racist German army video: "Think of blacks and shoot"

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Perhaps the scariest part of http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18112446/">this article is that it's far from an isolated incident:

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‘You are in the Bronx’
The clip shows an instructor and a soldier in camouflage uniforms in a forest. The instructor tells the soldier, “You are in the Bronx. A black van is stopping in front of you. Three African-Americans are getting out and they are insulting your mother in the worst ways. ... Act.”

The soldier fires his machine gun several times and yells an obscenity several times in English. The instructor then tells the soldier to curse even louder.

In New York, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr. said whoever was responsible for the video should be disciplined.

“We need to put to rest the prejudices and the hate that is allowed ... to be perpetuated so easily and cheaply,” said Carrion, who is of Puerto Rican descent.

“The German government obviously has work to do to correct something that is insidious ... Clearly these folks don’t know anything about African Americans or the Bronx,” he said.
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For those interested, here's a half-hour show from 1998 discussing the "Manfred Roeder Affair". That scandal involved German military inviting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Roeder">Manfred Roeder to come give a talk to the German officer's training academy back in 1995. Roeder just happened to be a German neo-Nazi with ties to the KKK that started an anti-immigrant terrorist group in 1980. It also turned out that the German military was funding the guy. So, it was http://www.alertnet.com/ga/971231.htm">a bit scandalous. Anyways, here's the show to listen to for more on that whole mess and how the lack of a true de-Nazification of Germany's institutions can still be felt today: http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx-FTR-086.rm">Audio here

And on a tangentially related note, if there's anyone here that can translate German and wants to help me with a lil' research project I'm currently working on, please let me know :-). There's just a few news articles I'm quite curious to have translated. Thanks!

[nam78_two]

1. K&R

Yikes :scared:

[ftr23532]

2. scary indeed...and having just re-listened to that radio show archive on Manfred Roeder

it's hard to say which story is scarier. http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx-FTR-086.rm">The show ends with a bit about a notorious WWII propaganda film that compares jews to rats that's still a favorite amongst neo-Nazi circle. It point how the creator of that film was still working at the military's Psychological Defense ministry as of 1980.

[Irreverend IX]

3. I finally found the video itself.

Watch here:

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/EMGefJA/neue-Ausbildungsart-bei-der-Bundeswehr

I've had political discussions with a few Germans, and it doesn't suprise me that there's Nazi sentiment seething beneath the surface of their culture.

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4. eek, I may not speak German, but I had no problem understanding that last part

Nice find!

Here's another nazi-fun fact: The son of Gunter Strassmier was a mentor for Timothy McVeigh. And who was Gunter Strassmier? Oh, just former German Chancellor's top aide and the architect of German Reunification!

Last December the House concluded that the FBI had no thoroughly investigated the Strassmeir connection to the OKC bombing, and just this March the head investigator of the bombing called for a reopening of the case to look into the possibility that McVeigh had help from Elohim city...exactly the place that Strassmeir was known to be. Here's some links with more on the Strassmeir connection:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6292143.stm
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=176&printable=1
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/arrl042401.htm