“This comes against the backdrop of Germany’s unconditional support for Israel, regardless of consequences. This policy line pursued by German authorities has long and firmly occupied an important place among the unspoken dogmas of the ‘rules-based order’ defined by Washington,” Zakharova pointed out.
"The German political elites seem to have done Israel an ill service,” she added. “In a corresponding government statement, Berlin refers to ‘the consideration of German history and the crime against humanity in the form of the Holocaust,’ thereby declaring itself an ‘expert’ in mass extermination-related issues. But what can we do with the crimes against humanity committed by Germany against other nationalities and ethnic groups during the Second World War?” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
Apparently, she went on, Berlin “again forgot that according to the UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/7 and a number of other international documents, the Holocaust is the persecution and mass extermination of representatives of various ethnic and social groups by the Nazis.”
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Berlin Declaration “reinforced the need to recognize the importance of respectful treatment of all ethnic and religious groups without segregation,” Zakharova pointed out.
Moscow Berates Germany for Supporting ‘Russophobic Neo-Nazi Zelensky Regime’
Germany is more active than other EU members in defending the Kiev regime that has proclaimed the glorification of Nazi collaborators as a core component of its domestic and foreign policy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in a statement on Sunday.
“Berlin supports militants who hold neo-Nazi torch-lit parades glorify World War II criminals, use SS division insignia and patches and put Wehrmacht symbols on Western-supplied military equipment. Berlin sponsors and arms them, as well as organizes treatment and provides assistance in the international arena to those who purposefully kill Russians, Russian citizens and Russian-speaking people,” Zakharova stressed.
The past few months have seen German authorities make more statements, in which they “questioned Berlin's condemnation of the country’s Nazi past,” she added.
“Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who publicly confirmed that Germany and Ukraine’s neo-Nazi regime of Ukraine ‘are on the right side of history,’ actually justified the current misanthropic and Russophobic regime of [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, who has reincarnated collaborators of Nazi Germany and is trying to erase the memory about fighters against fascism,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
Previously, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock “proudly announced the death of her ancestors ‘during the defense of Koenigsberg’ [currently the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad]. This is how Germany’s ruling elite perceives the ‘right side’ of history,” Zakharova added.
Russia Alarmed About German Militarism’s Revival Amid Berlin’s Neo-Nazi Agenda
Moscow is “shocked and exasperated” by the fact that the bulk of the Third Reich’s crimes, including the extermination of 27 million Soviet citizens, are not considered a reason for repentance by the German authorities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
“On the contrary, Berlin is once again mired in the destruction of the residents of the part of Europe that Hitler failed to neither destroy nor conquer,” she underscored. “The question arises whether Germany’s previous repentance was sincere and if the de-Nazification of Germany achieve its goals,” Zakharova said. She added that Moscow considers the current German government’s stance to be “unacceptable, illegal and immoral.”
The Kremlin is highly alarmed about “the ongoing resurgence of German militarism against the backdrop of [Berlin’s] endorsement of a neo-Nazi agenda. This may have extremely serious consequences for the fate of Germany itself, as well as Europe and the world, given the country’s contradictory historical experience,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman warned.