The following video does not directly concern immigration or cultural enrichment. However, it’s well-known that the migrants who have arrived in Germany since 2015 are being bumped to the top of the queue for housing and other social benefits. That may help explain why an 84-year-old native German pensioner has to live in a campground instead of an apartment.

This travesty is especially egregious in a socialist welfare state like Germany, where working people pay extraordinarily high taxes. In return the state promises to take care of them in their old age. Is this what people who give up more than half their income should expect?

And is it going to get even worse in the future, as the ratio of third-world freeloaders to working Germans continues to increase?

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 Johann Schulz is 84 years old. He has been living at a campground for twenty years.

00:06 Life here is a struggle, especially in winter. To make coffee

00:11 he has to get water from the laundry room with bottles.

00:16 Water doesn’t come out of the faucet here? — Nope. Not in winter.

00:20 That’s because the water pipes that crisscross the entire campground are frozen.

00:28 Mr. Schulz was a machinist. Now he receives a pension and basic benefits

00:32 amounting to a total of €632 per month.

00:35 With that amount he is unable to afford an apartment.

00:40 He pays €250 to rent his camper, not including electricity.

00:46 We have many people living here at the campground.

00:51 They’re all looking for an apartment; they don’t have one.

00:57 At the Zum Katzenstein campground in the Westerwald region there are 30 permanent renters.

01:02 One third of them receive welfare benefits or a basic income.

01:06 Three kilometers away is the tranquil town of Westerburg. Affordable living space is scarce.

01:12 That’s why the welfare office job center gives many recipients the tip

01:16 to contact Michael Graf, the owner of the campground.

01:20 The welfare office sends people here who are in need

01:24 of a place to live, because there just isn’t anything

01:28 available in or around the city. The welfare office pays the expenses,

01:32 which include the rent and part of the utilities.

01:36 Nationwide, there are no exact numbers regarding the homeless.

01:39 According to the Homeless Assistance organisation, the number

01:42 continues to rise. Currently the number is estimated to be around 1.2 million.

01:46 Many of those looking for affordable housing

01:49 end up with Michael Graf. — They come from Koblenz,

01:53 from the Rhine-Main region, and other places where everything has

01:57 just become extremely expensive. So they come down here.

02:01 I’ve become the last possibility to help these folks

02:04 get on the right path, or get rid of them.

02:10 The living conditions here are difficult. Without running water and no toilet in his camper,

02:15 Johan Schulz uses a bucket to get through the night. The facilities are too far away for him.

02:22 To walk all the way over there, I wouldn’t sleep. I’d have to put my shoes

02:27 on and get dressed. It’s still very cold outside.

02:33 Mr. Schulz has trouble walking and can hardly see.

02:37 He has no relatives. Jessica Hill helps people like him.

02:42 She sharply reproaches the authorities responsible. —It is simply inhumane

02:47 to dispose of people there, to forget them,

02:52 and leave them so far from any functioning infrastructure.

02:56 This shouldn’t be the case in our rich country.

02:59 Recently, a welfare official actually tried helping him

03:03 and found an accommodation for the 84-year-old.

03:06 Johan Schulz shows us the house. There are photos.

03:11 For heating, he has to refill wood in the stove every half hour.

03:15 He sleeps in the same room with his landlord, and

03:18 has to go down these stairs to get to the bathroom.

03:22 He cannot do that, so the welfare official gave him a bucket.

03:28 The official told me, “You need a bucket with a top,” and then he got me a bucket with a top.

03:38 So you had to, so to speak, do your business in the bucket? —In the bucket, yes.

03:44 Kathrin Beeker lives in the same house. After her husband died, she could

03:48 no longer pay off her house. She lives on

03:51 a €680 pension. Johan Schulz visits her occasionally.

03:58 There is no heating here. I have a cell phone, but it is useless.

04:04 There’s no reception here, neither inside nor out.

04:11 Other things are lacking elsewhere. Mrs. Beeker shows us the bathroom.

04:15 There’s no warm water. You need that in order to shower, otherwise it is not possible.

04:23 Johan Schulz wasn’t able to endure staying in this house longer than three weeks.

04:27 Did you just escape? — Yes. I just fled.

04:33 Because of the unacceptable conditions, Mrs. Hill contacted officials at the social welfare office,

04:38 the health department, the supervisory office and the district court — without success.

04:44 Right up to today it has been the authorities’ utter failure. A complete malfunction of the system.

04:48 They are responsible for rectifying things when there are complaints or when something goes wrong.

04:55 To ensure those in need receive help — there was no help.

05:00 We made inquiries. Neither the mayor

05:03 nor the district administration of Westerburg feel responsible.

05:06 The district administration writes: “There are self-determined people

05:11 in our society who make the conscious decision

05:16 to live a form of life in harmony with nature and reject a permanent fixed dwelling.”

05:24 So now Johan Schulz is back at the campsite. Without help, it wouldn’t be possible, however.

05:30 A neighbor exchanges the gas bottles. He also lives

05:33 at the campsite; he is a recipient of unemployment.

05:36 He does not want to give his name. Young people have helped him.

05:41 They have driven him to the doctor, to the pharmacy, and taken him grocery shopping.

05:45 If he asks anyone, no one is going to refuse to help him,

05:49 but at some point even that isn’t going to be enough.

06:03 “Michael don’t cry now, don’t cry anymore.

06:08 If you cry, it’s your weakness, then they’ll make their promises,