So this is a story, which I tend to question, and I'll leave it to you to believe/disbelieve.
Out in Dresden.....far east extreme location of Germany and the site which was fire-bombed in mid-Feb of 1945....it was believed that 25,000 of the townspeople were dead by the end of the 'fire'. Some folks, without a lot of factual evidence, even put the numbers at 100,000 dead.
Over the years, there's been various sentiments over the bombing (being unnecessary) or that it went beyond normal war targeting.
The statue got yanked down last week....in the middle of the night.
Suggested guilty party? Well....Antifa in Germany....claimed they were the ones who did it. Reason? They view the dead as 'perpetrators', not 'victims'.
Problem now? Generally, there's a lot of hype in Dresden that the statue was part of some healing process, and this 'yanking' was not thoughtful of the healing process.
My general view? True Antifa (going back to the 1930s) were hard-core Communist types, with a pro-Soviet agenda (KPD). If you go around Germany today.....they exist in different clubs (cells) and there's supposedly no national core. They generally do things to get a reaction out of people.
The idea that this might be 'club' of Antifa that had some Russian agenda in mind.....to just stir up things? I'd give it a better than 50-percent chance.
The possibility that some group of far-right AfD Party folks blended over into a Antifa group? Wild idea but you can't discount it entirely.
So, all I can say....is that some statue in a park within Dresden got yanked-down, and some folks are peeved. In the midst of this....some folks claim credit. Then you just stand there....wondering what the true story is about.
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