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The Murder Paragraph Law Is Also In Effect Here In The Us But It Depends On The Crime Like The US Takes This Law Very Seriously And It Comes With The Death Penalty So Yeah
So how do non-religious people get married in Germany? Do you have an equivalent to the U.S. "Justice of the Peace"? Can you just sign a paper with your partner in front of a Notary?
@@michaelclark737 I have a whole video on weddings! :) But yes, you can just get married at the courthouse (which everyone has to do regardless) and then, if you want, you can do a non-religious ceremony at a non-church location but legally, you only need to go to the courthouse.
There were also already a Konkordat with Bavaria and Prussia before, that became state-law of the successor states. It is actually dispute, afaik, if the Reichskonkordat is still a treaty in force, as it anyway has been transferred from the federal to state level with the new Basic Law in 1949. There was already church tax for the Protestant Churches in Prussia before and today also other some other religions finance themselves that way.
In Germany we also pay sparkling wine tax to finance the construction of the Imperial Fleet, i.e. the fleet that sank itself in Scappa Flow in 1919 to avoid confiscation. But I also find it interesting that apparently so much sparkling wine was drunk before the First World War that it could be used to finance a fleet
It's crazy how many laws stay on the books just because people forget about them and don't enforce them, but then suddenly you get that one situation. Arizona was in the news for something similar recently. Always a pleasure, Feli! Hope you and Ben have a great Christmas!
A good example of this is a law here in South Carolina, USA, that said a man could take his wife down to the local courthouse on Sunday and beat her with a "rod" no bigger than his thumb. Someone found out about this and raised a stink about it, even though no one had done such a thing in decades, resulting in bad P.R. that prompted the legislature to repeal the law in 2014. Another example is child marriage, which is legal in many US states, something I'm quite fond of reminding people about whenever they start screaming about the practice in predominantly Muslim countries. (Of course, their real concern isn't child marriage, but Islam.) Children as young as 12 can marry in several states, subject to certain conditions. Here in South Carolina, the legal age for marriage was 14 for girls and 16 for boys (with a parent's consent), but girls as young as 10 have been married in this state since 1990. The law was changed and now requires both parties to be at least 16, unless one or both have been previously married or given "live birth" (baby lives 24 hrs). However, not every state has raised the minimum age for marriage and it remains at 14 or so in a few. These laws have been in effect for a century or more and reflect a time when America was more rural, sanitation and medical care were still rather basic, many farms and businesses were family owned, and life expectancy was considerably lower than today. And, of course, there are many laws that have been on the books since colonial times, but which hadn't been used in many years; consequently, we forgot about them. That is, until someone finds one and dusts it off. About 30 years ago, one man here in (of course) South Carolina sued a video poker parlor to recoup thousands of dollars he lost through gambling on the basis of a 17th century law that allowed anyone who lost more than $20 through gambling to get their money back. If I remember right, he won. (Video poker is illegal in S.C. now, along with most other forms of gambling.) There are many other laws on the books in every jurisdiction which people have forgotten about over the years because no one has bothered to apply or enforce them for generations, plus all the laws that have been declared unconstitutional (e.g., atheists can't run for public office), but which remain on the books, unenforceable, because the relevant legislative bodies either don't have time to remove them or keep them in place out of resentment and defiance.
Arizona banned abortion in the 1860s, then that law became unenforceable in the 1970s, then came back into power after Roe v. Wade was undone. It hadn't been removed in the intervening 50 years so obviously it was still there, and then people were very upset about it.
Actually, there should be no problem. The Nuremberg Tribunal stated that Nazi state was a criminal state. Not only Nazi officials were criminals but the state itself was criminal. Hence, all the laws written in the time of this state are criminal and must be repealed automatically. There shouldn't be any special procedure for their annulment. One of the reasons why the bulk of judges of Nazi time escaped justice was that the Nazis didn't write so many laws - they simply successfully used the criminal code of the previous regime. Yes, they twisted them in its own use but that was hard to prove and in the general atmosphere of leniency toward Nazi criminals in the western zones of occupation the Allies preferred to close their eyes toward it. There was new agenda: the cold war and Nazi judges were useful.
Virtually the first law Hitler promoted after taking power was a strict animal protection law that is still reflected in laws throughout Europe. Goerings famous quote was: "He who tortures an animal wounds the pride of the German People."
Feli, I think you should consider a video on the German Gun Act of 1938. There is a lot of misconceptions about this law here in the U.S. that it was a law prohibiting gun ownership in Germany. I was schooled by a German on this law.
The 1938 Weapons Law was an update of the Weimar 1928 firearms laws. If you were a NSDAP member, firearms ownership and usage was not prohibited, but encouraged. I think one of the most incredible aspects of post-1933 German law was an official encouragement of dueling. It was seen as a masculine way of settling debates. German universities had dueling clubs for decades, but the NSDAP extended that into its paramilitary formations and allowed firearms instead of just swords to be used. However, dueling was eventually banned in 1936, as the Nazis found out the same dilemma the US Navy encountered in the 1840s: expensively trained men were bumping themselves off over trivial matters such as the hand of a woman or a verbal insult. And that was costing the Reich real money to replace the losers.
Yes: many people opposed to gun control in the US have aggressively cited that law since at leat the 90s, calling anyone who favors gun regulation a "Nazi" and claiming that it's some kind of setup for a dictatorship or genocide.🙄 It also occurs to me that anti-environmentalists and the like would cite that animal cruelty law that Feli mentions, in support of their cause, in the same way that other causes and sciences have been falsely conflated with Nazism.
@TheSaneHatter similarly, antismoking campaigns were first initiated on a large scale in Nazi Germany. But part of the reason was they cancer research was advanced in the Weimar Republic, and it was then that German researcher suspected a link (they noted that lung cancer was much more prevalent among men and few women smoked back then). They had already established a link between cancer and aniline dyes which were first developed in Germany. The other thing us that the Nazis simply used slave laborers from concentration camps to perform work that involved exposure to carcinogens.
Not only in Germany. In most Swiss cantons, companies also have to pay church taxes. However, only natural persons can avoid taxes by declaring their withdrawal.
Yes, but in Switzerland it's easy not to pay the tax if you don't want to. In German, I think you have to have proof that you left the Church, which is not so easy.
@@marcmonnerat4850 In Switzerland, anyone who is at least 16 years old can leave the church independently. The resignation takes place by a written, personally signed declaration to the responsible church office of the parish at the member's place of residence.
@@marcmonnerat4850 I find that hard to believe. I tried to find out how to get unbabtized and it is almost impossible. It is unconstitutional to baptize a baby in Canada because we have freedom of religion in the constitution. A baby can't tell you what religion they prefer so it is violating their rights to baptize them. This is the same in the US and these laws should start to be enforced. I was forced to go to church and Sunday school. No one ever asked me what religion I preferred when I was a kid. A church tax sounds completely absurd. Churches should be taxed and pay property taxes. They take up space, road allowance etc. and make cities bigger, so less efficient. They should definitely be taxed. Golf courses also should pay their fair taxes and they don't and they take up acres in cities. Everyone has to drive further to get from point A to point B. If I was in Germany , I would be writing my representative to get these laws struck. My mother was German and I can't even get German citizenship. That is another unfair law.
I still cannot get over how perfect your American English is. If I didn't HEAR you speak in German, I would think you were any typical U.S. native from your speech.
In the earlier videos from several years ago, she has more of an accent. The ones with her brother, it's very different - his and hers. She has picked up a lot of American qualities in her speech. I wonder if they would mistake her for American in Australia or Britain. Might be a fun test.
@@paulbrickler yes, I am Australian and we'd assume Feli is a US native if we heard her speaking English without context. there are words every now and then which suggest she might not be American due to slight differences in pronunciation, but it is subtle enough that I don't think it'd make a difference to our assumption. there is variance in regional accents across North America, so I wouldn't assume the differences were because she was originally from another country. she's done really well to take on US pronunciation and speech patterns when speaking English.
That's the magic of human brain: if you migrate to a place where some other language is spoken as a child or even as a teen in some cases, you learn the language perfectly, speaking with zero accent, and you do so naturally. E.g. Mila Kunis arrived to the States at the beginning of her teen years and for one year couldn't speak at all as she knew no English, but she eventually acquired the language and now speaks like any other native. Feli arrived as a teen already with some knowledge, now has zero accent. But for us adults, we rarely achieve it, at least not with lots and lots of training, as the one actors and spies have to go thru. I've heard Putin could pass as a native when talking in German, that's how intense his KGB training was. In the few ocassions he's spoken in English he has a strong accent and hessitates a lot in chosing his next word, understandably he prefers not to
The Nazis even introduce the "Reichstierschutzgesetz" (Reich animal protection act) which was considered some of the most comprehensive animal rights and anti animal cruelty laws there were at the time. So animals yes, but people not so much. 🙄
I don’t know if you actually read all of the comments Feli but I just wanted you to know that I absolutely love all of these history lessons that you post! ❤️
There is tremendous dark humour in the fact that an ideology that saw whole groups of people as "sub-human" and "not worthy of life" had a real soft spot for actual non-human creature. An entire mass movement of the character "Ken" from "A Fish Called Wanda".
The Nazis were in power for about 13 years during a period of rapid technological and social change. Governments aren’t psychic so they have to address problems as they are discovered. I’m sure that there were a multitude of problems that occurred just because of the changes in society so they couldn’t have possibly been identified prior to the changes that produced them. If you understand the history of the US between 1933 and 1945 (FDR presidency), then you know that the US in 1945 bore little resemblance to the one in 1933. The New Deal made huge improvements to infrastructure and transportation. This is the same span that Nazis ruled Germany. They implemented a lot of programs that mirrored the New Deal to improve infrastructure and create jobs during the depression. The Autobahn was built during this period as well as increased production from military contracts and a mustering of civilians in public service projects to promote a dominant national identity and a party-centric patriotism which was not actually nationalistic. Nationalism promotes national identity first and ethnicity, religion, and even politics as secondary identifiers. It’s really not surprising that the German government, which still had to handle the mundane responsibilities of legislation, administration, and law enforcement, even in a militaristic dictatorship, made laws that are still relevant, necessary, and valid today. Not every decision made in Germany from 1933-1945 was a mechanism of racist, anti-Semitic, dystopian policy. The same social processes that gave order to the pre-existing culture was mostly present in Nazi Germany. People still sent mail, dated, married, attended schools, raised children, grew old, infirm, and senile, and died natural deaths. You have to administer all of those things even in political chaos, war, and occupation.
Mind you that Reinhard Gehlen (Fremde Heere Ost) was in charge of the BND: Following the end of World War II, Gehlen surrendered to the United States Army. While in a POW camp, Gehlen offered FHO's microfilmed and secretly buried archives about the USSR and his own services to the U.S. intelligence community. Following the start of the Cold War, the U.S. military (G-2 Intelligence) accepted Gehlen's offer and assigned him to establish the Gehlen Organization, an espionage service focusing on the Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc. Beginning with his time as head of the Gehlen Organization, Gehlen favored both Atlanticism and close cooperation between what would become West Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the other members of the NATO military alliance. The organization employed hundreds of former members of the Nazi Party and former Wehrmacht military intelligence officer.
With the way Europeans talk shit about Americans, I would have thought Europeans don't want to be protected by NATO in turn for America's largest contributions to NATO.
@@AsunaYuukiSAO3 If you have friends like the Americans, you do not need to have enemies. Germany is no longer a sovereign state since 1945.First the OSS and than the CIA merged wit All the NAZI Intelligence , made a deal with the devil. The Evil it created is in the detail. Americans can stay to be our friends, But the American Military and Intel services have to go home, the AFD will not forget the Terror destruction against our Energy Infrastructure, of the Nordstream Pipelines. And bring the German Politicians that allowed this to happen, to Justice, as part of a Nuremberg 2.0 Trial. Also the use of the Ramstein Airforce Base will be prosecuted. The German Grundgestz, forbids to wage war from his soil. Alice Weidel has a good chance to become the new Bundeskanzler 2025 after the Endorsement from Elon Musk, Jeffrey Sachs and Tucker Carlson.
@@AsunaYuukiSAO3 The US is the ONLY country which ever needed NATO-protecttion and called for article 5 G:W Bush; "if you re not with us, you are against us"
Here's an idea for a new US law: any US Foreign Service employee or commissioned military officer serving in Germany must subscribe to Feli from Germany. It is 'essential knowledge.'
How about a better new US law: noone can run for president without a prior minimum 4 year history of public service in any capacity from serving in politics, the military, emergency services or even basic public service like parks and recreation? That would have stopped Trump in 2016 and we wouldn't have this crap going on now!
“In 1931, the Nazi Party (then a minority in the Reichstag) proposed a ban on vivisection, but the ban failed to attract support from other political parties. By 1933, after Hitler had ascended to the Chancellery and the Nazis had consolidated control of the Reichstag, the Nazis immediately held a meeting to enact the ban on vivisection. On April 21, 1933, almost immediately after the Nazis came to power, the parliament began to pass laws for the regulation of animal slaughter.[11] On April 21, a law was passed concerning the slaughter of animals; no animals were to be slaughtered without anesthetic.”
There is probably material for a Part III of this series. While Germany's Good Samaritan Law was included already in the German Empire's penal code (copied from the French one), it was the Nazis that gave the law more teeth by upgrading failure to help a person in an emergency from a misdemeanor to a crime punishable by up to a year in prison, as it still is today. (However, this change had little practical effect. See item 3 below.) Americans often seem to be confused about this kind of law, so some things seem worth pointing out here: 1. You only need to help within reason. Finishing your ice cream isn't more important than calling an ambulance for a person who is bleeding to death, but if you can't swim you certainly needn't jump into a river when someone is drowning. 2. The fact that you are obliged to help also gives you (limited) protection if you hurt someone or damage something while trying to help. Getting someone's heart to beat again after cardiac arrest requires very rough action that typically breaks a few ribs. You can't be sued for that. 3. The extent of the threatened punishment is in no relation to how effective such a law is. The mere fact that a Good Samaritan law exists shapes a society so that it basically never gets applied. It ensures that most people follow their natural instincts and help, and that psychopaths who don't help hide the fact rather than influencing others by publicly insisting that watching calmly while someone dies is their right.
Church tax in European context is arguably as old as the church itself. It has been paid by church members in labor or other means if money was not available. In many European countries the state collects the tax for the church and in exchange receives up-to-date vital records kept by the church.
Yeah, it is not a Nazi law. The Bundesrepublik actually adopted the Weimar Republic law for this. I guess for some people everything before 1949 is Nazi law.
Belgian has chruch subsidies, but paid from general tax incomes, --> you have no say , certainly not option NOT to contribute towards it! chruch attendency is low, and currently a lot of that money is considered more of keeping valuable chruches and such in an okay state for the next generation.. only the part were the state also pays priests and such is getting a bit more critic, certainly since the pedofile scandals in the catolic chruch.. debaptising has NO monetairy gain whatsoever, but nevertheless over 14.000 peoples asked to be debaptised in the catholic papers, out of disgust of not just the scandals themselves, but mostly of how the hierarchy of the catolique chruch spend way more time covering up then providing real support for the victums.. i myself consider debaptising myself for over 10 years now, but its no simple form here, i have made the effort yet..
From WWII in the US we still have a tax on light bulbs. Light bulbs were seen then as a luxury and what was supposed to have been a temporary tax for that war, still is real.
@@SandfordSmythe Correct, it was determined by the federal government that light bulbs were a "luxury" item and created an excise tax for them, for the war... and the tax is still there.
Just found your channel. I studied in Freiburg in Breisgau many years ago. You bring a great perspective and you cover many sensitive topics most Americans don’t understand about German culture in an approachable way with great sensitivity.
I was in the process of becoming Catholic when I lived in Germany, so I left the space on my application for a residence permit blank. However, this just wouldn't do! The expression on the official's face when I described myself as "voruber envangelisch" (temporarily Protestant) was priceless!
@@stephenfisher3721 In Germany the dominant denomination of protestantism is Evangelical. There are other protestant denominations, they are just VERY VERY rare so no one ever really talks about them. Because of that, in general, (christian) people are either catholic or evangelical with a few exceptions. Also you can see a clear cut nationwide. While the south / south-west is predominantly catholic, the north / north-east is mostly evangelical (the east part not so much, since they were part of the GDR and religion didn't play that much of a role there).
@@stephenfisher3721 Been there, done that! My mother was Scottish Presbyterian, and I started off Low C of E. I just about remember my mother being confirmed and her finding bishops a very strange idea. If Elizabeth I hadn't sent John Knox packing, the Reformation might never have taken hold if I've understood the history of the Kirk aright Too bad she did - Calvinists are so miserable!
@@stephenfisher3721 The word 'German' in English also refers to one germanic people, or one germanic language, not all. Then most of western Europe went the other way with "Alemani", a Badener tribe. Italians were the ones that got it right.
Immer mehr Kudos für dich, Felicia - so interessant und informativ ist dein Kanal. Ein Beitrag zum kulturellen Verständnis diverser gesellschafts-politischer Ursprünge und deren Niederschlag in Gesetze und Verordnungen, die zu Recht bis heute Gültigkeit haben, hebt dich über einen reinen Unterhaltungskanal weit hinaus. Bitte weiter so . . . !
@@Beery1962So if the same law is invented by communists it would be better? So you do not want animal protection because it was invented by no-no-people?
I just now subscribed. I traveled to Germany for years on business and I love the country and her people. I must say, you speak absolutely PERFECT English with just a small hint of an accent. I look forward to your videos.
The "sporting use" clause is from the 1938 German Weapons Law. It's appalling anything related to the Holocaust is in American law, but Sen. Dodd, the author of GCA68, served in Germany after the war for the Nuremberg trials and acquired a copy of the 1938 law. He had it translated by the Library of Congress for his use since he saw the German method of firearms regulation meeting his goals of unconstitutionally restricting the Second Amendment. Lots on the web about this unknown aspect of American firearms law, much of it from JPFO's research into this in the 1990s.
Very interesting and very well presented. I was stationed in Landstuhl near Kaiserslautern with the United States Army from 1978 to 1981 and didn't know much about the Nazis or German history at the time, but I've learned a lot about it since. Danke sehr.
Dear Feli, another law that the Nazis introduced is the German Compulsory Schooling, which is practically compulsory schooling in the form of compulsory attendance in school buildings. This law was retained by the Allies after World War II and incorporated into the respective school laws of the federal states. It is true that compulsory schooling was introduced by the Weimar Republic in 1919, but this Weimar Republic law still included exceptions for home learning, which were abolished by the Nazi Compulsory Schooling Law of 1938.
It's amazing how Germany took some laws and made them sensible. And they are still going today. Love your videos, and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Yup you need normale laws to regulate things so if something "new" comes along during the time of the nazi's they are probable good laws. (except for the add ons for certaine groups the Nazi's didn't like)
The ban on helping someone fill out a tax return was also passed by the Nazis in 1933. First, a professional ban was issued for Jewish tax advisors and so that they would not give someone free advice, everyone except tax advisors was forbidden from helping someone else with their tax returns. The exceptions are your own children and your wife or husband. The law is still applied and fines are waived.
Does that mean they can't sell a German version of Turbo Tax? Does that mean that businesses like H&R Block can't operate in Germany? What about Americans who live in Germany and are liable for American Taxes? Since they can deduct their German taxes, they have a very complicated American tax situation, and need thorough documentation for their German taxes. They surely need an advisor for their German taxes and their American taxes.
@@gregblair5139 Today it rather protects the means of the tax-consultants -that today of course can be Jewish again, too. At that time they prohibited Jews from performing several (nearly all?) professions. And so this ban should cut off the possibility to do it inofficially, instead. (Although I didn't know about that origin in that specific case, too, -as generally many professions are only allowed to be performed with a diploma/degree in it.)
@@gregblair5139 So in the business area and what it looks like with employees who have to pay taxes in two countries, I don't know. In any case, if you help someone with their tax return several times, that can be considered businesslike.
Of course you can help a friend or relative fill out their tax return. Only if you operate it as a business (regularly charge money for it ) you have to have a qualification which I think is very reasonable.
@@gregblair5139 we do have Apps that help with your tax return in Germany. I guess there are qualified tax advisors that have checked the programming for it’s accuracy
Auch ein schönes Beispiel: 1934 entstand eine Vorschrift, wie Klassenräume in Schulen einzurichten sind. Die Fenster müssen auf der linken Seite sein. (damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben) Die Fenster müssen so groß sein, daß man von jedem Platz aus ein Stück Himmel sehen kann. (ausreichend Tageslicht im Klassenzimmer) Nach diesen Vorgaben arbeitet man immer noch.
"damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben" ... und dann haben wir überwiegend in "Hufeisen-Sitzordnung" gesessen, oder in der Grundschule auch manchmal an "Gruppentischen", d. h. die meisten Schüler sitzen nicht mehr frontal zur Tafel und mit der linken Seite zum Fenster 😂
Was ein ziemlich merkwürdiges beispiel ist, wenn man bedenkt, dass Bildung Ländersache ist und damit man immer noch nach so einer Vorschrift arbeiten kann müsste es die ja in jedem Landesgesetz separat geben, denn der Bund kann kein solches Gesetz erlassen, da er dazu nicht befugt ist.
Geez, where do you think the 1968 Gun Control Act came from? Answer: The NAZI WEAPONS LAW , 18 March 1938. It brought gun serial numbers, the 4473, the phrase "Sporting Purposes", etc.
I met an Ayran Brotherhood biker who had, and wore an Adolph Hitler medal. I complimented him on some of his tattoos (Excellent artwork despite how this conversation ended up) and he thought I was a fellow traveler. The two problems were, I'm Jewish and I was waiting for a Black friend who was coming in from another club where we almost fought a bunch of bikers who sent a Prospect member to fight my friend.
I read several years ago that the Basic Law of Hong Kong passed by the British in (I think) 1960 was still the law in Hong Kong even though HK had been part of the Peopless Republic of China for several years.
The German pronunciation of Saint Nicholas is Sankt Nikolaus. Brought to America by Hessian Mercenaries working for the British during the Revolutionary War and mispronounced as Santa Claus.
This was very informative and interesting. I cannot get over how you can find some of these topics, without spending a good amount of time. Thanks for sharing. Have a great Christmas.
Not every church in Germany has church tax. It's basically government enforced tithing and is somewhat needed to maintain the big old churches there. You can choose to "unregister" with your church, but it basically means you'll get excommunicated from the church if you do. My Ex was really hesitant to unregister from the Catholic church because she didn't want them to read her name out in the congregation A lot of people stay in their church even if they don't go because as they get older they might want to get married within the church later in life. A lot of Germans I met didn't really get religious until they were retired. Also, maybe a little interesting to some people - the Mormon church is officially not considered a Christian church in Germany and while they do collect tithing from their members, they do not do it through this government church tax.
yes, as you said: Not every church in Germany collects church tax. In fact, they are the (Roman) Catholic church, the Protestant church and a few independent, smaller churches that have made such an agreement with the state and use the government's financial administration for the collection of church tax, as a kind of membership fee from their members. However, most of the smaller churches that are independent from the "big two church organizations", don't use that system, but raise their finances by voluntary donations, tithes, offerings (for example, in the case of Baptist churches, Mennonites churches, Pentecostal churches, 7th day Adventist churches ... and surely also the LDS / Mormon church organization that you mentioned). So, the church tax is a method that the two big church organizations in Germany (and some small churches and religious organizations) use ... in my opinion primarily 1. in order to reduce administrative efforts by outsourcing the main part of fundraising to a state institution, and 2. have a more reliable, regular and plannable source of money, than voluntary donations would be.
that is also the case in Germany. Germans who pay church tax are being asked for the amount in their income tax declaration form, and the paid tax is deducted from the taxable income. And other (voluntary) donations to churches can also be considered for the calculation of the income tax, by deducting the amount from the taxed income. For me this means: I attend a church (in Germany) that does not collect church tax, but asks for tithes and donations. Early in each new year, I get a letter from my church that confirms how much money I have donated in the previous year, and I can then mention this number in my income tax declaration. My taxable income is reduced by that amount - in other words, for each 100€ that I donate to my church, I get back from the government about 35€ in the form of income tax reduction, so that I really only pay about 65€ of my own money... or to say it a bit different: a donation of about 300 costs me only about 200 - because the other 100 come from my income tax.
I would REALLY enjoy a deeper dive into naturopathy in Germany, especially sample questions on their test, and a side-by-side comparison with California's laws. California also has a law permitting alternative health practitioners. Their main rule is that practitioners MUST inform patients of their education and training - and especially their lack thereof.
Feli, this was really informative, especially since i lived in Germany as an American and experienced the church tax. The practitioner that you mentioned in NRW, I thought performed euthanasia on these cancer patients, so the overdose was on purpose.
This is very interesting and it is very easy to forget the NAZIs were a political party and had to provide a public face that was acceptable to the population. The NAZIs were horrible, but there were things they did that were politically OK. I'm a 71 YO American and have tried my best to understand how AH became the worst mass murder in history. Over time I've had many German friends who chose not to speak of the NAZI atrocities. It must be very hard to do this, but I truly believe Feli's videos enter into a discussion about the dark German history. People need to understand how Europe evolved from feudal system of Kingdoms, then into the Holy Roman Empire that lacked clear borderers. The shaping of the Modern European Nation-States has never really been settled. Wars (Ukraine-Russia) are being fought today to define the borders. Conversations like these are a step towards the German people being able to regain their heritage. The Germans deal with WW2. Americans must deal with Slavery.
The Nazis were in fact not bad at writing laws. The problems they caused lay in their intentions and actions, not in technical details. The regime was not only "evil-evil-evil" as sub-complex people understand it today or are even taught, but also very technocratic. Technocrats tend to choose their words precisely and make their meaning very clear. As hard as it may sound: I wished that that skill would still be as strong today as it was earlier. There are lots of "banana"-laws passed today, that are formulated indifferently, leaving the judicial system to make something out of it. Or as a German proverb says: Meant well is the opposite of done well.
In Australia we pay a Goods and Services Tax (GST) which is 10% on most goods and services. It was introduced in 2000. This has caused cost of living pressures. Then we have Stamp Duty, this is a tax on property purchases, vehicles and some insurance policies. Adds tens of thousands of dollars right upfront when buying property. Another government overreach causing pressure on families. Fuel Excise taxes is currently 48.8 cents per litre. Another cash grab for the government making our life difficult and costly. Capital Gains Tax, another cash grab. We take the risk, we borrow the money, we pay the loan, the whole risk is on us but when you sell, the government wants a piece of the action. Totally unfair and a legalised theft of our money. There are many more taxes that annoy me, they even have death taxes. They can't leave us alone even when we die.
Very good. I like that you do your research to bring true and non-biased information. There are still a lot of crazy laws still on the book in the USA. For example, in some states it is illegal to dance in public.
Feli, Thankyou for your videos. I've only just discovered your channel and i love it. I'm doing a Degree in language studies currently (Deutsche) And History. Germany is such an amazing country. Your videos are so interesting. could you do a video at some point highlighting cultural history of Germany?
regarding church tax here in the UK we have something called "Chancel repair liability" which goes back hundreds(i believe) of years whereby land/house owners living in certain locations may be liable for the upkeep of the local church even if they do not use it
Kirchensteuer: I'm British and moved to Germany in 1972. I married a few years later and somehow found out that I'd been paying church tax the whole time I'd been in Germany. I'd never registered and was rather surprised because I'm Buddhist. I complained and my tax (Kirchensteuer) was refunded.
Here in England there is a saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, so if a law is good, better to keep it. And Western law is based on The Institutes of Justianian, the Roman Emperor who had 30,000 citizens locked in a stadium and killed by the army.
that is something different ... "church tax" is a fee that church members pay to their respective church (and which is proportional to their income tax) - while the "compensation" for the expropriation of property about 200 years ago are payments that the church organisations receive directly from the government, I.e. from the taxes that the federal government receives ... therefore this is paid by money from every tax payer in Germany, not only from church members.
@@tobyk.4911But the entire system you are describing was inaugurated by the prussians and not by the nazis who were Anti christians. Church after 1815 was no longer authorised then to impose taxes itself. The Payments were handed down to the church as compensation for their lost Land income
@@johannweisspfennig1310 yes, the payments to compensate the churches for the lost land began much earlier - as I already said, they are not the Church tax, but different payments. In this video, she speaks about the "church tax," which is something completely different than the compensation payments from the government that you talk about (and that she hasn't even mentioned in the video)
I didn’t find out until recently that NAZI was never the abbreviation for that party but a nickname given to it by opponents. The actual abbreviation was NSDAP which was the initials for the National Socialist German Workers Party when spelled out in German.
All I want for Christmas is to one day experience the desire, the anticipation, for anything as the dwarf in the Sonne music video standing next in line to be spanked by Snow White.
The Nazis didn't only make laws, but they also abolished some. During their occupation of the Netherlands, they abolished the Dutch "Personele Belasting" which was a tax originating from as far back as the middle ages, which made people pay for owning things like a chimney, a flag pole, a bike, or a piano. This particular tax was never reinstalled.
For completeness we should note that with war imminent, the British government ordered all pets (dog, cats, birds) destroyed by owners or turned in to government killing centers. I can’t find evidence this was fear they’d compete for food or if the rulers used it as a test of citizen obedience. Either way a nasty abuse of power when animal companions would have been a comfort to the owners. It was the Russians who trained dogs to run under tanks while strapped with explosives but it wasn’t very successful. That the Nazis couldn’t evacuate 30,000 horses from Russia, provides context for this incident. When interviewed shortly after D-Day, a German soldier was asked why he surrendered when he could easily have fallen back to regroup safely. He said, “When we saw the huge amount of troops, vehicles and material pouring onto the beaches- there were no mules, no horses… everything was mechanized. We knew the war was lost.”
Actually, the British Government did not order the destruction of pets. They issued an advice pamphlet stating "If at all possible, send or take your household animals into the country in advance of an emergency." It concluded: "If you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed." Based on this, many people took their pets to vets, PDSA, RSPCA and Battersea dogs' home (who were all vehemently opposed to the idea), requesting that their pet be euthanised. There were no 'government killing centres' . The RSPCA and The Royal Army Veterinary Corps tried to stop this, but it is hard to contend with a panicked population. Around 750,000 pets were destroyed. Most euthanisations were carried out in late 1939 (the outbreak of the war) and late 1940 (the beginning of the Blitz). So a government pamphlet did lead to 750,000 pets being killed, but it was not their intention. Battersea Dogs' Home managed to feed and care for around 145,000 dogs during the war, with a permanent staff of four. When looking into the motivation for actions committed by the British Government (or any government really), never exclude the possibility of the cock up theory.
The belief that the Wehrmacht was heavily mechanized and invincible was heavily promoted by the Nazis themselves and pro Nazi propagandists such as Charles Lindbergh. The German Army was in fact still reliant on horses and mules although obviously less so than the Polish Army. It was their strategy of utilizing air support and keeping forces mobile that worked in relative small countries such as Poland or France (which had a modern army deployed in a way that harkened back to trench warfare in WW I) or the low countries that made the Germans seem unstoppable. When they invaded the Soviet Union, a vast country with terrible or non existent roads and extreme cold, the weaknesses of their strategies became all too apparent.
@@steve3131 "The belief that the Wehrmacht was heavily mechanized and invincible was heavily promoted by the Nazis themselves and pro Nazi propagandists such as Charles Lindbergh." Not Quite. Lindbergh was an isolationist, believing (along with a goodly percentage of the US citizenry) that if Europe can make its own mess, it can get out of it on its own, without US blood this time. That was his "Nazism" along with the fact that he was reporting German intel back to our military, along with his assistance training American flyers on long distance endurance flight techniques. Pro Nazi? Communist nonsense!
Very interesting. I just heard ( in English thank God ) on the DW channel the lady that is the head of the AFD day that a person that makes 50k Euros is taxed so much they pay half in taxes. How horrible. She also talked about how her friends from overseas that came back to Germany were shocked at how the trains are not on time and how the government was supposed to privatise the trains, but the state bought all the stocks for the train, which in reality means the trains are still owned by the government. She of course also talked about how bad immigration has been as we just recently saw with the murders and horrible injuries by the Saudi immigrant in Magedaburg. How sad. God speed Feli. Great channel and you explain German stuff well. Regards just about 70 miles west of Cinci. Tim.
Thank for adding law #3! I remember mentioning that in the comments of the last video! Nice to see it getting noticed, although it is a highly discussed topic, ngl! 🙂 But as a medical doctor, I think you know my stance on this topic. Back in 1939 it was also established, because many doctors were of Jewish origin and that did not work with the Nazi regime. So to be able to provide basic care quickly, they came up with that law.
In 1919, the church tax was enshrined in the Weimar Constitution. Article 137, paragraph 6 states: "Religious societies, which are corporations under public law, are entitled to levy taxes on the basis of the civil tax lists in accordance with the provisions of state law." This was before the Nazi government
People tend to say "it's a Nazi Law" because certain Laws (or even just single paragraphs) were adopted by the BRD after the fall of the 3rd Reich and the formation of the BRD and say that as if it's a bad thing. But those people in general don't know that the 3rd Reich used Legislation by former German Nations like the Weimarer Republik or the Kaiserreich and the BND just adopted those (often unchanged by the Nazis) laws into it's own legislation. One popular example being the Einkommensteuergesetz which existed before the Nazis came into power. But because the BRD uses a Einkommensteuergesetz it of course has to be a) a Nazi law and b) because it's a Nazi law it has to be inherently evil. But the Einkommensteuergesetz existed before and the biggest changes the Nazis made was implementing old jurisprudence and decisions of the Reichsfinanzhof into written law (decisions made decades before the Nazis came into power and that are still used today when a case is judged).
AH's love of animals is still felt to this day across the West. Germany was one of the very first countries to implement animal welfare laws through the 30s and 40s, outlawing animal cruelty. This is now the standard for most of Europe and America. Germany has contributed more than most nations to our civilization, equaling even Greece and Rome. Even the parts of our history which are verboten for us to embrace is staying with us in so many positive ways. ❤️ 🇩🇪
But look, were has all this gotten us into ? the worst crises after 1945, our land is being deindustrialized, our Middleclass rapidly declining, our population being exchanged, our Industry moving out in droves, only the Public Sector and our Luegen Presse stays the course. There is nothing civilized about our Woke Liberal Politics. The next election will put an end to this madness.
I remember, when visiting the St. Peters church in Rome i was wearing a cap and one of these Swiss guard men, of course wearing a helmet, told me (rather impolite btw.) to take off my cap. At this moment a group of catholic priests walked by, of course all wearing their normal headgear..
America removed church taxes in the 1830s. People mistakenly believe the U.S. Constitution outlawed state churches, but historically the Constitution only outlawed FEDERAL interference or favoring of churches. Some of the states still had established churches long after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, including its Bill of Rights. Massachusetts was the last state to do away with its state church. Interestingly, the Inquisition in Europe came to an end about this time. BTW, the reason Nazis supported animal welfare and environmentalism is that they were a version of Progressives. All Nazis were Progressives (national SOCIALISTS), but of course not all Progressives were Nazis.
@@senbassador No, originally it only applied a small part of the Bill of Rights -- the Blackstone rights -- to the states. The U.S. Supreme Court during the 1940s, however, reinterpreted the 14th Amendment so as to apply ALL the Bill of Rights to the states. The end result was to give itself way more power than it ever had before under the Constitution..
Regarding the animal abuse law, Hitler was an animal lover and owned more than one dog. So this should not be a shock that he supported anti cruelty legislation when it came to animals.
The training of "Heilpraktiker" only says what they are not allowed to do. Or what only doctors are allowed to do. Otherwise it is allowed to sell sugar balls at overpriced prices. Or tap water in small bottles to claim healing effects.
Your research is college level and I could imagine you doing online teaching with Khan Academy or Coursera. Happy Holidays and New Year to you, Ben, and your families!!
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The Murder Paragraph Law Is Also In Effect Here In The Us But It Depends
On The Crime Like The US Takes This
Law Very Seriously And It Comes With
The Death Penalty So Yeah
So how do non-religious people get married in Germany? Do you have an equivalent to the U.S. "Justice of the Peace"? Can you just sign a paper with your partner in front of a Notary?
@@michaelclark737 I have a whole video on weddings! :) But yes, you can just get married at the courthouse (which everyone has to do regardless) and then, if you want, you can do a non-religious ceremony at a non-church location but legally, you only need to go to the courthouse.
There were also already a Konkordat with Bavaria and Prussia before, that became state-law of the successor states. It is actually dispute, afaik, if the Reichskonkordat is still a treaty in force, as it anyway has been transferred from the federal to state level with the new Basic Law in 1949.
There was already church tax for the Protestant Churches in Prussia before and today also other some other religions finance themselves that way.
In the United States, we are still paying a phone tax on landlines to fund the Spanish-American War
How so? Phones didn't exist during that war.
@@meemo32086 Actually, yes. The telephone was invented in 1876 and the Spanish-American war was in 1889.
In Germany we also pay sparkling wine tax to finance the construction of the Imperial Fleet, i.e. the fleet that sank itself in Scappa Flow in 1919 to avoid confiscation. But I also find it interesting that apparently so much sparkling wine was drunk before the First World War that it could be used to finance a fleet
Here are more details. Most relevant section is towards the bottom
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_telephone_excise_tax
you know what? you're really really good at breaking down somewhat obscure, or complex topics very clearly, in a memorable way.
She barely scratched the surface, just take a look at Operation Paperclip.......... Many Nazi war crime Lawmaker and Judges just changed owners.
It's crazy how many laws stay on the books just because people forget about them and don't enforce them, but then suddenly you get that one situation. Arizona was in the news for something similar recently. Always a pleasure, Feli! Hope you and Ben have a great Christmas!
What about Arizona??
A good example of this is a law here in South Carolina, USA, that said a man could take his wife down to the local courthouse on Sunday and beat her with a "rod" no bigger than his thumb. Someone found out about this and raised a stink about it, even though no one had done such a thing in decades, resulting in bad P.R. that prompted the legislature to repeal the law in 2014.
Another example is child marriage, which is legal in many US states, something I'm quite fond of reminding people about whenever they start screaming about the practice in predominantly Muslim countries. (Of course, their real concern isn't child marriage, but Islam.) Children as young as 12 can marry in several states, subject to certain conditions. Here in South Carolina, the legal age for marriage was 14 for girls and 16 for boys (with a parent's consent), but girls as young as 10 have been married in this state since 1990. The law was changed and now requires both parties to be at least 16, unless one or both have been previously married or given "live birth" (baby lives 24 hrs). However, not every state has raised the minimum age for marriage and it remains at 14 or so in a few. These laws have been in effect for a century or more and reflect a time when America was more rural, sanitation and medical care were still rather basic, many farms and businesses were family owned, and life expectancy was considerably lower than today.
And, of course, there are many laws that have been on the books since colonial times, but which hadn't been used in many years; consequently, we forgot about them. That is, until someone finds one and dusts it off.
About 30 years ago, one man here in (of course) South Carolina sued a video poker parlor to recoup thousands of dollars he lost through gambling on the basis of a 17th century law that allowed anyone who lost more than $20 through gambling to get their money back. If I remember right, he won. (Video poker is illegal in S.C. now, along with most other forms of gambling.)
There are many other laws on the books in every jurisdiction which people have forgotten about over the years because no one has bothered to apply or enforce them for generations, plus all the laws that have been declared unconstitutional (e.g., atheists can't run for public office), but which remain on the books, unenforceable, because the relevant legislative bodies either don't have time to remove them or keep them in place out of resentment and defiance.
Arizona banned abortion in the 1860s, then that law became unenforceable in the 1970s, then came back into power after Roe v. Wade was undone. It hadn't been removed in the intervening 50 years so obviously it was still there, and then people were very upset about it.
@@evildude109 Beat me to it. Thanks!
Actually, there should be no problem. The Nuremberg Tribunal stated that Nazi state was a criminal state. Not only Nazi officials were criminals but the state itself was criminal. Hence, all the laws written in the time of this state are criminal and must be repealed automatically. There shouldn't be any special procedure for their annulment. One of the reasons why the bulk of judges of Nazi time escaped justice was that the Nazis didn't write so many laws - they simply successfully used the criminal code of the previous regime. Yes, they twisted them in its own use but that was hard to prove and in the general atmosphere of leniency toward Nazi criminals in the western zones of occupation the Allies preferred to close their eyes toward it. There was new agenda: the cold war and Nazi judges were useful.
Virtually the first law Hitler promoted after taking power was a strict animal protection law that is still reflected in laws throughout Europe. Goerings famous quote was: "He who tortures an animal wounds the pride of the German People."
So, basically, Hitler wanted to treat animals better than Jews?
Feli, I think you should consider a video on the German Gun Act of 1938. There is a lot of misconceptions about this law here in the U.S. that it was a law prohibiting gun ownership in Germany. I was schooled by a German on this law.
The 1938 Weapons Law was an update of the Weimar 1928 firearms laws. If you were a NSDAP member, firearms ownership and usage was not prohibited, but encouraged.
I think one of the most incredible aspects of post-1933 German law was an official encouragement of dueling. It was seen as a masculine way of settling debates. German universities had dueling clubs for decades, but the NSDAP extended that into its paramilitary formations and allowed firearms instead of just swords to be used. However, dueling was eventually banned in 1936, as the Nazis found out the same dilemma the US Navy encountered in the 1840s: expensively trained men were bumping themselves off over trivial matters such as the hand of a woman or a verbal insult. And that was costing the Reich real money to replace the losers.
@@k.r.baylor8825 At the time, incertain classes of German men, it was considered attractive to have a gash in the cheek from a dueling sword.
Dueling clubs? Isn't it hard to increase the membership rolls?
Yes: many people opposed to gun control in the US have aggressively cited that law since at leat the 90s, calling anyone who favors gun regulation a "Nazi" and claiming that it's some kind of setup for a dictatorship or genocide.🙄
It also occurs to me that anti-environmentalists and the like would cite that animal cruelty law that Feli mentions, in support of their cause, in the same way that other causes and sciences have been falsely conflated with Nazism.
@TheSaneHatter similarly, antismoking campaigns were first initiated on a large scale in Nazi Germany. But part of the reason was they cancer research was advanced in the Weimar Republic, and it was then that German researcher suspected a link (they noted that lung cancer was much more prevalent among men and few women smoked back then). They had already established a link between cancer and aniline dyes which were first developed in Germany. The other thing us that the Nazis simply used slave laborers from concentration camps to perform work that involved exposure to carcinogens.
Not only in Germany. In most Swiss cantons, companies also have to pay church taxes. However, only natural persons can avoid taxes by declaring their withdrawal.
Kirchensteuer , I thought that was only in Germany and Austria ?
Yes, but in Switzerland it's easy not to pay the tax if you don't want to. In German, I think you have to have proof that you left the Church, which is not so easy.
@@marcmonnerat4850 In Switzerland, anyone who is at least 16 years old can leave the church independently. The resignation takes place by a written, personally signed declaration to the responsible church office of the parish at the member's place of residence.
How the heck do you tax conscience ? Ridiculous
@@marcmonnerat4850 I find that hard to believe. I tried to find out how to get unbabtized and it is almost impossible. It is unconstitutional to baptize a baby in Canada because we have freedom of religion in the constitution. A baby can't tell you what religion they prefer so it is violating their rights to baptize them. This is the same in the US and these laws should start to be enforced. I was forced to go to church and Sunday school. No one ever asked me what religion I preferred when I was a kid.
A church tax sounds completely absurd. Churches should be taxed and pay property taxes. They take up space, road allowance etc. and make cities bigger, so less efficient. They should definitely be taxed. Golf courses also should pay their fair taxes and they don't and they take up acres in cities. Everyone has to drive further to get from point A to point B.
If I was in Germany , I would be writing my representative to get these laws struck. My mother was German and I can't even get German citizenship. That is another unfair law.
I still cannot get over how perfect your American English is. If I didn't HEAR you speak in German, I would think you were any typical U.S. native from your speech.
In the earlier videos from several years ago, she has more of an accent. The ones with her brother, it's very different - his and hers. She has picked up a lot of American qualities in her speech. I wonder if they would mistake her for American in Australia or Britain. Might be a fun test.
@@paulbrickler yes, I am Australian and we'd assume Feli is a US native if we heard her speaking English without context. there are words every now and then which suggest she might not be American due to slight differences in pronunciation, but it is subtle enough that I don't think it'd make a difference to our assumption. there is variance in regional accents across North America, so I wouldn't assume the differences were because she was originally from another country. she's done really well to take on US pronunciation and speech patterns when speaking English.
That's the magic of human brain: if you migrate to a place where some other language is spoken as a child or even as a teen in some cases, you learn the language perfectly, speaking with zero accent, and you do so naturally. E.g. Mila Kunis arrived to the States at the beginning of her teen years and for one year couldn't speak at all as she knew no English, but she eventually acquired the language and now speaks like any other native. Feli arrived as a teen already with some knowledge, now has zero accent. But for us adults, we rarely achieve it, at least not with lots and lots of training, as the one actors and spies have to go thru. I've heard Putin could pass as a native when talking in German, that's how intense his KGB training was. In the few ocassions he's spoken in English he has a strong accent and hessitates a lot in chosing his next word, understandably he prefers not to
I can hear it on some words like Coffee
She speaks English better than a lot of Americans.
The Nazis even introduce the "Reichstierschutzgesetz" (Reich animal protection act) which was considered some of the most comprehensive animal rights and anti animal cruelty laws there were at the time. So animals yes, but people not so much. 🙄
I mean, animals are valuable than those group of people
Maybe, but in the same time, millions of horses were slaughtered in the Nazi's Grand Plan to conquer Europe.
In their view jews were not Animals...
Still today too many people feel more sympathy towards animals more than they do towards fellow humans.
So, they treated animals better than Jews?
The signals code for tramways / streetcars was unified around 1937 and they are still today applicable troughout Germany (StVO).
I don’t know if you actually read all of the comments Feli but I just wanted you to know that I absolutely love all of these history lessons that you post! ❤️
There is tremendous dark humour in the fact that an ideology that saw whole groups of people as "sub-human" and "not worthy of life" had a real soft spot for actual non-human creature. An entire mass movement of the character "Ken" from "A Fish Called Wanda".
The Nazis were in power for about 13 years during a period of rapid technological and social change. Governments aren’t psychic so they have to address problems as they are discovered. I’m sure that there were a multitude of problems that occurred just because of the changes in society so they couldn’t have possibly been identified prior to the changes that produced them. If you understand the history of the US between 1933 and 1945 (FDR presidency), then you know that the US in 1945 bore little resemblance to the one in 1933. The New Deal made huge improvements to infrastructure and transportation. This is the same span that Nazis ruled Germany. They implemented a lot of programs that mirrored the New Deal to improve infrastructure and create jobs during the depression. The Autobahn was built during this period as well as increased production from military contracts and a mustering of civilians in public service projects to promote a dominant national identity and a party-centric patriotism which was not actually nationalistic. Nationalism promotes national identity first and ethnicity, religion, and even politics as secondary identifiers.
It’s really not surprising that the German government, which still had to handle the mundane responsibilities of legislation, administration, and law enforcement, even in a militaristic dictatorship, made laws that are still relevant, necessary, and valid today. Not every decision made in Germany from 1933-1945 was a mechanism of racist, anti-Semitic, dystopian policy. The same social processes that gave order to the pre-existing culture was mostly present in Nazi Germany. People still sent mail, dated, married, attended schools, raised children, grew old, infirm, and senile, and died natural deaths. You have to administer all of those things even in political chaos, war, and occupation.
Mind you that Reinhard Gehlen (Fremde Heere Ost) was in charge of the BND: Following the end of World War II, Gehlen surrendered to the United States Army. While in a POW camp, Gehlen offered FHO's microfilmed and secretly buried archives about the USSR and his own services to the U.S. intelligence community. Following the start of the Cold War, the U.S. military (G-2 Intelligence) accepted Gehlen's offer and assigned him to establish the Gehlen Organization, an espionage service focusing on the Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc. Beginning with his time as head of the Gehlen Organization, Gehlen favored both Atlanticism and close cooperation between what would become West Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the other members of the NATO military alliance. The organization employed hundreds of former members of the Nazi Party and former Wehrmacht military intelligence officer.
With the way Europeans talk shit about Americans, I would have thought Europeans don't want to be protected by NATO in turn for America's largest contributions to NATO.
@@AsunaYuukiSAO3 If you have friends like the Americans, you do not need to have enemies. Germany is no longer a sovereign state since 1945.First the OSS and than the CIA merged wit All the NAZI Intelligence , made a deal with the devil. The Evil it created is in the detail. Americans can stay to be our friends, But the American Military and Intel services have to go home, the AFD will not forget the Terror destruction against our Energy Infrastructure, of the Nordstream Pipelines. And bring the German Politicians that allowed this to happen, to Justice, as part of a Nuremberg 2.0 Trial. Also the use of the Ramstein Airforce Base will be prosecuted. The German Grundgestz, forbids to wage war from his soil. Alice Weidel has a good chance to become the new Bundeskanzler 2025 after the Endorsement from Elon Musk, Jeffrey Sachs and Tucker Carlson.
@@AsunaYuukiSAO3Wonder why even the US Americans are post WWII controlled by AIPAC. Did the great true American Henry Ford warn the Americana?
@@AsunaYuukiSAO3 The US is the ONLY country which ever needed NATO-protecttion and called for article 5
G:W Bush; "if you re not with us, you are against us"
Very, very interesting.
Your method of presenting the pros and cons is commendable! I appreciate your time, research, and cognitive information.
Here's an idea for a new US law: any US Foreign Service employee or commissioned military officer serving in Germany must subscribe to Feli from Germany. It is 'essential knowledge.'
lol, she about to get arrested from some country out there
Seems reasonable
@WNYfellow Who is your avatar?
How about a better new US law: noone can run for president without a prior minimum 4 year history of public service in any capacity from serving in politics, the military, emergency services or even basic public service like parks and recreation? That would have stopped Trump in 2016 and we wouldn't have this crap going on now!
@ Stuck on trump much?
“In 1931, the Nazi Party (then a minority in the Reichstag) proposed a ban on vivisection, but the ban failed to attract support from other political parties. By 1933, after Hitler had ascended to the Chancellery and the Nazis had consolidated control of the Reichstag, the Nazis immediately held a meeting to enact the ban on vivisection. On April 21, 1933, almost immediately after the Nazis came to power, the parliament began to pass laws for the regulation of animal slaughter.[11] On April 21, a law was passed concerning the slaughter of animals; no animals were to be slaughtered without anesthetic.”
There is probably material for a Part III of this series. While Germany's Good Samaritan Law was included already in the German Empire's penal code (copied from the French one), it was the Nazis that gave the law more teeth by upgrading failure to help a person in an emergency from a misdemeanor to a crime punishable by up to a year in prison, as it still is today. (However, this change had little practical effect. See item 3 below.)
Americans often seem to be confused about this kind of law, so some things seem worth pointing out here:
1. You only need to help within reason. Finishing your ice cream isn't more important than calling an ambulance for a person who is bleeding to death, but if you can't swim you certainly needn't jump into a river when someone is drowning.
2. The fact that you are obliged to help also gives you (limited) protection if you hurt someone or damage something while trying to help. Getting someone's heart to beat again after cardiac arrest requires very rough action that typically breaks a few ribs. You can't be sued for that.
3. The extent of the threatened punishment is in no relation to how effective such a law is. The mere fact that a Good Samaritan law exists shapes a society so that it basically never gets applied. It ensures that most people follow their natural instincts and help, and that psychopaths who don't help hide the fact rather than influencing others by publicly insisting that watching calmly while someone dies is their right.
Excellent points!
Church tax in European context is arguably as old as the church itself. It has been paid by church members in labor or other means if money was not available. In many European countries the state collects the tax for the church and in exchange receives up-to-date vital records kept by the church.
Yeah, it is not a Nazi law. The Bundesrepublik actually adopted the Weimar Republic law for this. I guess for some people everything before 1949 is Nazi law.
Belgian has chruch subsidies, but paid from general tax incomes, --> you have no say , certainly not option NOT to contribute towards it!
chruch attendency is low, and currently a lot of that money is considered more of keeping valuable chruches and such in an okay state for the next generation..
only the part were the state also pays priests and such is getting a bit more critic, certainly since the pedofile scandals in the catolic chruch..
debaptising has NO monetairy gain whatsoever, but nevertheless over 14.000 peoples asked to be debaptised in the catholic papers, out of disgust of not just the scandals themselves, but mostly of how the hierarchy of the catolique chruch spend way more time covering up then providing real support for the victums..
i myself consider debaptising myself for over 10 years now, but its no simple form here, i have made the effort yet..
@FreiherrDinkelacker direct? That you can state witch church your specific taxes paid go towards?
From WWII in the US we still have a tax on light bulbs. Light bulbs were seen then as a luxury and what was supposed to have been a temporary tax for that war, still is real.
Luxury in WWII?
@@SandfordSmythe Correct, it was determined by the federal government that light bulbs were a "luxury" item and created an excise tax for them, for the war... and the tax is still there.
Just found your channel. I studied in Freiburg in Breisgau many years ago. You bring a great perspective and you cover many sensitive topics most Americans don’t understand about German culture in an approachable way with great sensitivity.
Great episode Feli!!! I just want to say a Happy Holiday to you, Ben, and both of your families.
I was in the process of becoming Catholic when I lived in Germany, so I left the space on my application for a residence permit blank. However, this just wouldn't do! The expression on the official's face when I described myself as "voruber envangelisch" (temporarily Protestant) was priceless!
That is very interesting that Protestant in German is evangelisch.
In English, Evangelical refers to a type of Protestant religion but not all
@@stephenfisher3721 In Germany the dominant denomination of protestantism is Evangelical. There are other protestant denominations, they are just VERY VERY rare so no one ever really talks about them. Because of that, in general, (christian) people are either catholic or evangelical with a few exceptions. Also you can see a clear cut nationwide. While the south / south-west is predominantly catholic, the north / north-east is mostly evangelical (the east part not so much, since they were part of the GDR and religion didn't play that much of a role there).
@@stephenfisher3721 Been there, done that! My mother was Scottish Presbyterian, and I started off Low C of E. I just about remember my mother being confirmed and her finding bishops a very strange idea. If Elizabeth I hadn't sent John Knox packing, the Reformation might never have taken hold if I've understood the history of the Kirk aright Too bad she did - Calvinists are so miserable!
@@stephenfisher3721 The word 'German' in English also refers to one germanic people, or one germanic language, not all.
Then most of western Europe went the other way with "Alemani", a Badener tribe. Italians were the ones that got it right.
Immer mehr Kudos für dich, Felicia - so interessant und informativ ist dein Kanal. Ein Beitrag zum kulturellen Verständnis diverser gesellschafts-politischer Ursprünge und deren Niederschlag in Gesetze und Verordnungen, die zu Recht bis heute Gültigkeit haben, hebt dich über einen reinen Unterhaltungskanal weit hinaus.
Bitte weiter so . . . !
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The nazis wore shoes am I therefore required to give up shoes? Each law must be judged on its own merit not its origin.
Spot on.
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You can tell she's German because she complains a lot. The main characteristic of a German😂
The Nazis didn't invent shoes though. These are laws INVENTED by Nazis. That's the important difference you seem to have missed.
@@Beery1962 You deny that the CIA merged with Nazie Intel services ?
@@Beery1962So if the same law is invented by communists it would be better?
So you do not want animal protection because it was invented by no-no-people?
I just now subscribed. I traveled to Germany for years on business and I love the country and her people.
I must say, you speak absolutely PERFECT English with just a small hint of an accent. I look forward to your videos.
Another top class educational video from Feli 💗
Mind blown 🤯. Thanks, SuperFeli!
The U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 also adopted language directly taken from 1930s German gun laws.
The "sporting use" clause is from the 1938 German Weapons Law. It's appalling anything related to the Holocaust is in American law, but Sen. Dodd, the author of GCA68, served in Germany after the war for the Nuremberg trials and acquired a copy of the 1938 law. He had it translated by the Library of Congress for his use since he saw the German method of firearms regulation meeting his goals of unconstitutionally restricting the Second Amendment. Lots on the web about this unknown aspect of American firearms law, much of it from JPFO's research into this in the 1990s.
Very interesting and very well presented. I was stationed in Landstuhl near Kaiserslautern with the United States Army from 1978 to 1981 and didn't know much about the Nazis or German history at the time, but I've learned a lot about it since. Danke sehr.
Super Video!
I love your informational videos still as German I can learn from them.
Dear Feli, another law that the Nazis introduced is the German Compulsory Schooling, which is practically compulsory schooling in the form of compulsory attendance in school buildings. This law was retained by the Allies after World War II and incorporated into the respective school laws of the federal states. It is true that compulsory schooling was introduced by the Weimar Republic in 1919, but this Weimar Republic law still included exceptions for home learning, which were abolished by the Nazi Compulsory Schooling Law of 1938.
Also: Animal Welfare Laws & Homeschooling Prohibition Laws
It's amazing how Germany took some laws and made them sensible. And they are still going today. Love your videos, and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
There is nothing amazing about it.
I would think that most laws under Nazism and even before Nazism would be just normal laws, like forbidding theft, fraud, and assault.
Yup you need normale laws to regulate things so if something "new" comes along during the time of the nazi's they are probable good laws. (except for the add ons for certaine groups the Nazi's didn't like)
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The ban on helping someone fill out a tax return was also passed by the Nazis in 1933.
First, a professional ban was issued for Jewish tax advisors and so that they would not give someone free advice, everyone except tax advisors was forbidden from helping someone else with their tax returns. The exceptions are your own children and your wife or husband.
The law is still applied and fines are waived.
Does that mean they can't sell a German version of Turbo Tax? Does that mean that businesses like H&R Block can't operate in Germany?
What about Americans who live in Germany and are liable for American Taxes? Since they can deduct their German taxes, they have a very complicated American tax situation, and need thorough documentation for their German taxes. They surely need an advisor for their German taxes and their American taxes.
@@gregblair5139 Today it rather protects the means of the tax-consultants -that today of course can be Jewish again, too. At that time they prohibited Jews from performing several (nearly all?) professions. And so this ban should cut off the possibility to do it inofficially, instead.
(Although I didn't know about that origin in that specific case, too, -as generally many professions are only allowed to be performed with a diploma/degree in it.)
@@gregblair5139 So in the business area and what it looks like with employees who have to pay taxes in two countries, I don't know.
In any case, if you help someone with their tax return several times, that can be considered businesslike.
Of course you can help a friend or relative fill out their tax return. Only if you operate it as a business (regularly charge money for it ) you have to have a qualification which I think is very reasonable.
@@gregblair5139 we do have Apps that help with your tax return in Germany. I guess there are qualified tax advisors that have checked the programming for it’s accuracy
Auch ein schönes Beispiel:
1934 entstand eine Vorschrift, wie Klassenräume in Schulen einzurichten sind.
Die Fenster müssen auf der linken Seite sein. (damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben)
Die Fenster müssen so groß sein, daß man von jedem Platz aus ein Stück Himmel sehen kann. (ausreichend Tageslicht im Klassenzimmer)
Nach diesen Vorgaben arbeitet man immer noch.
"damit die Schüler nicht im Schatten der eigenen Hand schreiben" ... und dann haben wir überwiegend in "Hufeisen-Sitzordnung" gesessen, oder in der Grundschule auch manchmal an "Gruppentischen", d. h. die meisten Schüler sitzen nicht mehr frontal zur Tafel und mit der linken Seite zum Fenster 😂
Was ein ziemlich merkwürdiges beispiel ist, wenn man bedenkt, dass Bildung Ländersache ist und damit man immer noch nach so einer Vorschrift arbeiten kann müsste es die ja in jedem Landesgesetz separat geben, denn der Bund kann kein solches Gesetz erlassen, da er dazu nicht befugt ist.
@@rendigmor 1934 war es eben NICHT Ländersache.
Geez, where do you think the 1968 Gun Control Act came from? Answer: The NAZI WEAPONS LAW , 18 March 1938.
It brought gun serial numbers, the 4473, the phrase "Sporting Purposes", etc.
I met an Ayran Brotherhood biker who had, and wore an Adolph Hitler medal. I complimented him on some of his tattoos (Excellent artwork despite how this conversation ended up) and he thought I was a fellow traveler. The two problems were, I'm Jewish and I was waiting for a Black friend who was coming in from another club where we almost fought a bunch of bikers who sent a Prospect member to fight my friend.
I read several years ago that the Basic Law of Hong Kong passed by the British in (I think) 1960 was still the law in Hong Kong even though HK had been part of the Peopless Republic of China for several years.
The German pronunciation of Saint Nicholas is Sankt Nikolaus.
Brought to America by Hessian Mercenaries working for the British during the Revolutionary War
and mispronounced as Santa Claus.
This was very informative and interesting. I cannot get over how you can find some of these topics, without spending a good amount of time. Thanks for sharing. Have a great Christmas.
Von mir auch ein dickes Lob für deine offensichtlich große Rechercearbeit, die Du nicht nur zu diesem Thema leistest!
@@thomasp.5057 What?...is her Research Project offensive to you?...or am I misinterpreting your opinion?
This is one of the most interesting videos you have made. I knew almost none of this information. Danke sehr.
Merry Christmas Feli
Nice to see someone here locally in my hometown! Def subscribing!
Video begins at 02:32
No, it begins at 00:00
All of the stuff before 02:32 is important historical context
Thank you for the video. I can't wait for the next show.
Merry Christmas Feli Feli
I'm from Cleveland. There is a large population here.
Not every church in Germany has church tax. It's basically government enforced tithing and is somewhat needed to maintain the big old churches there. You can choose to "unregister" with your church, but it basically means you'll get excommunicated from the church if you do. My Ex was really hesitant to unregister from the Catholic church because she didn't want them to read her name out in the congregation
A lot of people stay in their church even if they don't go because as they get older they might want to get married within the church later in life. A lot of Germans I met didn't really get religious until they were retired.
Also, maybe a little interesting to some people - the Mormon church is officially not considered a Christian church in Germany and while they do collect tithing from their members, they do not do it through this government church tax.
yes, as you said: Not every church in Germany collects church tax. In fact, they are the (Roman) Catholic church, the Protestant church and a few independent, smaller churches that have made such an agreement with the state and use the government's financial administration for the collection of church tax, as a kind of membership fee from their members.
However, most of the smaller churches that are independent from the "big two church organizations", don't use that system, but raise their finances by voluntary donations, tithes, offerings (for example, in the case of Baptist churches, Mennonites churches, Pentecostal churches, 7th day Adventist churches ... and surely also the LDS / Mormon church organization that you mentioned).
So, the church tax is a method that the two big church organizations in Germany (and some small churches and religious organizations) use ... in my opinion primarily 1. in order to reduce administrative efforts by outsourcing the main part of fundraising to a state institution, and 2. have a more reliable, regular and plannable source of money, than voluntary donations would be.
Merry chritsmas 😊🎄
Frohe Weihnachten wünsche ich euch alle 🎄🎁🎅🏻👍🏻
Thanks
In the US, not only do churches not pay taxes, but donations to that church can be deducted from the taxes of the person donating.
that is also the case in Germany. Germans who pay church tax are being asked for the amount in their income tax declaration form, and the paid tax is deducted from the taxable income.
And other (voluntary) donations to churches can also be considered for the calculation of the income tax, by deducting the amount from the taxed income.
For me this means: I attend a church (in Germany) that does not collect church tax, but asks for tithes and donations. Early in each new year, I get a letter from my church that confirms how much money I have donated in the previous year, and I can then mention this number in my income tax declaration. My taxable income is reduced by that amount - in other words, for each 100€ that I donate to my church, I get back from the government about 35€ in the form of income tax reduction, so that I really only pay about 65€ of my own money... or to say it a bit different: a donation of about 300 costs me only about 200 - because the other 100 come from my income tax.
Only if you fill out long form taxes.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 I have accountant do my taxes so he can find all of the deductions for me.
based.
@ And so are donations to BLM.
In Australia we’re not asked on race, rather ethnicity.
Ethnicity is a more accurate term; it refers to your genetic heritage.
As usual another stellar video! Keep them coming😊
You are very good at teaching ! Subscribed
I would REALLY enjoy a deeper dive into naturopathy in Germany, especially sample questions on their test, and a side-by-side comparison with California's laws.
California also has a law permitting alternative health practitioners. Their main rule is that practitioners MUST inform patients of their education and training - and especially their lack thereof.
Feli, this was really informative, especially since i lived in Germany as an American and experienced the church tax. The practitioner that you mentioned in NRW, I thought performed euthanasia on these cancer patients, so the overdose was on purpose.
I just discovered your channel, and I'm enjoying it. Also, I think your English is perfect. 😊
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If they installed the first stop sign would you find that problematic?
This is very interesting and it is very easy to forget the NAZIs were a political party and had to provide a public face that was acceptable to the population. The NAZIs were horrible, but there were things they did that were politically OK. I'm a 71 YO American and have tried my best to understand how AH became the worst mass murder in history. Over time I've had many German friends who chose not to speak of the NAZI atrocities. It must be very hard to do this, but I truly believe Feli's videos enter into a discussion about the dark German history. People need to understand how Europe evolved from feudal system of Kingdoms, then into the Holy Roman Empire that lacked clear borderers. The shaping of the Modern European Nation-States has never really been settled. Wars (Ukraine-Russia) are being fought today to define the borders. Conversations like these are a step towards the German people being able to regain their heritage. The Germans deal with WW2. Americans must deal with Slavery.
1:10 correction: German territory was taken away! And that is why war has no end because one day Germany will take its territory back
The Nazis were in fact not bad at writing laws. The problems they caused lay in their intentions and actions, not in technical details. The regime was not only "evil-evil-evil" as sub-complex people understand it today or are even taught, but also very technocratic. Technocrats tend to choose their words precisely and make their meaning very clear.
As hard as it may sound: I wished that that skill would still be as strong today as it was earlier. There are lots of "banana"-laws passed today, that are formulated indifferently, leaving the judicial system to make something out of it. Or as a German proverb says: Meant well is the opposite of done well.
Dummes Zeug,was du Redest.👈
In Australia we pay a Goods and Services Tax (GST) which is 10% on most goods and services. It was introduced in 2000. This has caused cost of living pressures. Then we have Stamp Duty, this is a tax on property purchases, vehicles and some insurance policies. Adds tens of thousands of dollars right upfront when buying property. Another government overreach causing pressure on families. Fuel Excise taxes is currently 48.8 cents per litre. Another cash grab for the government making our life difficult and costly. Capital Gains Tax, another cash grab. We take the risk, we borrow the money, we pay the loan, the whole risk is on us but when you sell, the government wants a piece of the action. Totally unfair and a legalised theft of our money. There are many more taxes that annoy me, they even have death taxes. They can't leave us alone even when we die.
Law 2 resonates disturbingly with PETA's words v. their actions.
The Nazis were going back to their pagan roots.
Not a coincidence ... comparisons of animal breeding facilities to concentration camps are not infrequent from that corner.
if it was actually healthcare, they wouldn't need to call it "alternative".
Very good. I like that you do your research to bring true and non-biased information. There are still a lot of crazy laws still on the book in the USA. For example, in some states it is illegal to dance in public.
Hence the movie “Footloose” 😂
Feli, Thankyou for your videos. I've only just discovered your channel and i love it. I'm doing a Degree in language studies currently (Deutsche) And History. Germany is such an amazing country. Your videos are so interesting. could you do a video at some point highlighting cultural history of Germany?
So?
Is it more important *who* wrote a law or whether that law is good or not?
They've had the guilt beaten in to them since birth.
@@buckodonnghaile4309 guilt? You are pathetic.
Great Video Feli
I never knew that these still existed.
Merry Christmas to you
The Nazis treated animals better than humans. In fact, Hitler was a vegetarian and animal lover.
Say that to the 40 K horses they killed in Crimea
@@pfennigfuchser-97 That was in the war, and horses were a strategic resource. And by the way: They killed even more humans.
regarding church tax here in the UK we have something called "Chancel repair liability" which goes back hundreds(i believe) of years whereby land/house owners living in certain locations may be liable for the upkeep of the local church even if they do not use it
Kirchensteuer: I'm British and moved to Germany in 1972. I married a few years later and somehow found out that I'd been paying church tax the whole time I'd been in Germany. I'd never registered and was rather surprised because I'm Buddhist. I complained and my tax (Kirchensteuer) was refunded.
En tant que boudhiste, tu dois être antimilitariste.
Cela ne te dérange pas de financer l'armée britannique avec tes impôts par contre 😂
Here in England there is a saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, so if a law is good, better to keep it. And Western law is based on The Institutes of Justianian, the Roman Emperor who had 30,000 citizens locked in a stadium and killed by the army.
Church tax is no Nazi law. It was imposed to the people After the Napoleon area, when church property was expropriated
that is something different ...
"church tax" is a fee that church members pay to their respective church (and which is proportional to their income tax)
- while the "compensation" for the expropriation of property about 200 years ago are payments that the church organisations receive directly from the government, I.e. from the taxes that the federal government receives ... therefore this is paid by money from every tax payer in Germany, not only from church members.
@@tobyk.4911But the entire system you are describing was inaugurated by the prussians and not by the nazis who were Anti christians. Church after 1815 was no longer authorised then to impose taxes itself. The Payments were handed down to the church as compensation for their lost Land income
@@johannweisspfennig1310 yes, the payments to compensate the churches for the lost land began much earlier - as I already said, they are not the Church tax, but different payments.
In this video, she speaks about the "church tax," which is something completely different than the compensation payments from the government that you talk about (and that she hasn't even mentioned in the video)
Can you do one about the German Empire? I can also imagine even older laws being still relevant.
The majority of German law comes from the empire.
I didn’t find out until recently that NAZI was never the abbreviation for that party but a nickname given to it by opponents. The actual abbreviation was NSDAP which was the initials for the National Socialist German Workers Party when spelled out in German.
British PM Churchill loved mispronouncing it to tweak AH and the NSDAP.
Got this notification while I was watching the Rammstien video for Deutschland.. weird lol
Du Hast rumbles in the earbuds in the background when the notification rang my phone 🤣
Documentation about Ramstein Airbase?
@@EHonda-ds6ve No. Music video called "Deutschland" by the heavy metal group Rammstein (which is written with 2 "M"s, not one).
All I want for Christmas is to one day experience the desire, the anticipation, for anything as the dwarf
in the Sonne music video standing next in line to be spanked by Snow White.
The Nazis didn't only make laws, but they also abolished some. During their occupation of the Netherlands, they abolished the Dutch "Personele Belasting" which was a tax originating from as far back as the middle ages, which made people pay for owning things like a chimney, a flag pole, a bike, or a piano. This particular tax was never reinstalled.
For completeness we should note that with war imminent, the British government ordered all pets (dog, cats, birds) destroyed by owners or turned in to government killing centers. I can’t find evidence this was fear they’d compete for food or if the rulers used it as a test of citizen obedience. Either way a nasty abuse of power when animal companions would have been a comfort to the owners.
It was the Russians who trained dogs to run under tanks while strapped with explosives but it wasn’t very successful.
That the Nazis couldn’t evacuate 30,000 horses from Russia, provides context for this incident.
When interviewed shortly after D-Day, a German soldier was asked why he surrendered when he could easily have fallen back to regroup safely. He said, “When we saw the huge amount of troops, vehicles and material pouring onto the beaches- there were no mules, no horses… everything was mechanized. We knew the war was lost.”
Actually, the British Government did not order the destruction of pets. They issued an advice pamphlet stating "If at all possible, send or take your household animals into the country in advance of an emergency." It concluded: "If you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed."
Based on this, many people took their pets to vets, PDSA, RSPCA and Battersea dogs' home (who were all vehemently opposed to the idea), requesting that their pet be euthanised. There were no 'government killing centres' . The RSPCA and The Royal Army Veterinary Corps tried to stop this, but it is hard to contend with a panicked population. Around 750,000 pets were destroyed. Most euthanisations were carried out in late 1939 (the outbreak of the war) and late 1940 (the beginning of the Blitz).
So a government pamphlet did lead to 750,000 pets being killed, but it was not their intention.
Battersea Dogs' Home managed to feed and care for around 145,000 dogs during the war, with a permanent staff of four.
When looking into the motivation for actions committed by the British Government (or any government really), never exclude the possibility of the cock up theory.
The belief that the Wehrmacht was heavily mechanized and invincible was heavily promoted by the Nazis themselves and pro Nazi propagandists such as Charles Lindbergh. The German Army was in fact still reliant on horses and mules although obviously less so than the Polish Army. It was their strategy of utilizing air support and keeping forces mobile that worked in relative small countries such as Poland or France (which had a modern army deployed in a way that harkened back to trench warfare in WW I) or the low countries that made the Germans seem unstoppable. When they invaded the Soviet Union, a vast country with terrible or non existent roads and extreme cold, the weaknesses of their strategies became all too apparent.
@@steve3131 "The belief that the Wehrmacht was heavily mechanized and invincible was heavily promoted by the Nazis themselves and pro Nazi propagandists such as Charles Lindbergh."
Not Quite. Lindbergh was an isolationist, believing (along with a goodly percentage of the US citizenry) that if Europe can make its own mess, it can get out of it on its own, without US blood this time. That was his "Nazism" along with the fact that he was reporting German intel back to our military, along with his assistance training American flyers on long distance endurance flight techniques. Pro Nazi? Communist nonsense!
The dog mines were trained on russian tanks. So when they were sent out into the field. They of course went under those same russian tanks. :3
Das ist sehr informativ meine fraulein, danken sie fur die Geschichte lesson.
Very interesting. I just heard ( in English thank God ) on the DW channel the lady that is the head of the AFD day that a person that makes 50k Euros is taxed so much they pay half in taxes. How horrible. She also talked about how her friends from overseas that came back to Germany were shocked at how the trains are not on time and how the government was supposed to privatise the trains, but the state bought all the stocks for the train, which in reality means the trains are still owned by the government. She of course also talked about how bad immigration has been as we just recently saw with the murders and horrible injuries by the Saudi immigrant in Magedaburg. How sad.
God speed Feli. Great channel and you explain German stuff well. Regards just about 70 miles west of Cinci.
Tim.
Btw, the suspect in magdeburg is also an atheist far right AfD supporter.
@@tirex3673 : *Not Far-Right. Just Center-Right.*
@ I am surprised you could read my comment, considering I can‘t. And no, far right is correct.
@@tirex3673 : *Nothing to do with Far-Right unless they are advocating for "classical" Liberalism.*
Thank for adding law #3! I remember mentioning that in the comments of the last video! Nice to see it getting noticed, although it is a highly discussed topic, ngl! 🙂
But as a medical doctor, I think you know my stance on this topic.
Back in 1939 it was also established, because many doctors were of Jewish origin and that did not work with the Nazi regime. So to be able to provide basic care quickly, they came up with that law.
Bad people can make good laws, they just tend not to follow their own laws.
In 1919, the church tax was enshrined in the Weimar Constitution. Article 137, paragraph 6 states: "Religious societies, which are corporations under public law, are entitled to levy taxes on the basis of the civil tax lists in accordance with the provisions of state law."
This was before the Nazi government
The de wikipedia page gives some excellent information about this. I don't know why she's claiming it came from the National Socialist government.
People tend to say "it's a Nazi Law" because certain Laws (or even just single paragraphs) were adopted by the BRD after the fall of the 3rd Reich and the formation of the BRD and say that as if it's a bad thing. But those people in general don't know that the 3rd Reich used Legislation by former German Nations like the Weimarer Republik or the Kaiserreich and the BND just adopted those (often unchanged by the Nazis) laws into it's own legislation. One popular example being the Einkommensteuergesetz which existed before the Nazis came into power. But because the BRD uses a Einkommensteuergesetz it of course has to be a) a Nazi law and b) because it's a Nazi law it has to be inherently evil.
But the Einkommensteuergesetz existed before and the biggest changes the Nazis made was implementing old jurisprudence and decisions of the Reichsfinanzhof into written law (decisions made decades before the Nazis came into power and that are still used today when a case is judged).
@@rendigmor Feli seems to have her very own version of German history.
AH's love of animals is still felt to this day across the West. Germany was one of the very first countries to implement animal welfare laws through the 30s and 40s, outlawing animal cruelty. This is now the standard for most of Europe and America. Germany has contributed more than most nations to our civilization, equaling even Greece and Rome. Even the parts of our history which are verboten for us to embrace is staying with us in so many positive ways. ❤️ 🇩🇪
But look, were has all this gotten us into ? the worst crises after 1945, our land is being deindustrialized, our Middleclass rapidly declining, our population being exchanged, our Industry moving out in droves, only the Public Sector and our Luegen Presse stays the course. There is nothing civilized about our Woke Liberal Politics. The next election will put an end to this madness.
Your voice is amazing. Frohe Weihnachten, Feli! Ich Liebe Diche. Vom Australie
It's bad manners to wear a hat in doors anywhere. Especially while eating, church or court.
Unless you are in a synagoge.
I remember, when visiting the St. Peters church in Rome i was wearing a cap and one of these Swiss guard men, of course wearing a helmet, told me (rather impolite btw.) to take off my cap. At this moment a group of catholic priests walked by, of course all wearing their normal headgear..
@grewdpastor that's not a hat.
Happy Holidays!
America removed church taxes in the 1830s. People mistakenly believe the U.S. Constitution outlawed state churches, but historically the Constitution only outlawed FEDERAL interference or favoring of churches. Some of the states still had established churches long after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, including its Bill of Rights. Massachusetts was the last state to do away with its state church. Interestingly, the Inquisition in Europe came to an end about this time. BTW, the reason Nazis supported animal welfare and environmentalism is that they were a version of Progressives. All Nazis were Progressives (national SOCIALISTS), but of course not all Progressives were Nazis.
I wonder if the 14th amendment would have outlawed state religions.
@@senbassador No, originally it only applied a small part of the Bill of Rights -- the Blackstone rights -- to the states. The U.S. Supreme Court during the 1940s, however, reinterpreted the 14th Amendment so as to apply ALL the Bill of Rights to the states. The end result was to give itself way more power than it ever had before under the Constitution..
thank you Feli,❤❤❤ for that information, it's always great to hear from you
Church tax is a great idea -- just like taxing cigarettes, it helps disincentivise doing something harmful ... a 'sin tax', you might say ...
Regarding the animal abuse law, Hitler was an animal lover and owned more than one dog. So this should not be a shock that he supported anti cruelty legislation when it came to animals.
The chuch tax is literally for that exact purpose, to get people to leave the church.
Well that’s bad for the churches. Of course, just because someone takes their name off the role, doesn’t mean they can’t attend church.
Well, contrast the church tax - 8 or 8 % of income tax - with many US churches demanding 10% of income.
PIA sounds like an excellent service. Thanks!
The training of "Heilpraktiker" only says what they are not allowed to do. Or what only doctors are allowed to do.
Otherwise it is allowed to sell sugar balls at overpriced prices.
Or tap water in small bottles to claim healing effects.
Your research is college level and I could imagine you doing online teaching with Khan Academy or Coursera. Happy Holidays and New Year to you, Ben, and your families!!