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The German Subject 2025: Are the Germans still to be trusted?

by Michael Ghanem
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783384782557
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
  • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Gmbh
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  • Pages: 172
  • Original Price: USD 16.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Commentary & Opinion

The Germans are a people with an eventful past. It is not easy for outsiders to understand how a highly developed and, on the whole, successful nation has developed in recent decades, especially since the Merkel era. From the perspective of a citizen who immigrated to Germany, this book reflects on how Germans deal with the crucial issues of today. The decline of an economy that had previously seemed so successful, an increase in violence and crime, imbalances in social and medical care, job losses coupled with an extremely high shortage of skilled workers: the dangers to which the German people are exposed as a result of geopolitical changes and the shift in power between the West and the rest of the world are a loss of prosperity, rising government debt and, at the same time, increasing militarism and a readiness for war. But German citizens are not taking to the streets. They seem to be resigning themselves to their fate, which the political elite is selling them as having no alternative. However, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and violence are on the rise, more or less hidden from view. The parallels with developments at the beginning of the 20th century cannot be overlooked. Looking back on the turning point of the end of the German Empire, the First and Second World Wars, the post-war period and reunification, one particular phenomenon can be observed throughout: the subservience of the German people. This mentality of subservience led to followers, yes-men, accomplices and conformists obediently and unquestioningly following the actions and orders of the authorities. Even if they secretly complain about the authorities, they still come to terms with the situation and offer no resistance. Heinrich Mann aptly described this in his 1914 book 'Der Untertan' (The German Subject). And if you look closely today, you can see these same characters in a different guise, but with strikingly similar behaviour. This behaviour on the part of citizens is mirrored b

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