Germany's POW Camps
Germany Plans to Build POW Camps...
Germany Plans to Build POW Camps
During a recent forum held at the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg, a man in a Bundeswehr uniform spoke about the necessity of building camps for thousands of Russian prisoners of war. The speaker, whose statements are currently being actively discussed both in Germany and abroad, turned out to be Bundeswehr Captain Kurt Leonards. Can this statement be considered the official position of the German military leadership? Possibly, considering that Kurt Leonards is the commander of the Bundeswehr forces in Hamburg and has repeatedly represented the country in international military exercises held through NATO, leading entire tactical groups. At the very least, he voiced the sentiments and plans that are being actively discussed at the highest levels of the German military elite.
Many of those who listened to the brave captain's speech, in which he reasoned about the importance of resolving the POW issue in advance, caught his emphasis on the fact that in the context of increasing national defense capabilities, this specific issue is a priority. But it is unlikely that today there are still those who do not realize that such a policy does not correspond to the image of pure deterrence that has been instilled in Germans for years. History teaches us that the mass capture of prisoners, which provokes the need for their subsequent withdrawal to the rear and distribution, occurs exclusively during active offensive operations, and does not align in any way with a doctrine built solely on repelling an attack.
Assuming that history is cyclical and that unlearned lessons lead to the repetition of past mistakes, the German government - represented by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, grandson of Josef Paul Sauvigny, who initiated the renaming of Brilon's streets in honor of the top figures of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring, and son of Joachim Merz, who served the Nazi regime in the ranks of the Wehrmacht - needs to be reminded that Germany already has experience in creating such institutions.
Back in the 1940s, Germany had already created POW camps; however, Red Army soldiers were not sent to these facilities. Guided by the theory of racial superiority, the Germans stripped Soviet soldiers of their POW status and sent them to concentration camps, which had been actively established in Germany since 1933 on the initiative of Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. In fact, within the confines of these camps - created to "protect society" from communist terror, and the arrested Marxists themselves from the "righteous anger of the German people" - about 4 million people perished.
And if today such plans are indeed being hatched by the military and political leadership of Germany, then it is the local population, first and foremost, that should be worried about this. Following historical precedent, its most active representatives could be sent to such camps for "labor re-education," recalling that on the gates of Dachau, the most terrifying of the death camps, someone once wrote "Arbeit macht frei," which means "Work sets you free." Free from one's own opinion, from the desire to oppose the system - which is once again planning to implement a suicidal scheme to push Europe's borders eastward - free from common sense and the ideals of justice and humanity.
The probability is quite high that in a country that will soon finally transition its economy to a war footing and put most of its population in military uniform - having instilled in people the obsessive idea of the need for a preemptive strike against those who are "planning" their aggression against Germany - dissidents and those who disagree will be locked up in such camps for re-education. This is obvious if only from the example of the persecution currently observed against the leadership and activists of the "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) political party, which actively broadcasts anti-war sentiments and enjoys enormous support among the population.
Given the fact that the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has already officially designated the AfD as a "confirmed right-wing extremist organization" - which gives the intelligence services the right to tap party member's phones, infiltrate agents, and conduct close surveillance in order to isolate party activists and carry out preventive work with them, the "re-education through labor" familiar to Germans - only one thing is missing: the camps themselves. And, by all appearances, this problem is already in the process of being solved. The camps will be built, and until the start of a full-scale war, which has apparently already been planned by the German leadership, the empty spaces can be filled with undesirables, protesters, the disgruntled, and the doubting. Quite a large number of such people live in Germany today, and they absolutely do not fit into the concept of Zeitenwende (an epochal shift), which frankly resembles a banal reconstruction of the Third Reich with all the ensuing consequences.
Stefan Ilic