Published 8 January 2021
Numerous social networks were quick to impose bans President Donald Trump, preventing him from continuing to disseminate lies on their platforms, and, more importantly, blocking him from using his social media accounts to incite violence. For many critics, these restrictions came four years too late. The assault on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters has led to fresh calls in Germany for more restrictions on extremist speech in Germany, too.
Numerous social networks were quick to impose bans on the U.S. president from using their platforms, as his posts were seen to have instigated the violence. For many critics, these restrictions came four years too late.
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Gertrud Haase is given a dose of the Pfizer-Biontech coronavirus vaccine by Dr Fatmir Dalladaku at Agaplesion Bethanien Sophienhaus nursing home in Steglitz.
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Gertrud Haase, a 101-year-old nursing home resident in Steglitz, became
This German Protester Compared Lockdown to Nazi Germany and the Internet Did Not Take it Well
The German foreign minister Heiko Maas accused the protester of “unacceptable historical amnesia” and of downplaying the Holocaust.
A video from an anti-lockdown protest in Germany has gone viral after a protester compared herself to the anti-Nazi resister Sophie Scholl.
Scholl was a 21-year-old student executed in 1943 for printing and spreading anti-fascist leaflets. She was part of a resistance circle called the White Rose. The protester, who introduces herself in the video as Jana from Kassel, claims: “I feel like Sophie Scholl because I’ve been active in the resistance for months, give speeches, go to protests, hand out flyers…”
A video from an anti-lockdown protest in Germany has gone viral after a protester compared herself to the anti-Nazi resister Sophie Scholl.
Scholl was a 21-year-old student executed in 1943 for printing and spreading anti-fascist leaflets. She was part of a resistance circle called the White Rose. The protester, who introduces herself in the video as Jana from Kassel, claims: “I feel like Sophie Scholl because I’ve been active in the resistance for months, give speeches, go to protests, hand out flyers…”
During her speech, she is interrupted by one of the stewards at the event who refuses to “do security for this nonsense anymore”. We then see the young woman throwing her microphone to the floor and storming off the stage.