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Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is lead away by police after a raid in Frankfurt on December 7. Boris Roessler/picture alliance/Getty Images

EuropaUnión Europea

Until last week, hardly anyone had heard of Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, the 71-year-old descendant of a minor German princely family. Even his family had reportedly ostracized him years ago for his extreme views.

Yet for the Reichsbürger movement – the political group behind what prosecutors recently described as a thwarted plot to overthrow German democracy – Heinrich XIII was exactly the man, or rather the prince, they needed.

Absurdly, the Reichsbürger believe that Imperial Germany, which came crashing down a century ago, must be re-established for Germany to rise from the ashes again.

But for that to happen, they need a real prince – which turned Heinrich XIII into a godsend for them.…  Seguir leyendo »

US President Joe Biden (right) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7.

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For the first time since President George H.W. Bush's 1989 offer to Germany for a "partnership in leadership", there is a realistic chance that Germans and Americans will come together as one. That opportunity needs to be seized urgently, as it will enable the rebuilding of a resilient free world.

While Europeans have enjoyed blaming successive American leaders for transatlantic discord, as evident, for instance, in the breakdown of transatlantic trust during the Obama-era NSA snooping in Europe, they all too often forget a simple fact.

Their own latent anti-Americanism and distrust of hard power has prevented a resurgence of a united Atlantic world, just as much as have American actions.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia,

Cuando se cumplía el vigésimo aniversario de la Conferencia de Wannsee, en enero de 1962, la brillante interacción de los cazadores de nazis, de las autoridades alemanas e israelíes, y de los jueces había conseguido llevar ante la justicia a Adolf Eichmann, uno de los últimos arquitectos del Holocausto y uno de los participantes en aquella Conferencia que todavía estaba fugado.

Hoy, medio siglo después de la ejecución de Eichmann, todos los participantes en aquella reunión, en la que se planificó la elaborada puesta en práctica del genocidio de los judíos de Europa, han muerto hace tiempo. Sin embargo, incluso ahora, poco después del septuagésimo aniversario de la Conferencia de Wannsee, no han cesado los intentos de detener y procesar a criminales de guerra nazis.…  Seguir leyendo »