There is currently no polite tone in the Federal Foreign Ministry. The insulting poem may have been sobering for the chief diplomat.
K 60 years had passed since the defeat of Nazi Germany when the Foreign Office began to come to terms with its own contribution to the Holocaust and the war of annihilation. In 2005, an “Independent Historians Commission” was set up. The one presented five years later Report certified the specialist criticism provided evidence of a “high level of personnel continuity with the Third Reich” in office.
Perhaps it was this pace and the commitment to coming to terms with one’s own dirty history that attracted current Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul when he took office in May last year let say: “I know what to expect here. An absolutely excellent, highly motivated and unconditionally loyal staff.”
Well, Joe Wadephul wasn’t quite right about that. Because an employee of his agency wrote verses in April 2025 and placed them in the AA’s staff newspaper at the beginning of the year (although this is a bit unsavory internAA titled organ will probably survive the “basic sober setting of priorities” also announced by Wadephul?), which can be seen as highly motivated (in the sense of deeply rooted) following: absolutely disloyal to Wadephul’s predecessor Annalena Baerbock and formally absolutely unexcellent. But, at least – the AA was able to come to terms with the Baerbock era much more quickly than the Nazi era: because of “setting priorities”!
Now, since Robert Habeck is also sung about in the work entitled “Ken & Barbie” by an employee who has now been identified as a vice consul in Romania with the pseudonym SIGGIG (“heating off / sweater on, self-knitted / from man to man”), one has to ask: Hasn’t Habeck already followed suit? For example: “This fetish-like eating of sausages by Markus Söder is not politics.” Or, in the diction of SIGGIG: “Sausage in / nothing comes out / political, Markus, / your oven is off” – that wasn’t nice either! And Söder is still in politics, Habeck is not.
Difficult, everything – but also banal. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, on the other hand, initiated the historians’ commission at the time. Eggs and bags of paint were also kicked or thrown after this – from man to man.
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