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Top Democrat fundraising boss shared picture honoring her NAZI grandfather on Veterans Day

A top Democrat fundraising boss in Michigan shared a picture honoring her grandfather, a German who fought for the Nazis, on Veterans Day. 

Kelly Neumann, a fundraising co-chair for several Democratic candidates, shared images of her late grandfather, Albert Neumann, on Facebook in 2024. 

The unearthed post was a tribute to all of her family and friends who served in the miliary, including Albert, who she said was on the ‘German side in WWI & WWII.’ 

Historically, Nazis, also known as members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), was a totalitarian political party under the rule of German dictator Adolf Hitler during World War I and II. 

The Nazis were responsible for the murder of six million Jewish people, and millions more, during the Holocaust. 

Veterans Day is a national holiday that honors allied military members who sacrificed their lives for the country during their time in the Armed Forces. 

In her post, Neumann, who is also a principal attorney at Neumann Law Group, shared images of her grandfather wearing Nazi regalia. 

He also appeared to be donning an officer’s uniform – and she said that he ‘escaped’ to Brazil after 1945, which was a route many top-ranking Nazis took to evade justice in Europe during the Nuremberg trials. 

‘Happy Veterans Day to all my family and friends who serve/served! Without you, America would not be here today,’ she said. 

‘Interesting story, I do not talk much about but my Grandfather, Albert Neumann was on the German side in WWI & WWII. 

‘He escaped to Brazil with my Father after Germany lost in WWII and then made their way to Detroit where they spoke no English and worked their way up to provide a stable life for their family,’ Neumann added before stating her grandfather was one of her ‘best friends’ who accepted her as a gay woman. 

‘My grandfather was one of my best friends. He was one of the first people in my life that accepted me as gay when I was nervous and scared. I’ll never forget him embracing me and loving me for who I am. His story is a true testament that people can change and love indeed can win,’ she continued. 

Her post from two years ago was first reported by Jewish Insider, and quickly attracted criticism online. 

David Wolpe, a prominent American Rabbi, shared the outlet’s article on her post to X and captioned it: ‘This is so outrageous I had to double check it wasn’t a hoax.’ 

Another was left just as flabbergasted as Wolpe, adding that it seemed so unreal it could be something mentioned in an episode of The Office. 

It was often implied that the sitcom’s character, Dwight Schrute, played by actor Rainn Wilson, had German relatives who were Nazis.

‘This feels like something Dwight Schrute would say,’ the user posted on X. 

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Genocide research institute levels accusations against Germany for denying Israel’s genocide against Palestinians

The Israel lobby in Germany has orchestrated a systematic denial of the genocide in Gaza by the government, politicians, and German mainstream media.

The internationally recognized Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide has issued severe criticism of Germany. In a statement dated 13th January 2026, it “condemns the persistent efforts by several high-profile German civil society organizations to deny the ongoing genocide in Gaza and to disseminate disinformation and denialist narratives among German political decision-makers.”

At the same time, the Institute accuses major German media corporations of having become “the Israeli government’s most loyal mouthpiece”. German policymakers are likewise criticized for turning away from the “international legal order” – an order “that was created in large part due to the horrors it produced”. This refers to Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust against European Jews, the genocide of the Sinti and Roma, and the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union.

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Germany’s Censorship Frontier And The Rise Of Digital Control

Some achieve notoriety and fame by chance. Fortune may fall into one person’s lap, another may experience his ten minutes of public shine through a fluke rhetorical spark. In the case of the Minister‑President of Schleswig‑Holstein in Germany, however, this is a dubious honor.

In his appearance on Markus Lanz’s show on Germany’s state TV “ZDF”, CDU politician Daniel Günther slid into that revealing tone of small talk to which people are prone precisely when they believe themselves in a supposedly safe social environment – a place where no criticism is expected, no matter what leaves their lips.

What emerged during his guest spot on Lanz was a condemnable attitude toward the principle of free speech and toward critical media: the threat of censorship up to and including the blocking of individual platforms, including the portal Nius, reveals a profound ethical collapse. A growing, subtly operating apparatus of repression is now reaching us – a warning we should take seriously.

It was almost comical how Lanz, styled by public‑broadcasting elites as a star moderator, in tandem with the state‑aligned media sector repeatedly sought in the aftermath to rhetorically downplay Günther’s clearly articulated desire for censorship. Decontextualize, diffuse, and smother the real scandal with new waves of outrage like the Greenland debate – that’s how the media repair operation works.

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ORBAN: Europe Is Run By German War Troika

Tsarizm/CDM has long been observing and writing about the tyranny sweeping Europe. It seems Eastern Europe is the only region of The Continent willing to tell the truth.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban opined today on the issue.

“Today Europe is run by a German war troika:

“The President of the Commission is a German woman. The German Chancellor, obviously. And the leader of the largest faction in the European Parliament, the EPP, is also a German man. 

“These three people are the ones shaping Europe’s war policy today. The European experience is that European peacekeepers always become warkeepers.”

European capitals have been the main obstacle to peace in Ukraine,; because, in our view, the issue is not about helping the Ukrainian people, but retaining and growing tyrannical power in Europe by globalist actors.

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Germany’s Latest War on Freedom

There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom that can be squashed throughout the Western world.

Germany was the scene of some of the 20th century’s worst tyranny but today’s German leaders have only noble intentions for oppression. Berlin’s Best and Brightest™ “improved” democracy by turning politicians into a privileged caste. After a conservative editor mocked a top German law enforcement official by posting a meme showing her holding a sign, “I hate freedom of opinion,” he was convicted and sentenced to seven months in jail for “abuse, slander or defamation against persons in political life.” The editor is on probation while the sentence is suspended but many other Germans have been locked up for similar offenses.

The US State Department Human Rights Report stated that German police “routinely raided homes, confiscated electronic devices, interrogated suspects and prosecuted individuals for the exercise of freedom of speech, including online.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz personally filed almost 5,000 complaints against his online critics, sometimes resulting in police raids against people he accused.

The German media are gung-ho for government censorship of average Germans. TheNew York Times noted, “Authorities in Lower Saxony raid homes up to multiple times per month, sometimes with a local television crew in tow.”  The Times reported that in 2022, “Christian Endt, a journalist in Berlin whose coverage of Covid drew a steady stream of insults online, reached a breaking point. After an anonymous Twitter user had called him ‘stupid’ and mentally ill, he embarked on a mission to see if he could get the person prosecuted.”

The Twitter account didn’t have a real name but Endt used an image search of his picture and tracked it down to a small-business owner. Local prosecutors fined that guy more than a thousand dollars. Endt told the New York Times, “I was not even sure if what this guy wrote was a crime or not. In the end, I’m happy they did something about it and this person got a signal that there are some limits on free speech.” But is there no limit to the cowardliness of some German journalists? Publicly admitting that you ran crying to the authorities after some dweeb called you stupid and crazy makes a journalist unfit for writing about anything that offends anyone.   

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Germany’s Globalist President Says US “Destroying World Order”

The EU’s increasingly unpopular, globalist political class is crashing out after President Donald Trump ordered the US to withdraw from a wide array of international organizations tied to climate policy, gender ideology, and what his administration has labeled “woke global governance.”

The decision has triggered an unusually emotional response from EU leaders who appear to view American disengagement as an existential threat to their failed globalist project.

Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused the United States of “destroying the world order,” language typically reserved for adversarial powers rather than NATO allies. Speaking at a symposium marking his 70th birthday, Steinmeier warned that the global system was descending into lawlessness.

Steinmeier claims the US has committed a “breach of values” comparable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Without naming Trump directly in some remarks, he nevertheless made clear that the Trump administration’s assertive foreign policy and rejection of multilateral, liberal-globalism represented, in his view, a historic rupture.

Steinmeier went further, painting a bleak picture of a world ruled by “unscrupulous” powers seizing territory and resources. Critics noted the irony of Germany lecturing others on restraint while quietly calling for a massive military buildup of its own.
Despite holding a largely ceremonial office, Steinmeier’s comments carry weight within Germany and the EU. He used the occasion to urge Berlin to eliminate military “deficits” and ensure that Germany is taken seriously as a hard-power actor in an increasingly competitive world.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration confirmed that the US will no longer participate in or fund multiple UN-affiliated bodies, including the UN Population Fund, UN Women, international climate negotiation frameworks, and various democracy-promotion initiatives.

Officials framed the move—its withdrawal from the 66 international—as a recalibration of American foreign policy away from left-liberal ideological activism and toward national interest.

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Germany’s “Transparency Act” Lets Regulators Search Media Offices and Platforms Without Warrants

The German government has discovered a clever way to expand its surveillance powers: call it “transparency.” The federal cabinet has approved a bill that would let state agents enter media offices and digital platforms without needing a judge’s permission.

The official justification, ensuring honesty in political advertising, sounds harmless enough until you read the fine print and realize it’s about as transparent as a brick wall.

The “Political Advertising Transparency Act” is described as an effort to align with new EU rules on political ad disclosure.

What it actually does is grant the Bundesnetzagentur, a telecom regulator, search powers usually reserved for criminal investigators.

If the agency suspects a company has failed to file the right paperwork, it could send its people to “inspect” offices without a court order, provided they claim there’s an “imminent danger.”

“Imminent danger” is one of those magic bureaucratic phrases that can mean anything from “credible bomb threat” to “somebody forgot to upload a PDF.”

Once that phrase appears in law, the limits become a matter of interpretation.

Legal experts have warned that the law tramples Germany’s Basic Law, which guarantees the inviolability of the home. For journalists, the stakes are higher.

Confidential sources, ongoing investigations, and protected data could all be exposed to inspection because a regulator feels “concerned” about compliance.

In plain language: this opens the door to state intrusion under the banner of good governance.

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Climate extremists claim responsibility for blackout affecting 50,000 households

A group of self-described climate activists has claimed responsibility for a massive power outage that hit five districts in southwestern Berlin, saying the action targeted the fossil fuel industry and “the rich.”

Up to 50,000 households and 2,200 commercial entities were affected by the blackout in the early hours of Saturday, a spokesman for the local electricity provider, Stromnetz Berlin, told the Berliner Zeitung. “Full restoration of power supply” is expected no sooner than January 8, according to the company. The residents of the affected areas would have to remain without power in “freezing temperatures” ranging from -7C to -1C, the paper reported.

Police are treating the incident as a targeted arson attack, according to local media. The blackout was caused by a blaze that hit a power bridge over the Teltow Canal, which goes through the southern part of the city. Several nursing homes and elderly care centers had to be evacuated because of the incident, according to a local fire department. No casualties have been reported in connection to the incident.

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Germany Facing ‘Demographic Time Bomb’ From Syrian Chain Migration, Expert Warns

A leading immigration expert has warned that Germany is facing a “demographic time bomb” if it allows the massive influx of alleged refugees from Syria to become citizens as they will be enabled to bring their family members to the country.

A Dutch social scientist who is described as the top migration expert in Germany, Ruud Koopmans, has warned of the massive implications for the makeup of German society that chain migration represents. He argued that the government should consider whether it is the interest of the country to grant citizenship to the near million supposed refugees from Syria.

Speaking to Cicero magazine, Koopmans said that while there has been positive steps made, such as scrapping the so-called “turbo naturalization” of allowing migrants to apply for citizenship after just three years, the standard five-year process remains in place and can still “be considered a demographic time bomb in the long run.”

“We have almost one million Syrian refugees in Germany. It is necessary to think about the consequences of this for the future. This one million people has a great overrepresentation of men. They will look for their partners mostly in the country of origin. This is extremely likely because in these countries, marriages usually take place within large families. In these societies, marriage is also an economic business between families, and the ticket to Europe is an important means of exchange,” the Dutch social scientist said.

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‘German’ Globalist Authoritarianism: Berlin Migrant Housing Costs Skyrocket to Nearly €1 Billion, Tripling Since 2020

Berlin—Germany’s far-left globalist capital—has seen its migrant housing bill explode, becoming a symbol of everything Germans, particularly the AfD, warned about but which most chose to ignore.

Newly released government figures have revealed the capital spent nearly €900 million ($9.8 million) in 2024 alone to house migrants, many of which do not have any kind of status in the country, almost triple the cost from just four years earlier, Die Welt reports.

Internal Senate data confirms that accommodation expenses for foreign nationals reached €883 million last year, compared with €312 million in 2020, an increase of 183%.
The numbers expose the real cost of mass migration policies pushed by Berlin’s left-liberal globalist political class.

Mega-sites like Tegel and Tempelhof have become financial black holes for German workers. Tegel alone swallowed roughly €260 million ($280 million) in 2024, more than many German cities spend on public services altogether.

These costs arrive as Berlin plunges deeper into debt and slashes funding elsewhere—and as other German cities are headed toward insolvency, according to some sources. Universities, cultural institutions, transport projects, and basic city services are all being cut to patch a budget hole nearing €3 billion.

Between 2022 and 2025, total spending on migrant accommodation, care, and so-called integration nearly doubled to €2.24 billion. At one point, city leaders even discussed declaring a financial emergency to unlock special loans to cover the costs.

Now the ruling, anti-European, globalist CDU–SPD coalition claims the costs are “manageable,” setting aside up to €870 million annually in reserve funds for 2026 and 2027, while German pensioners go broke and middle-class lifestyles are increasingly out of reach for young people. For ordinary Germans facing rent hikes and service cuts, that reassurance rings hollow, obviously.

For years, Berlin prioritized migrant housing while native citizens were priced out of their own neighborhoods. Luxury container villages and converted hotels appeared, enriching owners willing to make shady government deals, while Germans sat quietly in line for the ever-shrinking social housing stock.

Only recently has the globalist, anti-German coalition paused plans for new migrant facilities, quietly admitting the system is destroying the German taxpayer. This comes after approving projects like a container complex for over 1,000 asylum seekers just months earlier.

There is one statistic officials now eagerly highlight, claiming new arrivals dropped in 2024. Berlin took in ‘just’ over 21,000 migrants last year, about a third fewer than in 2023.
That decline continued into 2025, with roughly 11,700 arrivals recorded by October. But even with fewer newcomers, the financial burden remains crushing. The damage has been done.

As of mid-November, nearly 37,000 people were still housed in state-run migrant facilities. They occupy emergency shelters, container units, dormitories, hotels, hostels, and former office buildings across the city.

Meanwhile, homelessness among Germans is rising, and working families are being pushed out of urban housing markets. The false promise that mass immigration would pay for itself has collapsed under the weight of hard numbers.

Public opinion is shifting fast, and voters are no longer buying the slogans. Polls show growing resistance to both legal and illegal immigration nationwide.

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the only party that has long warned that unchecked migration would drain public finances,destroy social cohesion, and make Germany and Europe weaker. Berlin’s €900 million migrant housing bill now stands as proof that the AfD was right all along.

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