From June 16 to 23, 2024, a peace camp was once again held near the US military base in Rammstein.
During this time, Stopp Airbase Rammstein organized an extensive week of action on the subject
of peace in the face of escalating war efforts.
Is another war being instigated from German soil and thus our commitment, never again war, unscrupulously broken?
Kla.tv was there live at the evening event on June 21, collected impressions and voices from the people and lets Daniele
Ganser answer this question in a short exclusive interview.
The largest US military base in Germany, Rammstein, the headquarters of the US Air Force in Europe, is
located just a few kilometers from here as the crow flies.
All drone wars in recent years, whether Pakistan, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia,
Yemen or Iraq, have been controlled from here.
Not many people know that the US administration operates over 100 other military bases in Germany.
This massive strategic military presence of the USA in Germany frightens many people.
And the explosiveness is increasing.
At the beginning of the week, the German-language online medium News, NATO, Wiesbaden becomes headquarters for Ukraine support.
And this refers to the US base in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim.
Klagemauer TV has already produced an impressive documentary on this subject.
For years, more and more people in our country have had no peace about sitting on a powder keg, so to speak.
Once again this year, hundreds of people gathered here in a peace camp as part of a peace week.
Your message?
We are active for peace.
We refuse to be enemies and we seek international solidarity and networking.
Hello, when we drive through the streets here, everything is peaceful.
It is peace.
Why a peace camp?
Why are you here today?
I can answer very personally.
I have something in my hand here.
This is a shrapnel.
My mother picked it up while it was still warm when she was 16 years old.
My mother was born in 1924.
I know from stories how war propaganda works and how people are stirred up to go to war.
And that's exactly what I see with us at the moment.
We are dominated by war propaganda and our government wants to send us to war.
Here in Germany on German soil.
And I learned as a child, never again war.
My father helped set up the Easter March movement and advised conscientious objectors.
It's clear to me that my son is not allowed to go there.
He is 27, nor is my daughter at 24, nor are any of our other children.
And the Ukrainians and Russians shouldn't go there either.
Never again war is the only tangible motto for me that can be followed in this respect.
Better to negotiate for 1000 hours than to shoot for an hour.
And Rammstein is of course a good place to demonstrate for peace, because incredibly terrible things happen here.
And I sometimes get the impression that we Germans are at the forefront when it comes to bringing war into
the world or helping others to bring war into the world.
And that doesn't have to be the case, does it?
So that's why I'm here, supporting Rammstein Peace Camp, and I'm delighted that so many people have answered the call.
Why are you here today?
Why is the peace camp important?
Hello.
So maybe it's still peaceful here now.
But firstly, not everywhere.
And secondly, things will soon no longer remain peaceful in our country if the politicians
continue with what they apparently have planned.
And I would like to show through my presence here that not everyone is simply blind to what we are told.
Super. Thank you for being there.
Top-class speakers will be taking to the stage today to talk about peace.
The journalist Christiane Reimann, the theologian, psychoanalyst and writer Eugen Drewermann and
the historian and peace researcher Daniele Ganser.
Thank you very much for being here and for being so many of you.
That makes me really happy.
And I can assure you, statistically you represent the majority.
There is a new study, an international one.
It says that not only in Germany, not only in France, not only in Great Britain, but also in the
USA, the majority is against a war against Russia.
Rammstein is the largest US military theater outside its own territory.
Drone assassinations around the world are carried out and organized from here.
Illegally. At will. Suddenly.
With the acquiescence of the Federal Republic, which pretends not to know anything about the details.
We know about it and we no longer want it to stay that way.
The message is clear.
Ms. Baerbock, we must negotiate instead of trying to ruin Russia.
We must see our own fear in the eyes of the other.
We have become murderers.
Mr. Pistorius, you can read about this in your own museum.
From experience from 1914 to 1918.
Do you seriously think that has improved?
As usual, the Second World War was merely an exacerbation of the First.
And what we have now is even worse than the entire Second World War.
Not even atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were enough.
America needs hydrogen bombs.
America does not yet need enough neutron bombs.
Killing must always be able to increase.
And now perhaps the very worst.
We need people who want to get involved.
16-year-old girls, 18-year-olds should be ready to learn how to kill people, on command.
It happens in every barracks yard in the world.
That is why I speak for peace and against war.
Not for purely political, economic or other reasons.
But in principle.
War is inhumanity as the source of all immorality.
Man at the workbench.
When you come back and tell her to pull hand grenades and cannon barrels instead of cooking utensils and water pipes.
Man at the workbench says no.
Mother in Germany.
Mother in the Ukraine.
When you come back and tell her to bear children.
Girls for the hospitals.
Boys for the trenches.
Mother in Germany.
Mother in Ukraine say no.
Man in the lab.
When they come to you and tell you to invent the new death for the old life.
Man in the lab say no.
And pastors in the pulpit.
From whom I don't hear a single word these days, not even approval for Pope Francis.
Man in the pulpit.
When they come back and tell you to justify the war and bless the weapons.
Man in the pulpit say no.
Because if you don't say no, it will all come back and it will always be worse than it ever was.
Thank you for being here. . .
Viola Amherd and Ignazio Cassis have now organized a peace conference in June.
You heard about the war in Ukraine and you didn't invite the Russians.
So, this is another sign, if you sometimes wonder, that we are living in an age of confusion,
then the answer is very clear: Yes
It's like when you have a marital dispute and you say, yes, I'm an expert, I can help you, but I'll only invite the wife.
And then we'll settle it.
It doesn't work, everyone knows that.
And that's what we've just had in Switzerland.
And actually the analysis is that you can say that the Americans violated the UN ban on
violence because they overthrew the government.
You can't do that.
This is a clear violation of the UN ban on violence.
And the Russians violated the ban on the use of force because they invaded in the 22nd century. Now you put 14 and 22
together and say, well, then Germany could just stay neutral.
You can remain neutral and say there are two different groups here, we mediate.
And one advantage of this would be that we could break away from the Americans.
But that would mean that Germany should leave NATO.
I would perhaps like to conclude like this.
When you realize that it is not a smart way to go to war with the Americans, then the scales will fall from your eyes.
Then it's not so complicated.
It's not that complicated.
Instead, they simply say, well, the Americans have already bombed Vietnam.
They overthrew the government in Iran.
They overthrew the government in Guatemala.
You overthrew the government in Chile.
They bombed Libya, of course.
They manipulated the elections in Italy.
In 1948, you weren't born yet.
But then it went on and on.
It is a very long series of wars that the Americans have waged.
And strategically, my main concern here in Germany is actually to raise awareness that there are wonderful people in the USA.
They are also part of the human family.
Like the Russians and the Ukrainians and the Palestinians and the Israelis.
But you also have to know that a very small group in the USA is extremely violent. Extremely.
And you shouldn't follow them blindly.
Mr. Ganser, for a long time the maxim in Germany and in politics was that Germany must never go to war again.
How do you view this maxim with regard to current statements by German politicians?
Yes, I am worried.
I think the maxim is still correct.
Germany should never go to war again.
And if you now say, yes, no, we are supplying weapons to Ukraine and Ukraine is also allowed to
bomb Russia with these weapons, then that's fine.
I think such statements are wrong.
I would find it much more valuable or more correct if Germany were to say, no, we want to work for peace.
We want to make sure that the Ukrainians and the Russians sit around a negotiating table and that they stop killing each other.
In other words, that should actually be Germany's role.
Not to incite wars and, above all, not to incite wars, yes, that's the Taurus leak that we heard, that officers of the
Bundeswehr, the air force, said that we could also bomb Russia.
This is going completely in the wrong direction.
That worries me.
And I also believe that the majority of people in Germany definitely don't want that.
What did, what did you say?
What do German politicians actually have to say here in Rammstein?
What do you have to say about NATO?
Do you have any room for maneuver at all?
So it depends on how you look at it.
Officially, Germany is a sovereign country.
And if it is a sovereign country, then German politicians could withdraw from NATO and say that we no
longer want to be part of this military alliance.
Then German politicians, for example Chancellor Olaf Scholz, could press for the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream
Pipelines on July 26, September 27, 2022 to be investigated.
But if you look, you have to see, and of course it is painful to see, that Olaf Scholz is not
pushing for an investigation into this terrorist attack.
And I would actually like this to be cleared up, because this was a major terrorist attack that
also caused a lot of damage to the German economy.
And here one already has the feeling that German sovereignty is restricted.
And that's why my position is that all American soldiers should actually leave Germany.
There are 38,000 at the moment.
And that Rammstein Air Base should be closed.
We are a few meters away from the air base.
Even if that's my position now, I know it won't happen tomorrow.
But I believe it is valuable when more and more people dare to express this position publicly.
In other words, we don't have to expect so much from politicians now.
We have to become active ourselves.
We have to wake up ourselves, so to speak, and pass on our desire, our will, so to speak.
Yes, I think the people have to decide for themselves what they want.
There is a section of the population in Germany that thinks the Americans are our good friends and mean well by us.
But then I would really deal with the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
If you then come to the conclusion, okay, the Americans have different interests to some extent than we do, then
you have to think about how we can assert our interests.
Because it would actually be interesting for Germany to import cheap natural gas from Russia and have a flourishing economy.
But now we have a situation where Germany is actually in danger of suddenly becoming
more and more involved in the war with Ukraine,
because Ukrainian soldiers were trained on American military bases in Germany.
And historically speaking, the Americans dragged Germany into the war when they attacked Serbia in
1999, in Afghanistan in 2001 and in Syria in 2015.
And I simply say that these are smaller countries, Serbia, Afghanistan and Syria.
Russia is a completely different situation.
And that would be the moment to wake up and say never again war, not even war with Russia, we don't want that.
You always talk about the human family, that's a nice image.
What solution do you see?
What can we do as humans?
So by the term human family I mean that both Ukrainians and Russians, both Americans and Germans,
both Serbs and Afghans belong to the human family.
Because war propaganda always portrays one group as evil and then argues that if we kill the bad guys, we'll be better off.
That's how it's always told.
And that has actually always been the case throughout history.
So I just realized that it was a very old number.
And I actually want to use the term "human family" to show that you shouldn't kill anyone at all and that all this
propaganda about terrorists living in Afghanistan and the Russians being evil from birth should be discarded,
It's all just war propaganda, that you take it off and then say, no, there are wonderful people living in Afghanistan,
Wonderful people live in Russia, wonderful people live in Ukraine, wonderful people live in Germany.
In other words, that you don't allow yourself to be divided.
Because war propaganda can cause a great deal of damage in people's hearts and minds if they suddenly
think that this or that nation is fundamentally evil.
That was always a lie.
Yes, and then ultimately lose your fear of the other person too.
Mr. Ganser, thank you very much for this short interview.
They said love, truth and courage.
And my wish for your life is that you can still span these three pegs far apart.
Nice, thank you.
Have a nice day.
Coming soon in the program, don't miss it
The NATO documentary
Peace in Europe - does it need NATO?
In-depth research reveals NATO's warmongering and diversionary maneuvers.
Broadcast date Saturday, July 6, 2024, 7:45 p.m. on kla-tv.