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At a “lateral thinking” rally in central Hanover against the federal government’s crown measures, a speaker compared herself to Sophie Scholl, the resistance fighter against the National Socialists.
The young woman takes the stage on Saturday and introduces herself as Jana from Kassel. “I feel like Sophie Scholl, because I have been active in the resistance for months, giving speeches, going to demonstrations, handing out flyers and registering for meetings since yesterday,” she says to applause.
“I am 22 years old, like Sophie Scholl before she was a victim of the National Socialists,” he continues. You will never stop working for freedom, peace, love and justice.
As she continues to speak, a young man comes on stage and puts an orange safety vest in her hand. “I don’t make a folder for that nonsense,” he says. “What nonsense?” Asks the surprised speaker.
Some folders are added. “This is downplaying the Holocaust,” says the young man. “I didn’t say anything,” the speaker replied.
Then several policemen arrive. The young man, who – as documented in the video of the incident – claims that he was hired as a butler at the rally and now no longer wants to be outraged, leaves and calls Jana for Kassel’s appearance “more than embarrassing.” The young woman on stage turns around, breaks down in tears, throws the microphone and the manuscript of the speech on the ground and leaves the stage.
After the incident, Jana de Kassel returns to the stage and gives her speech. As in the first attempt, she compares herself to Sophie Scholl.
The “Hannoversche Allgemeine” reported Sunday that the young man who interrupted the speech was “an alleged folder” that the scene on the left had smuggled into the “lateral thinking” group of folders.
What is clear, however, is that Jana de Kassel made a comparison in her speech that was considered indescribable not only by the young man who interrupted her.
Sophie Scholl, a student, was involved with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst in the resistance group “White Rose” against the Nazi regime. Among other things, they distributed brochures at their university in Munich, which were intended to awaken the citizens and prepare them for the overthrow of the National Socialist government. In February 1943 the group was discovered.
Brothers Scholl and Probst were convicted of their resistance to the Nazi regime on February 22, 1943, and a few hours later they were executed with the guillotine in Munich-Stadelheim prison.
Maas: “Nothing connects crown protests with resistance fighters”
Many Twitter users liked the fact that the speaker in Hannover compared herself to Sophie Scholl, but there were also clear criticisms. Comments under video of the incident, which quickly circulated on Twitter, described the equation as embarrassing. The young man, on the other hand, receives repeated encouragement. “Respect for the ex-butler who recognized the mockery of the real victims of the Holocaust and opposed it,” he says.
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Strong criticism came from politics. Anyone who compares himself to Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank today “mocks the courage it took to take a stand against the Nazis,” Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) tweeted. That belittles the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetfulness of history.
“Nothing connects the protests of the crown with the resistance fighters. Nothing! ”Maas wrote.
With the Jewish girl Anne Frank, who fled the National Socialists with her family to the Netherlands, wrote her famous diary hidden there in Amsterdam and was killed by the Nazis shortly before the end of the war, a girl recently came across a coronavirus . Protest in Karlsruhe compared.
The eleven-year-old girl had publicly stated that she had to secretly celebrate her birthday with friends due to crown restrictions. Then she felt like Anne Frank.
SPD member of the Bundestag and deputy group leader Katja Mast called such comparisons unbearable on Twitter.
“Some were allowed to speak freely at the meetings, while others gave their lives to resist the terrorist state,” Mast wrote.
The chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament, Johanne Modder, said: “If the Scholl brothers or Anne Frank have to serve the neo-Nazi rhetoric of some participants, this is horrible.”
Increased comparisons about the Holocaust by crown deniers should not be accepted without contradicting themselves. Democratic forces should “draw red lines and stand united at the core,” Modder said.
