German Unity (The Fall of the Berlin Wall)

Hello and welcome! My name is Henning Dierolf, and I am the host of the Heyrolf podcast.

Today, I would like to outline the background of German Reunification.

It is 1989; we are in East Berlin. The Berlin Wall is about to be demolished and German reunification is imminent.

Large crowds in the GDR are holding so-called “peace marches” in all cities and towns.

With torches and candles, they march through the streets shouting, “We are one people!”

Twenty years after reunification, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party was born out of a circle of Christian Democrats.

In Germany (and also very much in East Germany), nationalists, right-wing extremists, and, at the latest, since the era of the childless Angela Merkel, similar parties have flourished in large parts of Europe.

What is it fundamentally about?

It is about everyone being and having to be “one people”.

In Germany, there should (only) be a pure German people—one homogeneous society.

It is about the unified church and that all Germans should be one with the same beliefs. One should be made out of many.

This would be the way to happiness and eternal peace. If everyone believed the same, there would be no more conflicts, everyone would be equal, and wars would be a thing of the past.

Ultimately, it is even about creating a global kingdom from one language and only one people.

Which is the model German people? Which is the purest German people? Which is the chosen German people? According to which German people should everyone orient themselves? Which German people will lead the way?

Who will ensure absolute unity?

Is it the Swabians? The Bavarians? The Saxons?

Is a Germany in which there is no longer any diversity of beliefs, in which there is no longer any diversity of love, at all capable of surviving on its own?

Soberly considered: No!

It would be the end of Germany, just as it was for the GDR.

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Goodbye.