1871 gründeten sie ihr Reich als Besatzungsmacht im okkupierten Versailles. Im Krieg gegen die Franzosen brachten sich die Deutschen endlich unter eine Krone. Might all these things somehow be connected? In this peculiar German history? * They wear the clothes of the Paris Communards who took bullets to the chest, stomach, and legs for the idea of equality. Silently and without so much as a word or gesture. Honi soit qui mal y pense: surely the public subsidies were not an instance of colonialist economic stimulus? In any case, the children keep dropping dead. The plan was to build airships that would ferry German products to remote markets. Palm trees tower beneath a fake sky where Cargolifter, a widely hyped business venture that was supposed to be a flagship of the East German economic recovery, ran aground. As though they kept being executed before the exotic décors of a fake paradise of prosperity. A pattern was set.Īnd today? Today, German children drop dead one after another at Tropical Islands, an indoor holiday resort. Then came the German colonial adventures with their genocides and deportations. It was finally defeated by mass executions carried out with Prussian assistance. Among the young nation’s first heroic deeds was aiding the French reaction in crushing the Paris Commune, one of the most progressive political movements of its century.

They founded their empire in 1871 as the occupying power sitting in Versailles. In a war against France, the Germans finally found a crown to bow to.

Cargolifter heute