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      Weirdly enough, the police is well educated over here. So they can’t even claim ignorance.

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        The difference to the US is that these 3 guys got found out, and will most likely go to jail.

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          True. But at least the Nazi leanings are depressingly common in the German police. And they do get away with a lot of if shit, even if it’s not anywhere near as bad as in the US.

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        The police officers committed these acts while they were still in training as part of their dual bachelor’s degree.

        Yet this is better than the alternative, it’s easier to get rid of them at the earlier stage.

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        Claim ignorance? How? “I didn’t learn in school that neo-nazism and abusing children is frowned upon in society” ?

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        Ok, you know different cops “over here”. In Hannover they’re mostly on the simple side, more spoons in the knife drawer, candles in a lamp shop. No boookz, more harassing homeless folks or kicking teenagers. Educa-what? All in all - despicable group of people. That’s not an opinion, that’s an observation over decades btw. So - it fits and doesn’t surprise at all.

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      Sadly, this is the rule and not the exception. We have a massive problem with racism and right ideology in our police. Power corrupts.

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      Germany was nowhere near as successful at denazification as they would have everyone believe, iirc there were even german conservative politicians post WW2 who’ve argued danzification went too far or was unnecessary. Now I’m not saying Germany is still a Nazi state, they aren’t. But they still have a way bigger issue with it then many would assume.

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        danzification went too far

        Now I’m thinking of an alternate Germany where Danzig took over after WW2.

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          Goddamn, I knew I should have opened the phone for that one (I have a fold, I typed that on the skinny front screen). I swear I retyped that word like 4 times lol.

          I think my next eu4 campaign might be Tuetons -> Danzig -> Prussia -> Germany now thanks to you.

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        The label “nazi” just makes it easier to point fingers at them. It’s much more true that assholes, racists and fascists are simply everywhere. In every country and every society. We as a society need to do our job and fight for our rights, fight against the uprise of organized egoism.

        There are recent examples, where we failed. f.e. russia, afghanistan the list goes on…

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Prosecutors in Germany have uncovered illegal content including Nazi symbols in chat messages involving five officers from three different police districts.

    The five men, aged 22 and 25, are suspected to have exchanged Nazi symbols in chats and possessed child pornography during their training, according to Annette Milk, the chief public prosecutor investigating the case.

    Nevertheless, the allegations are so serious that after examining each individual case, I immediately banned the three officers from conducting official business," Friederike Zurhausen, the police chief of Recklinghausen, said in a statement.

    “Young civil servants, like older ones, must stand up for justice, law and the values of our constitution without a shadow of a doubt,” he continued.

    Several far-right terror attacks in 2019 and early 2020 prompted German authorities to warn of escalating extremism, which led to these hate-speech laws being tightened last year.

    According to the latest ministry information from the end of July, the North Rhine-Westphalian police have suspended or penalised 105 incidents of right-wing extremist behavior over the past six years.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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        why? People in position of power such as clergy, teachers, politicians, celebrities and wealthy in general are always the ones getting caught… after decades of abuse many times.

        Until we admit who are the key groups doing the abuse, nothing will change. If we can’t put clergy in prison for it, our society has not dealt with any of these issues imho. When you have clergy across countries doing it, it sound like a criminal organization.

        Cops any many countries are also notorious for sexual assaults, which are heavily under reported.

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          Power corrupts people, even good ones. Especially people with traumas are draw to positions of power, to compansate for their lack of control in early life.

          You see this everywhere, but some examples: Trump: abusive relationship with father Elon musk: Bullied and nearly punched to death in school

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            “Power corrupts”, sure, but it doesn’t turn people into nazi and child abuse fanatics. Power provides the means.

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    No one is surprised. People don’t join the police to serve the people, they join it to bully them. We all know the gems attracted to positions like that.

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    It never surprises me when nazis and cp are used in the same sentence. If this was us conservative and republicans would be part of that sentence too.

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    So… how did they find this? No background information provided for this story. By the end of the article they no longer found it, it was an accusation?