Re-examining the DDR, Part I

It seems to me that East Germany gets an unfair shake from nationalists. Yes, it was officially a Soviet-aligned Communist satellite state. To nationalists, this was the epitome of evil: a once-proud Prussian people under the eternally-stomping boot of Judeo-Bolshevism. But was that really the case? Between American-aligned capitalist satellite state West Germany and Communist East Germany, which was really the lesser of two evils? Which nation did a better job of preserving its "German-ness"?

I will lay out the case that the DDR (East Germany) was the lesser of two evils for nationalists and even had the potential to become the nationalist Germany. One thing is for sure - East Germany, in terms of nationalism, had a lot going for it - so much so that nationalists in West Germany saw it as preferable to the degenerate nation-wrecking debauchery of Americanism seen in the West.

The SED: A vehicle for German (and White) Nationalism?

Like every other nationalist, I was, for the longest time, dismissive of East Germany as just another Zio-Judeo-Bolshevist state. The people were oppressed. German-ness repressed. And I just assumed Jews held all important government positions and the poor German women unfortunate enough to get stuck in East Germany were forced to race-mix and their children were all half-breeds. Once I actually did the research, I was very pleasantly surprised by how wrong I really was in that ill-informed opinion. Take for example, in the early 1950s, the Soviet-sponsored East German government had made an honest attempt to reconcile with old Nazi enemies like Otto Strasser. But it wasn't just reconciliation; the East German government had in fact invited Otto Strasser to join them in helping rebuild this part of Germany and be part of the government.

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Well that just sounds crazy, doesn't it? A Communist government invited a Nazi to join their government? Absurd! And why hadn't I heard of this before? Perhaps there is more that's been kept from being common knowledge? I'm certain of it:

A problem for the Soviets that they identified with the early SED was its potential to develop into a nationalist party. At large party meetings, members applauded speakers who talked of nationalism much more than when they spoke of solving social problems and gender equality. Some even proposed the idea of establishing an independent German socialist state free of both Soviet and Western influence, and of soon regaining the formerly German land that the Yalta Conference, and ultimately the Potsdam Conference, had (re)allocated to Poland, the USSR and Czechoslovakia.

Soviet negotiators reported that SED politicians frequently pushed past the boundaries of the political statements which had been approved by the Soviet monitors, and there was some initial difficulty making regional SED officials realize that they should think carefully before opposing the political positions decided upon by the Central Committee in Berlin.

Well, isn't that something? First they invite Nazis to join their government and then they do stuff like applaud nationalist talk of regaining lost territory? Next thing you'll tell me is that the SED was even racially nationalistic. Yeah right.

Look at all those white people

Modern Germany, the Federal Republic thereof, has been having a very serious battle with immigration. She's getting bombarded with it and the native birth rate is God-awful at under 1.4 children per woman. Diversity! Diversity everywhere! But this problem seems to have plagued West Germany since after WWII, starting with the mischlingskinder babies. In the immediate aftermath of WWII, black American servicemen had their way with German women, producing 5,000 of these "brown babies". That's a lot of rape. This didn't happen in the East. In fact, I can't find any reports or statistics of miscegenation occurring in the East.

But here is what I did come across when it came to immigration in East Germany: there was no immigration. The way immigration worked in East Germany was that if you were not from a Warsaw Pact nation, you could not permanently stay in East Germany. You could only work for a set period of time, from 2 - 6 years, and then you were required to leave and return to your home nation. In other words, immigration was temporary and contractual work-based. Imagine for a moment making this argument to Americans given the Mexico border crisis and hordes of third-worlders crossing in: "They can stay temporarily and work for 5 years. Then they must leave if they are not white." Wow. That would just cause the Left to explode with accusations of EVIL NAZI! despite the fact that this is the precise policy East Germany had.

Here is a gem:

Beginning in the 1960s, initially mainly to give them training and then, as time went on, to fill a hole in its own workforce, the GDR brought in hundreds of thousands of workers from friendly countries through agreements with their governments.

The workers' contracts lasted between two and six years depending on their country of origin. At the end of their contracts they were supposed to leave.

And another:

 By the mid-1980s, Vietnamese, along with Mozambicans, comprised the main groups of foreign labourers in the GDR.[10] From a population of just 2,482 in 1980, the number of Vietnamese residents of East Germany grew to 59,053 by 1989, with the largest influx in 1987 and 1988.[11] They were concentrated mainly in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dresden, Erfurt, East Berlin, and Leipzig.[12] Their contracts were supposed to last for five years, after which they would return home.[4]

Wow, East Germany. I'm impressed! I'd have a very similar policy. It seems like East Germany really wanted to protect its racial makeup.

 To be continued...