@syvash
The farmers’ associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.
@syvash
In the former GDR, former LPG board members distinguished themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the privatization of cooperative farms, often enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary members using dubious legal tricks, and were welcomed with open arms by West German associations.
That, and also the “right-wing” political forces (There may well be an overlap)
@syvash
The farmers’ associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.
@syvash
In the former GDR, former LPG board members distinguished themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the privatization of cooperative farms, often enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary members using dubious legal tricks, and were welcomed with open arms by West German associations.
@syvash
The article is in German, but I think you’ll find ways and means to translate it.😉
https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das/_erste/2019/01/2019014/_akte/_d/_bauernlobby.html
Cool, thanks
German is my second foreign language so I can read it
Yeah, the whole reintegration of east Germany went really… peculiarly. I still can’t believe the SED was (mostly) just rebranded as die Linke.