One of Germany’s largest political parties, Alternative for Germany, has been debanked by a major banking chain following a campaign by activist group Grandmothers Against the Right. The Telegraph has the story.
Omas Gegen Rechts, or Grandmothers Against the Right, launched a petition to effectively debank the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as it warned the party poses a threat to Germany’s democratic order.
The campaign group’s Berlin faction targeted Berliner Volksbank, a major regional banking chain that ran the AfD’s donations account. Senior grandmother Bettina Kern later held a meeting with a bank board member, Carsten Jung, after handing in their petition.
The AfD this week removed the option to donate to the Berliner Volksbank account from its official website, prompting Omas Gegen Rechts to claim victory in their campaign.
“There is great news: Berliner Volksbank is apparently ending its business relations with the AfD, thereby responding to our innn.it petition, which now has more than 33,500 signatures,” the group announced.
Ms Kern, a 77-year-old grandmother, said they started the petition due to concerns that growing support for the AfD hinted at a possible return to Germany’s dark history.
“In Germany, grandmothers have a direct relationship with the Nazi past. Even if we were born after the war we know what a terrible period it was,” she told the Telegraph.
“We are of the opinion that it must never happen again and I personally believe that the AfD has now come to such extreme opinions, that the Government should ask our constitutional court to consider whether it should be forbidden.”
A spokesman for Berliner Volksbank declined to discuss the account in question. They said: “For reasons of banking secrecy and data protection, our company does not provide any information about presumed or existent accounts.”
Note they’re not “Grandmothers Against the Far Right” or “Grandmothers Against Nazis”. Just “against the Right”. Chilling.
I wonder if it has occurred to them that a far greater “threat to Germany’s democratic order” comes from those who think banks should withdraw services from “the Right”.
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Maybe these old Grannies should talk to people especially from East Germany where the AFD is strongest why they support them. They could be reminded of the Stasi that so many wanted to escape to the West from. This is something Farage is well aware of and better be ready for something similar here too.
They’re likely still pissed off that the communist experiment didn’t end as well as they had hoped and probably still believe Stalin was the messiah of the 20th century.
Time for the German Constitutional Court, i think.
The grannies cannot really know a great deal about pre-war Germany. Their own country, after all.
The most liberal constitution of the Weimar Republic was left in place in the Third Reich but did not prevent certain people being forbidden from entering the professions just because of who they were.
Instead of dissent being handled by Brownshirts beating up their opponents in the street, the institutions handle it by revoking access to technologies that are necessary for private life. Incarceration without the embarrassing barbed wire, watchtowers, goons in black, and piles of bodies.
Here it comes. They cannot win democratically so they have to cancel the money. Once you stop debate and fair elections you are in very dangerous territory.
It would not surprise me if those in the old East Germany split off again from West Germany.
If you’ve lived under overt oppression, you’re more attuned to recognising the less overt version.
The East Germans are clearly more concerned than their Western German counterparts. Instead of being curious why that might be, they just insult and belittle them.
My partner is Polish, born under communism. She doesn’t think I’m a conspiracy theorist.
Age and wisdom are not always correlated. Dozy mares.
Well, being a Nosy Parker, I looked into the founders and background of this innocent-sounding “Grannies” group, and found that the spokesman Bettina Kern, listed simply as “a 77-year-old grandmother” in a psychological ploy to get sympathy, is actually a lawyer and retired diplomat with the German Foreign Office, and was the German Ambassador to Nicaragua under the Communist Dictator Ortega from 2008-2012.
The group was founded in Austria, by leftists in a panic over this:
“…in 2017, after Sebastian Kurz was elected chancellor of Austria. Kurz is notorious across Europe for his traditional and national-conservative policies — the then-31-year-old campaigned on securing Austria’s borders and restricting the entry, benefits, and rights of asylum seekers. Experts have warned that Kurz and his conservative government represent a greater shift toward nationalistic and populist policies in Europe.”
‘We feel the responsibility to act’: The German Grandmothers Protesting the Far Right – Women’s Media Center (womensmediacenter.com)
Oh my, the sheer brass neck of the man! Luckily for European civilisation, there are Evil Gangs of Communist Harpies disguised as Harmless Little Old Dears, who did manage to get him ousted on political “corruption” charges.
Interesting comment! It was elderly women in Switzerland who tried to ensure Net Zero policies were pursued more vigorously.
I am a “little old lady” too and I resent these political activists bringing women like me into disrepute! I fear I’m being massively “triggered” by their political antics masquerading as innocent concern!
Well I guess it is time for the Volks who support AfD to remind Volksbank who they are supposed to serve.
We absolutely have to fight back in a concerted way against this sort of thing.
Perhaps they should look to Farage for guidance! Clearly the banks are becoming dangerously involved in politics. I wonder who is calling the shots behind the scenes?
They should look to Farage as an exemplar how to deal with woke banks certainly but Farage studiously avoids any connection with any organisation labelled as far Right.
Yes I held me nose when voting for them, but that was more to do with Tice being mates with Medazolam Mat.
Just bizarre how private individuals can raise a petition and get an organisation debanked.
My mother who is now 84 experienced the second world war: As child from age 1 – 6. All these boomer bitches ever experienced was peace and prosperity because of the hard work and sacrifices of those they routinely decry as evil Nazis¹.
¹ They’re actually doing that: The boomer narrative is that evil Nazis ruled Germany until they fell from the sky to rescue the world in about 1968.
Don’t blame the whole boomer generation in the West for what these Evil Communist Hags are doing.
They should all be forced to read “Hellstorm” by Thomas Goodrich.
I should call them 68ers. At least, that’s the German term. But it’s probably not known much outside of Germany.
Reading the book would do them no good: The official ‘left’ story of 1933 – 1945 is that all Germans were (criminal) perpetrators who deserved anything which befell them and that all opponents of Germany were nothing but saintly ambassadors of the universal good. I’m not exaggerating this. The youth organization of the SPD (Jusos, short for Junge Sozialisten, Young Socialists) is, for instance, demanding that commemoration of the victims of the firebombing of Dresden is abolished because German perpetrators must not wrongly be painted as victims (by evil far right forces, obviously).
The reason why the AfD with its center-right policies is the target of so much vitriol is probably the claim that the 12 years of the third Reich are an outlier and not the logical pinnacle and rightful end of all things German.
Your final sentence really sums it up perfectly. That is what the world’s schoolchildren should be taught: the truth! That those 12 years were just an outlier.
Those Young Socialists are trying to conceal the fact that it was their hero Stalin who demanded the Firebombing of Dresden, at a time when the city was full of fleeing refugees, and he arranged it all with the Treasonous Weasel Clement Attlee behind Churchill’s back, while Churchill was on his way to Yalta.
The fear and hatred of the AfD by much of the German public is psychological displacement activity. The German boomers feel anger towards their parents for their often willing association with and participation in the Nazi regime and WWII. They feel bitterly that cultural stain on Germany forever burned into the psyche of those other boomers whose parents bravely fought, resisted and suffered to win that war, a stain that continues still today even in the hearts and minds of successor generations. This anger has divided and often destroyed German families. A German friend of mine now in his seventies rejected his own mother and father because of it and did not visit her or attend her funeral. Who in their right mind would wish to be born a German and bear that burden of anger and inherited guilt? This trauma will continue to play out like ripples from a stone thrown in a pool for years to come.
Just watched World War Weird and in that episode they highlighted the Norwegian Nazi baby program where Norwegian women were used just to create babies. Their babies were supposed to be the Master race and ended up mistreated and abused because of who they were. I hear they were awarded compensation a few decades later.
Has nobody asked what the grandfathers think?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/americans-war-us-government/5861774
The Yanks have put “the draft” (conscription) on stand by so they are contemplating a war but who with? More importantly will the young men agree to fight? Not according to this article and why the hell should they?
““In Germany, grandmothers have a direct relationship with the Nazi past.”
Clearly. And know just how the Nazis operated.
Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Führer.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-peace-andrew-carnegie-temple-peace/5861713
According to this well-researched article the next big event is coming in September.
Highly recommended.
https://x.com/godblesstoto/status/1809300394570305771?s=48
Our new Foreign Secretary.
David Lammy – never leaves home without his race card.
But wasn’t Mr H a socialist? It was the ‘Left’ that created the monster and it should be the ‘Left’ that are debanked. Oh, that inconvenience doesn’t fit the current narrative.
“We are of the opinion that it must never happen again”, and in a bizarre twist of irony they have brought about that very thing, fascism!
Maybe we can start a petition here (UK) to debank the Labour, LD and Green parties, who clearly don’t have Britain’s best interests at heart!
Kneel prefers his buddies at Davos to his colleagues in Westminster.