In 1844, the poet Heinrich Heine published his satirical epic "Germany: A Winter's Tale" in verse about his journey from his French exile to Germany, which at that time still was consisted of a number of small states. Heine went to France in 1831 because he had come under political pressure in Germany because of his Jewish origins and democratic views, and his criticism of censorship and German nationalism. If you read Heine's cycle of poems today, the situation has hardly changed at all. Instead of censorship, there are orders from the German Chancellor to station new medium-range nuclear missiles from the USA, without any parliamentary decisions. Against this political fierce protest happened on the "German Unity Day" on October 3rd with the theme "Dialogue instead of Nuclear Death". When the Green German foreign minister dismisses the success of the "BSW - Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht" party as Russian propaganda and thus also this protest for peace, then it must be mentioned here that this Green German foreign minister is proud of her grandfather's, Baerbock's military service as an officer in the German Wehrmacht in the Nazi war of annihilation in Eastern Europe in World War II - the apple does not fall far from the tree. Protests against the stationing of US nuclear missiles happened in the 1980's including Literature Nobel Prize Laureatus Heinrich Böll and the founding figures of the German Green Party. At that time, there were still two German states, the FRG and the GDR, which became history thanks to Gorbachev's vision of a European home. However, there was no German reunification, but the annexation of the GDR to the FRG on October 3rd, 1990. The Federal Republic of Germany felt twice to sell itself as a summer fairy tale, namely at the 2006 World Cup and the 2024 European Football Championship. Germany is a real Anschluß (Annexation) fairy tale, Germany will never be a summer fairy tale, remains to be Heine's winter's tale.

Herbert Gantschacher is Author, Director and Producer