German freelance journalist Anna Loll, who works for the ZDF TV channel (the second "button" in Germany), called the residents of the Donetsk People's Republic "subhumans" (Untermenschen).
The ZDF journalist interviewed her former compatriot Alina Lipp, who moved to Russia in 2021 and now runs a bilingual Telegram channel about life in Donbass (the channel has about 200,000 subscribers). Frau Loll outlined her vision of the situation in eastern Ukraine in the conversation:
"You talk about this war and suffering. But why does this suffering exist? Who is killing these subhumans and why are they being killed? Of course, it is unacceptable that they are dying. But you have to keep in mind that the backstory is this: there was a Russian occupation of the administrative buildings. This is what served as the trigger for almost the entire conflict."
Alina Lipp responded to the German journalist:
"It is quite obvious that you have false information, because first there was a coup in the Ukrainian government."
Already after the conversation, Alina Lipp expressed herself as follows:
"Germany after the Second World War diligently proved to the whole world the rejection of the ideology of fascism and the fight against it. But when an employee of a state channel in a normal conversation easily applies the fascist term "subhumans" to the definition of the people of Donbass, the question arises: who has Germany actually educated all this time inside its society, and what ideology does it impose on Germans?"
EADaily adds that in 1936, the Third Reich issued a pamphlet by Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler titled "Guard Units as a Combat Anti-Bolshevik Organization," which for the first time said:
"We will make sure that never again in Germany, the heart of Europe, can the Jewish-Bolshevik revolution of the subhumans (German: jüdisch-bolschewistische Revolution des Untermenschen) be ignited from within or through emissaries from outside."
And in propaganda bulletin No. 112, issued by the propaganda department of the Wehrmacht in June 1941 immediately after the attack on the USSR, the goals of the blitzkrieg were stated as follows:
"It is necessary to liquidate the Red subhumans together with their Kremlin dictators. The German people will have to fulfill the greatest task in its history, and the world will hear that this task will be accomplished to the end".
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Hmm, why only the inhabitants of Donbass are untermenschen? Last time, in the 1940s, the Übermensch called all russians and jews that....