Right wing growing in Germany

An Indian friend of mine who has lived in Germany for 25 years ( and still lives there ) is on a visit to India, and came to meet me.

He said that Germans admitted a lot of foreigners, including Turks, Syrians, Iraqis, etc because of the feeling of guilt in sending 6 million Jews to gas chambers. They wanted to show that they are not bad people.

But this is recoiling on them. Right wing groups are increasing, thinking their jobs are being take...n away by foreigners, and attacks on foreigners may begin.

He said that it is safer in Berlin, but in Dresden, which was bombed heavily during the Second World War, it is very unsafe for foreigners, and he would advise them not to go there. A right wing party called PEGiDA is inciting such feelings. The same is the position in many other German cities. After Brexit, this has increased

http://www.spiegel.de/…/refugee-crisis-drives-rise-of-new-r…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Beware-the-rise-of-radical-Rig…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida

Schiller ( 1759-1805 )

Friedrich Schiller is my favourite German writer. I found his ' The Robbers ', ' Don Carlos ', ' Wallenstein ' and ' William Tell ' fascinating.

 But when I mentioned about him and his works to some German friends they seemed hardly interested. They had read these books in school in Germany, but said they found them boring. On the other hand I found them very interesting.

 I think the reason for this is that India today is to some extent similar to Germany in Schiller's time, that is, passing through a stormy, transitional period in its history.

Schiller was part of the Romantic ' Sturm und Drang ' ( Storm and Stress ) movement in Germany, to which great writers like Goethe, Lessing and Wieland also belonged

 For example, in 'The Robbers' there are two brothers, the elder brother Karl being an idealist who becomes a rebel, while the younger Franz is a selfish person who only wants to inherit his father's property and accumulate money. Thus, there is a clash of values, as is happening in India today.

' Don Carlos' is about the freedom loving Don Carlos, the son of his tyrannical father, Philip the Second, the King of Spain who wants to suppress the Dutch and impose the Inquisition. Don Carlos takes the side of the freedom loving people of Netherlands, who are in revolt against their ruler, the despotic King of Spain.

The patriotic Indians, who are rebels like Karl or Don Carlos, want to take India forward, while the selfish people like Franz ( who are in the vast majority ) only want to make money by any means.

Germany has passed this transitional period, and hence naturally Germans find Schiller's plays uninteresting.

How to defeat the Germans!

Many people are saying it is impossible to defeat the Germans in football. I can give a sure shot method of defeating the Germans, and I hope some reader of this post will convey this to the Argentine team.

The method is simple : whenever an Argentine player sees a German with the ball he should look straight into his eyed and shout " Stalingrad ". This will so rattle the German player that he wiil leave the football and run away ( just as the Germans dropped their guns and ran away at seeing a Russian soldier at Stalingrad ). Then the Argentinian can take the ball and score a goal !