Hulusi Akar dined at the same table. Akar had ordered the attack on the Kurds in northern Syria in autumn. 

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In a meeting with representatives of a Turkish-backed diaspora group in Geneva, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, urged his supporters in Europe and other countries to work hard to secure important posts in the governments of their host countries, pledging them the support of Turkish government agencies. Erdoğan attended a workshop with representatives of the Union of International Democrats (UID, formerly UETD) in Geneva on the sidelines of the Global Refugee Forum held December 16-18, 2019. UID is often described as the long arm of President Erdoğan in Europe for mobilizing the Turkish and Muslim diasporas for the goals of the political Islamist rulers back in Turkey. In his speech Erdoğan underlined that Turks living in Europe should try to get important positions in the governments of their host countries. Erdoğan also asked UID country representatives to work with other diaspora groups and promised the full support of Turkish government agencies. The UID meeting was attended by Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Technology and Industry Minister Mustafa Varank, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials and other government representatives. The Turkish government regularly briefs UID representatives on its policies and priorities and coordinates UID activities. The most recent coordination workshop was held in Antalya, a tourist destination in southern Turkey, on November 8-10, 2019. The meeting once more revealed the UID links to President Erdoğan’s government and how it is controlled by ruling party officials. Thirty-eight representatives from 17 European countries attended the workshop organized by the AKP Antalya branch. The UID representatives were hosted at the popular Ramada Hotel by Turkey’s ruling party. On November 8, the UID members were briefed by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on a military operation in northern Syria, bilateral relations with European countries and a number of foreign policy issues. Çavuşoğlu was accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran, in charge of consular affairs at the ministry.Cevdet Yılmaz, chairman of the AKP’s foreign affairs department and former minister of development, informed participants about party policies and possible projects and underlined the importance of lobbying in Europe, saying, “The number of Turks living abroad has reached 7 million, and they should engage in politics, economy, sports and the arts in order to lobby for Turkey.” Then, Abdullah Eren, the head of the diaspora agency, the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB), described Turkish diaspora policy and explained YTB activities focusing on Turks in Europe. Moreover, the UID representatives noted local challenges faced by diaspora members and their suggestions for overcoming these problems. Participants representing UID country or regional branches also discussed UID’s long-term strategy and its role in Turkish communities in Europe.Zafer Sırakaya, a lawmaker from the ruling party, high-level party officials, UID President Bülent Bilgi and Vice President Ayşe Aşut and head of the youth branch Metehan Çapacı were also present during the workshop. According to its web page, UID was originally founded in in Cologne in 2004 as the Union of Turkish Democrats of the European Union (UETD) and changed its name to UID in 2018 at a convention in Sarajevo attended by President Erdoğan as keynote speaker, reflecting the ambitions of the group to expand its operations beyond Europe. It currently has 152 offices in 17 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.In 2017 an investigative report by German police linked Ankara to a boxing gang in Germany accused of going after opponents of the Turkish government. According to the investigation Turkish parliamentarian Metin Külünk provided money to a boxing gang, Osmanen Germania, in Germany to buy weapons, organize protests and go after critics of the Erdoğan government, German media reported. The police investigations also suggested Osmanen Germania has contact with UID, the AKP’s external lobbying group.

nordicmonitor.com/2019/12/erdogan-asked-his-supporters-to-take-up-critical-posts-in-european-countries/

The Waffen SS used volunteers from foreign nations, France, Sweden, India, occupied Europe, Russia, Libya, Africa, Balkans, etc.. Some of them included people of African descent.

Source:

World War II Oddities, Part 1: Foreign Born Nazi Soldiers
https://www.quora.com/Were-there-black-people-in-German-WW2-forces

And meet those who fought against the Nazis, such as South Africans

South African infantry on parade prior to the Union of South Africa’s entry into World War II.

Yesterday at about 03:00 p.m. a quarrel broke out between two people in a park, in the Robert-Koch-Street in Pasewalk. According to initial police findings, an at first verbal altercation escalated into a physical altercation. Subsequently, an 18-year-old was stabbed by the 30-year-old suspect (Syrian nationality) in the thigh of his right leg with a knife. The victim suffered stab wounds, which were diagnosed by doctors as not life threatening. Nevertheless, the stab wounds were quickly treated in the Pasewalk hospital, so that the injured person could leave the hospital in the evening. Details and background to this incident are still unclear at this time, and the criminal investigation department has begun investigations into dangerous bodily injury. The investigations are continuing. 

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/12/germany-syrian-stabs-man-in-park.html