Brave 70-Year-Old Woman has Removed Right-Wing Graffiti from Germany’s Streets for 31 Years

The German people, it seems, are unable to learn from their mistakes.

Despite starting two of Europe’s most devastating land wars in the name of racial oppression (and losing both), Germans continue to elect far-right governments into power in an attempt to exterminate the remainder of Europe’s so-called “undesirables.”

Angela Merkel’s government is the most fascist post-war dictatorship yet. Its private police unit actually forces citizens to perform the Roman salute while smiling, presumably to get them mentally prepared for the upcoming race war.

However, not all Germans are genetically compelled to murder ignoble people with noble gases. There are some Germans, though small in number, who believe in speaking out against the race-hatred that has defined their nation for over a century.

One of those people is Irmela Mensah-Schramm, a 70-year-old woman who has dedicated much of her life to cleansing the Fatherland’s streets of Nazi sentiments.

Al Jazeera:

A smile stretches across Irmela Mensah-Schramm’s face as she adjusts the brace on her gauze-swaddled right hand and lifts a binder full of photos detailing three decades of work defacing neo-Nazi graffiti and propaganda in public spaces.

The 70-year-old says she has painted over or defaced more than 100,000 manifestations of far-right sentiment over the past 31 years. Her one-person anti-fascist battle has left her with an injured hand, on which she recently had surgery, and landed her in a lengthy legal battle.

“I can’t stand this,” the retired teacher says of her hand injury. “It is a catastrophe for me.”

Sitting in her second-storey flat on the outskirts of Berlin, she flips through the pages of the binder, boasting of painting over and reconfiguring neo-Nazi and anti-refugee slogans on walls in cities, towns and villages across Germany and, to a lesser extent, in neighbouring countries such as the Czech Republic and Austria.

The towns and cities in which Mensah-Schramm has worked her liberal magic.

The bravery of this woman is immense.

She wanders the streets of Germany at night, avoiding the sight of patrolling officers as though she were in a Wolfenstein game, just to paint over hateful graffiti.

What’s especially amazing is that Mensah-Schramm isn’t Jewish; she’s simply a White woman who risks lifelong imprisonment to aid Germany’s Jews and refugees.

Mensah-Schramm recalls the first time she defaced neo-Nazi graffiti. It was 1986 and she was on a bus when she noticed a pro-Hitler sticker on a lamp post. She quickly slapped the stop button and jumped off the bus. Within minutes, she had peeled the sticker away. She was scolded for arriving late to work that day, but she was never again able to leave far-right graffiti, stickers or posters intact.

Wow, this woman is truly dedicated to anti-Nazism!

The simple fact is that women, German or otherwise, are the beating heart of a nation. Unlike men, who are stoic and insensitive, women embrace their feelings and understand the needs of refugees, Jews and other marginalized groups in Europe.

Though most Germans support the government’s policy of executing German babies born with brown eyes, it’s not a coincidence that the minority who don’t are overwhelmingly female.

If nothing more, Mensah-Schramm’s story reminds us of why all governments throughout history have allowed women to dictate their politics: they simply know what’s best for a nation.