Rembrandt Clancy has translated and annotated a speech by Michael Mannheimer that was given at a rally for WÜGIDA (the PEGIDA affiliate in Würzburg) on January 5.

WÜGIDA, Würzburg: Michael Mannheimer’s Speech

Introduction and translation by Rembrandt Clancy

5 January 2015

Original Video Source: YouTube

The video below presents Michael Mannheimer’s highly charged speech in Würzburg. He is a dynamic and spontaneous speaker interacting with his audience. This event is about collective survival, for the underlying theme is the demographic crisis in Germany and its political consequences. It finds a highpoint in the demonstrators’ call to resistance, which Mannheimer answers with his reference to Article 20, paragraph 4 of the Basic Law, (Constitution of Germany), a call to resistance against a remote and traitorous elite who are in the process of “extinguishing us Germans.”

[The full transcript of this video is provided later on in this post.]

In his speech Michael Mannheimer quotes three major German politicians whose words in the 1980s expressed serious misgivings about the effects of unrestricted immigration into Germany, especially from Turkey, and the violent consequences which can be expected to accompany the eventual demographic shift. One of these figures is Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974-1982, who said this in 1982:

“I will not have one more Turk cross the border.”

Michael Mannheimer then asks the demonstrators why these same politicians are remaining silent today instead of making common cause with PEGIDA, whose concerns are no different from those to whom the outcome of unrestricted immigration from Muslim lands was evident over thirty years ago. Just one day after his WÜGIDA speech a partial answer to the question appeared in an article entitled “No to PEGIDA” published by the BILD-Zeitung. In it, Helmut Schmidt closes ranks with 79 other members of the German elite, including the neo-Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, all of whom condemned PEGIDA. To highlight this part of Michael Mannheimer’s speech more thoroughly, we translated the relevant excerpt from a contribution Michael Stürzenberger made to Politically Incorrect on 16 January 2015.

The former Federal Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, is a good example of someone who has made a complete about-face. As recently as 2004, he considered it a “mistake” that Germany in the early 1960s “brought guest-workers into the country from foreign cultures” (foreign cultures = from Islamic countries, mainly Turkey). In 2005 he was convinced that “we have overdone it with the immigration of people from completely different cultural worlds”. Seven million foreigners in Germany “constitutes a flawed development”, he said. And now, fully Nazi: “The immigration of people from Eastern Anatolia or from black Africa does not solve the problem, but creates only an additional, enormous problem.” In 2008 he wrote in his book “Who wishes to increase the number of Muslims in Germany, accepts an increasing danger to our domestic peace.” So far so good! But what does the same man prattle seven years later about the PEGIDA citizens’ movement, which have taken on the same problems themselves, since for years the politicians have ignored them out of complete irresponsibility? To the BILD-Zeitung, which asked every celebrity who happens along for a statement on the oh so “xenophobic”, “rabble-rousing” and “racist” PEGIDA, he came forth with the following in accordance with the Zeitgeist so as not to drop out of the forcibly co-ordinated phalanx of hypocrites: “The Pegida protests appeal to mindless prejudices, to hatred of foreigners and intolerance. But that is not Germany. The perspective of our history and of economic sense tells us: Germany must not reject refugees and asylum seekers. Germany must remain receptive to the world and tolerant. Therefore, a resounding NO to Pegida!” Helmut Schmidt, following the old Adenauer adage, What do I care about my prattling from yesterday?”, now strikes the decent citizens on the street, who feel exactly the same as he expressed it himself years ago, as a traitor who applies a dagger thrust in the back. Is it a question of old-age senility, or is it a grave lack of character, of cowardice, so as not to be excluded from the naive-Gutmensch infested mainstream society? […] Thus the old Chancellor seamlessly enters the cabinet of horrors of the wretched dissemblers… It is completely unprincipled to prattle about such diffuse rubbish instead of factually coming to terms with what is actually important about PEGIDA. A look at the 19 points of PEGIDA helps enormously. A former Federal Chancellor would actually have to be able to summon up as much intellect.

Michael Mannheimer draws attention in his speech to a statistical projection which places ethnic Germans in a minority position in their own country within about 25 years. As to why this is the case, and as a pertinent background to the speech itself, we present immediately below a translation of one of his articles entitled Islamisation of Germany: Millions of Abortions; Millions of Immigrants; Coincidence? (18 December 2014). With this short piece, the author displays a keen awareness of the relationship between a successful ideological attack on the reproductive infrastructure of society and the large population movements we observe today. But rather than focus on an unconscious or “natural” demographic decline as such, he address something new which is added to the “appalling depopulation” characteristic of Oswald Spengler’s declining civilisations. He asks if the German elites are not at the highpoint of a deliberately planned reinforcement of the demographic decline of their own people. Self-depopulation as policy is perhaps unique in history, hence it is of value to keep in mind, for the sake of contrast, that the Roman elites, who themselves were no strangers to hedonism, adopted desperate measures, such as the lex de maritandis ordinibus (the Julian marriage laws of 18 BC), in a vain top-down attempt to stem their demographic decline.

Here is Michael Mannheimer’s short article:

Islamisation of Germany: Millions of Abortions, Coincidence? by Michael Mannheimer, 18 December 2014 Diabolical Plan: First of all, the Left sees to the dissolution of familiar structures and then to the complete legalisation of abortion in order to use the consequent depopulation as the argument for mass immigration. Millions of abortions are answered with millions of immigrants. That can hardly be due to mere coincidence… — Michael Mannheimer * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The largest mass murder [Massenmord] of unborn German embryos has led to the largest wave of immigration in German history. Coincidence? The 68er movement and the spread of the birth control pill [Antibabypille] first changed attitudes toward sexual ethics. And the declining influence of the Catholic Church in Germany changed the attitude of many women and men toward abortion. With massive support by the ever more leftist infiltrated leading media, there began a campaign in favour of the largest wave of abortion in German history. Leftist slogans: First “My womb belongs to me” and then “My country belongs to thee”. Coincidence? This mass murder of unborn German embryos was justified by the right to self-determination of women with the slogan: “My womb belongs to me!” The title page of the Stern magazine on 6 June 1971 — “We have aborted” — formed a high point in the debate and became a milestone in the battle against paragraph 218 of the criminal code. The foremost chant of the Left at mass marches was: “My womb belongs to me!” — in order to bring in years later, when the population figures began to fall in Germany, millions of culturally remote people and civilisation-alien immigrants following the slogan: “My country belongs to you!” Millions of abortions. Millions of Immigrants. Coincidence? More than eight million — presumably far in excess of ten million — children have been killed in Germany since the liberalisation of abortion which was demanded and ultimately implemented by the leftist women’s groups (in co-operation with the 68ers); and it has led to a dramatic demographic depletion of Germany. [Mannheimer inserts a (WARNING! graphic) photo here of an apparently aborted baby.] No one knows the consequences of abortions better than the doctors and nurses who have to carry out this intervention on a daily basis. Often the foetuses are fully developed people, who are torn apart by the operation. Source Precisely this depletion was and is being used today by the leftist immigration-mafia (the same circle which had brought about this depletion) as the argument for the largest mass immigration in German history. To date roughly as many immigrants (10-15 million) have been taken into Germany as aborted German children, or as children who simply did not come into the world at all as a result of the sinking birth rate; a perfidious and frankly diabolical plan, currently at the high point of its implementation.

At WÜGIDA, Michael Mannheimer uses a quotation from a Saxon parliamentary Newsletter to give the most direct expression to this connection between Germany’s demographic depletion and the replacement of the ethnic German population with culturally non-assimilable peoples. The Newsletter appears to delight in drawing attention to the projection that ethnic Germans will be in the minority in their own country in less than a generation (Newsletter der Sächsischen Ausländerbeauftragten Nr 6/12, February 2012). It follows the spirit of the slogan “My country belongs to you”, and with a certain Schadenfreude:

“Muslims do not belong to us in Germany, even when they have a German passport and are fully integrated into our society… Just as excluded are also the future Germans [Zukunftsdeutschen] who simply look different than we… We ancestral Germans [Herkunftsdeutsche] do well to think about how every future German can become one of us as quickly as possible. The topic may still appear to require some getting used to. But watch out, dear ancestral Germans [Herkunftsdeutsche]: Our answers will shape our lives. In 25 years at the latest, we will be asking how we can become one of the ‘future Germans’ [Zukunftsdeutschen]. Or will we succeed in overcoming the unspeakable divide between ancestral German and future German?”

The quotation Michael Mannheimer takes from this Newsletter in his speech and which also appears in his blog article entitled “Saxon Parliamentary Declaration of 2012 confirms Position of PEGIDA” (28 November 2014) appears to have been rendered inaccurate by a recent change made in the original Saxon Parliamentary Newsletter itself; however, the substance behind the quotation is still clearly expressed in the article. The original quotation reads as follows:

The proportion of German deaths in relation to the degree of immigration is currently proceeding such that in 20 years people of German extraction will be in the minority in relation to the so-called future Germans.

The relevant part of the article as it now stands is as follows:

According to current calculations, persons of immigrant background will constitute the majority in our population as early as 2035. […]

The year 2035 is the beginning of a new age! It will be an age in which we ancestral Germans [Herkunftsdeutsche] will constitute the minority in our country.

But what immediately follows provides ideological context which does not come out in Mr. Mannheimer’s speech:

How will we wish to be treated then: in a friendly way, politely and included? Or will we be satisfied to be at least tolerated as a protected minority? Is it OK if we are treated then in the same way we often treat immigrants today?

Oswald Spengler:

“… it is to be understood as an essentially metaphysical turn toward death. The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live — he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death (Oswald Spengler. Decline of the West, Vol II, New York: Knopf. pp 103-104)

Video Transcript of Michael Mannheimer’s Speech

Es lebe das heilige Deutschland! *

PEGIDA in Würzburg

5 January 2015

With Michael Mannheimer, Journalist and Islam Critic

Michael Mannheimer: Dear Friends: Can everyone at the back hear me? Can you hear me back there? OK

Dear Friends: We are here to take back what has been stolen from us.

Democracy has been stolen from us; stolen from us is the right to self-determination of all Germans who wish to determine our own future here; stolen from us are our families; these are being destroyed and replaced by large Islamic clans and families; and the most important index of democracy, freedom of speech, — the litmus test of every democracy — has been stolen from us.

Without the protection of the police, this event and other events would not be taking place today. Thanks to the new SA [Sturmabteilung — Storm Troopers]; namely the Antifa, the combat troops and anti-democratic terrorists of the German Left, thanks to them, German democracy has long since been carried to her grave; and Germany is threatened as never before in her history.

Demonstrators:

Antifa ha ha ha! Antifa ha ha ha!

[From: Song of Brigade M: Lui Laf en Lelijk = Antifa ha ha ha]

Michael Mannheimer: Ladies and gentlemen, last week I was in a kindergarten in a German city. In this kindergarten there were 183 children. Of these 183 children, there are now 2 German children. The rest were Muslim children from 17 Islamic states. Is that the kind of future we want? In Pforzheim [State of Baden-Württemberg], just to give an example, 90% of all children under 3 years of age are no longer German, but Islamic. Is that the kind of future we want?

In Berlin and Hamburg there are schools in which, except for the teachers, there is no longer a single German pupil. And this lying press and these lying politicians maintain that there is no Islamisation. Lügenpresse! …

Demonstrators:

Lying Press!

Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!

Michael Mannheimer: This lying press lies to us audaciously, and despite better knowledge, they arrive at an “alleged Islamisation”. They have been claiming for 30 years that there are four million Muslims [in Germany].

Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I read in a North Rhine-Westphalian newspaper… that, in North Rhine-Westphalia alone, there are 4.9 million Muslims. And this lying press claims we have 4 million [in all of Germany]. I’ll tell you how many we have.

We have between 12 to 14 million Muslims currently in Germany and 25 million foreigners.

Demonstrators:

Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!

Michael Mannheimer: So that you know that you are by no means alone, 70% of the German people are behind you. They are not coming here because they are weary and exhausted from their work, from their assembly-line work, or whatever it may be, whilst these anarchists over there are paid by leftist unions. I know Antifa people who receive a so-called fine-money from unions. They receive €10 per stone thrown. That is what our lying press is concealing.

Demonstrators:

Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!

Michael Mannheimer: So that you know how very correct you are, here are some quotations from major German politicians who, in their time, were still able to say what can no longer be said today by anyone without being shoved into the right-wing radical corner. This Nazi-hammer is the modern Left’s “hammer of the witches”.

I quote Helmut Schmidt from 1981, when he was Federal Chancellor. He said the following in Hamburg at a function of the DGB [German Federation of Trade Unions]

“We cannot digest any more foreigners, otherwise there will be a degree of murder [Mord und Todschlag:]“.

In 1981!

I quote the Commissioner for Foreigners from 1981, Heinz Kühn (SPD). He said this:

“Our possibilities for taking in foreigners are exhausted. When the share of foreigners exceeds the 10% mark, then all peoples become rebellious.”

That’s what he said.

Why have these cowards remained silent? Where are all these politicians who said these things then, but are still living today? How come you are keeping your mouths shut? How come… ah ah… Join in solidarity with us and make common cause with your oppressed people.

Herbert Wehner, an early Communist,…

Demonstrators:

Traitors against the people!

Volksverräter! Volksverräter! Volksverräter!

Michael Mannheimer: In fact we are being ruled by a politically criminal caste. The Left throughout all of Europe have de facto taken over the reins of power. They have taken over the media especially. 80% of all media representatives and journalists … vote for the Greens or the Left Party. They are extreme-Left. And the media have conspired with the political caste against their own people. They are the enemy of the people and have declared their people as the enemy. That is no longer a democracy in which we live.

Demonstrators:

Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!

Michael Mannheimer: Listen to what an early Communist of Germany has to say, one who had been educated in Moscow under Stalin, Herbert Wehner in 1982; Herbert Wehner, SPD:

“If we continue to refrain from gaining control over the Asylum problem, then one day we will be swept aside by the electorate, also by our own.”

No more votes for the old parties! The old parties have the same function as the block parties in the GDR. We are being governed by Communists; by a former IM [inoffizieller Mitarbeiter, unofficial Stasi collaborator], an optimally trained Stasi organiser, who today is Federal Chancellor, and also by a Gauck [Gauck the Gaukler = charlatan], who despises his own people and tells lies about us.

We will never forget how [President] Gauck in his infamous Christmas address of 2013 maintained, contrary to the truth, that we Germans were attacking foreigners at train stations. I have researched it. There is not a single case of it. It is always the opposite that happens … and this media lies to us.

So that you know that you are not alone: In a time when reason still prevailed, Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in 1982 said the following:

“I will not have one more Turk cross the border.”

What came out of it? We are being Turkisised!

In 1984 Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl gave a grant of 10,000 D-marks to every repatriating Turk. Even then this problem was eminently clear. Meanwhile this problem has become as much as mainstream policy; in fact, it is the abolition of Germany. That is the policy of the Left. Do we want to allow that to happen?

Demonstrators:

Traitors against the people!

Volksverräter! Volksverräter! Volksverräter!

Resistance!

Widerstand! Widerstand! Widerstand!

Michael Mannheimer: Resistance is called for pursuant to Article 20, paragraph 4 of the Basic Law. Many constitutional experts have already said that this situation corresponds to Article 20, paragraph 4, which says: if political forces attempt to abolish the basic liberal democratic order in Germany, then the people have the right and the duty to resist. I declare that Article 20, paragraph 4 is at hand.

Demonstrators:

Resistance!

Widerstand!

Our country, our values!

Unser Land, unser Werte!

Michael Mannheimer: Dear friends, now and then there are also honest statements; and so you know what our future holds, I quote from a Newsletter of the State Parliament of Saxony of June 2012. Listen closely! And know that we are five minutes before twelve, that the political parties are in the process of dissolving Germany and are effectively extinguishing us Germans. I quote:

“The proportion of German deaths in relation to the degree of immigration is currently proceeding such that in 20 years people of German extraction (us Germans) will be in the minority in relation to the so-called future Germans (immigrants).”

Michael Mannheimer: In 2032 Germany will no longer be in our hands, but under foreign occupation. Do we want to permit that?

Demonstrators:

NO!

Never! Never!

Michael Mannheimer: Dear friends,…

Demonstrators:

Never!

Resistance!

Widerstand! Widerstand!

Michael Mannheimer: Dear friends: a people, who do nothing against their own dissolution are doomed to extinction. And we do not believe what has so often happened. There is a list of over 200 peoples, unknown throughout history because they were too weak to defend themselves against a takeover by the enemy. And by the look of it, dear friends, we Germans have awakened only just in time.

I appeal to all of you: carry this spark of democracy, carry this spark of revolt against our abolition into your work places, in your schools, into your circles of relatives and into your circles of friends. With this movement we must become stronger, from week to week, from month to month, with the objective of sweeping from their offices our political enemies who are governing us, so that we take back what has been stolen from us — OUR GERMANY.

Demonstrators:

Wir sind das Volk!

* A Note on the Flag

I chose this flag because I had seen it more than once at various PEGIDA demonstrations and their offshoots in other cities.

The colours themselves go back to the 1848 revolution and were taken up again by the Weimar Republic. It is interesting to note how these colours have changed their significance since 1848.

As for the immediate history, the flag is associated with Josef Wirmer who apparently designed it, and his brother later advocated it as a flag for the new West Germany. Josef Wirmer supported Graf Claus von Stauffenberg and the July plot to assassinate Hitler, was later tried by Roland Freisler and died by hanging. Here is a link to what appears to be a researched source for it. Below is the relevant part of the link.