Video: Antifascist grandma from Germany: a personal war against hate
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What can one elderly woman do to confront fascism and hatred in such a huge country like Germany, with its "glorious" nationalist traditions? The attention of the world community is now riveted on a woman who can do it. Her name is Irmela Menza-Schramm … She is waging a personal war against fascism in Germany. How? Very simple: she destroys graffiti.
This personal war began a long time ago, back in 1985. Irmela Menza-Schramm does not use cartridges, grenades and rocket-propelled mortars in her - in a word, not what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers used to win German fascism … She believes that hatred cannot be defeated by hatred, but it can be blocked from the path to the hearts of people. And therefore the target of her attacks and "shots" is not human targets, but posters and graffiti. Armed with a spatula, a brush, water and black cans of paint, the anti-fascist grandmother goes hunting every day. She covers up the swastikas and the Sieg Heil! on the walls of houses, scraping leaflets with the propaganda of neo-Nazi parties, sometimes enters into heated discussions with supporters of right-wing ideas that come across to her.
As for Irmela Menza-Schramm herself, she was born in 1945 in Stuttgart, and now lives in Berlin with her husband and three cats. She is a teacher and renowned human rights activist, and she hates militarism, Nazism and dictatorship. Mindful of how Germany suffered from nationalist sentiments, in her interviews she says that the fight against Nazism is a matter of honor for every citizen.
The anti-fascist grandmother's fight against graffiti does not go unnoticed. Inscriptions of fascists appear on the streets of Berlin "Schramm, we are at war with you" or "Schramm, you'll get yours." And this is really dangerous. But, on the other hand, Irmela Menza-Schramm talks about how she once met a guy on the street who confessed to her that he used to be a fascist, and then left this movement forever, and is grateful for that to her personally. Such incidents give her tremendous confidence in the success of her mission.
In principle, even now Irmela Menza-Schramm can write a whole book "My fight … against fascism" … But so far she does not do this, but Vincenzo caruso and Fabrizio mario lussu they shot a small video about her called The haate destroyer ("Destroyer of Hatred"). Enjoy and - make peace not war !.
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