Germany: Marking 25 Years Since the Wall Came Down, President Says Migrants Even Bigger Issue

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 3, 2015

Joachim Gauck: If I had a problem, this is not the guy I would be asking for help.
Joachim Gauck: If I had a problem, this is not the guy I would be asking for help.

Germany being split in half was a problem.

But nothing compared to this new problem.

Which is the biggest problem of all. Ever. Besides the Holocaust, of course.

Reuters:

As Germany celebrated 25 years since reunification on Saturday, President Joachim Gauck said Europe’s refugee crisis posed a greater challenge to the country than the welding together of western Germany and the former communist East.

Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor from East Germany who played a prominent role in the peaceful protests there that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, said the two halves of the country had become one over the past quarter of a century.

“What belongs together has grown back together,” he told an audience in Frankfurt that included Chancellor Angela Merkel and civil rights campaigners from the former East.

Merkel was actually a Soviet-trained hardcore communist.

**HIGH RES** Three decades earlier: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (then Kasner) 1972 at a training camp for East German civil defense

But, whatever.

Gauck, who has a largely ceremonial role but is considered a moral authority for the nation, warned that integrating refugees with different religions and cultures would be much tougher than uniting Germans, who had shared the same language, national culture and history even during their separation.

“Just like in 1990 we’re all facing a challenge that will occupy us for generations. But unlike back then, something is now supposed to grow together that has not belonged together until now,” he said.

Wait, it belongs together now? Citation?

Gauck urged Germans to be patient, saying it would take time to get used to an environment in which “some of what is familiar is gone” while refugees would need time to get used to a society that would sometimes put them in conflict with their traditional norms.

Gauck urged refugees to make an effort to integrate into German society and stressed that German values such as human dignity, equal rights for women and homosexuals and respect for the secular law regardless of any religious affiliations were “not up for debate“.

Well, they’re going to be “up for debate” in the streets, Gauck. Whether they are up for debate at your fancy-pants ceremonies or not.

Also, when he was “urging refugees,” was he speaking in Arabic? Was there an Arabic translator on hand?

His comments reflect growing concern in Germany that the huge influx of refugees could put strain on the liberal values at the heart of modern democratic Germany and he suggested the country would not show “tolerance in return for intolerance”.

Yeah, good luck with that.

You know where these people are from?

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I’d say it’s definitely going to be significantly harder to integrate these people than it was to integrate East Germans.

Significantly.

While still welcoming the newcomers, Germany is now focusing increasingly on the need to ensure respect for German culture. Germany has translated parts of its constitution which outline basic rights such as freedom of speech into Arabic.

It has been demonstrated in both France and the UK that you are probably going to have some issues with this issue.

France
France
UK
UK

But, I guess you can go ahead and try it anyway.

Germans have always been more efficient than French and Brits, allegedly, so maybe you’ll make it work.

I guess.