Translated "Avante!" article by Rui Paz, collaborator of the PCP International Department
For more than twenty years, the German great capital has been reviewing History, criminalizing the Nazi oppression victims and the powers that have mostly offered resistence, as for the URRS, the communists and the labour movement. During 45 years, Federal Germany was under the control of its military allies. The bonds, which always linked the monopolist capital to the Hitler regime, defeated in 1945, are well visible, not only concerning the bankers and industrial dynasties which passed through from the Nazism unto the Federal Republic, but indeed the high number of important State leaders which pursued a career in both regimes. Remembering some of these most significant figures is important in order to understand the new wave of attacks against the workers rights and the disrespect for the peoples sovereignty, unleashed by Berlin ever since the so-called “unification”.
Theodor Heuss, the first President of the Republic of Germany, was one of the MP’s who voted the law which gave Hitler full powers ( Ermächtigunsgesetz) in the Reichstag, on the 23rd March 1933. His successor was to be Heinrich Lübke, a concentration camps and slave work centres builder during the III Reich. Upon a short interim, Walter Schell and Karl Carstens were to follow, both Hitler’s Party, the NSDAP, old members. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, a member of the Nazi party since February 1933, will be Germany’s Chancellor between 1966 and 1969. Hans Globke´s ascent as the Chancery’s secretary of state, from 1953 to 1963, showed there were no limits for the Nazi recuperation, during Adenauer’s regime. Globke was the official spokesman on the Nuremberg racists laws, with the purpose of defending pure blood and the Arian race superiority. Whilst Nazis took hold of more and more important political functions, Bonn’s government turned the German Communist Party (KPD) illegal, in 1956 and begun a new wave of persecutions against the communists.
A State as Federal Germany, founded under the NATO’s military protection, by “democrats” who served a terror regime, will inevitably reflect in its doctrine and behaviour, principles which are contrary to equal rights and the respect for peoples sovereignty.
If one has a bird’s eye view over today’s Germany, what shall one find? Courts which forbid strikes, as it happened during these last days concerning the air controllers at Frankfurt’s airport. Secret Intelligence which ideologically spy on thousand of citizens and file many on the black list, on their political convictions.
State anticommunism, with the purpose of criminalizing the forces which seek for alternatives to capitalism and new paths for a more just and democratic society. Promiscuity among the secret services and extreme -right wing terrorist organizations, allowing, for more than ten years, the impunity of foreigners murders and the practise of racist attacks. The resignation of two presidents of the Republic, in the space of one and a half years, the first for confirming the German troops in Afghanistan defended Germany’s economic interests and the second, having an infinity of entrepreneur “friends”, which rendered such favours, obliged the Ombudsman to intervene. But surprise is not lesser whilst facing the decision of the “ Germany’s European unique party”, formed by the CDU, SPD, Liberals and the Greens, of choosing a conjoint candidate, a protestant minister, for President of the Republic, a deep-rooted anti-communist.
In moments of crisis, the capitalist system reveals the real reactionary, obscurantist and class nature within imperialist states, more intensely and the dangers and threats towards democrat freedoms, labour and social rights become more and more a reality.
