Christmas is supposed to be a magical time in Europe.
Supposed to.
Especially in those fairytale medieval places like Germany, blessed by amazing scenic rivers and the Alps, with that mountainous, crisp Christmas air that curls down from either the Arctic or off the snow and glacier-covered slopes.
Dang. Even cities like Cologne, nestled up to bustling waterways, were made for drone shots at Christmas.
STUNNING Christmas market in Germany!
We should import more Islamists until one of them crashes into it with a SUlCIDE B0MB!
Cultural enrichment 🎄☪️🇩🇪😍💣✨🥷💖 pic.twitter.com/OlNST4rgz3
— Naomi Seibt (@NaomiSeibt) December 1, 2025
Showstoppers.
Good night, my lovely friends! ❤️
Today was pure Christmas magic in Mainz, Germany 🇩🇪✨
The Christmas markets were absolutely buzzing – steaming Glühwein, twinkling lights everywhere, and that cozy holiday feeling you can only get in a German Weihnachtsmarkt. pic.twitter.com/P3XxiB5NJE— 🌍Travel_with_me (@Trader2nomad) December 1, 2025
Sadly, some of the security now required in order to keep market goers marginally safe has become too expensive for the towns that traditionally held these lovely markets every season.
Christmas in Germany looks like a war zone.
Barricades, fences… Nothing says holiday spirit like feeling like a prisoner at the Christmas market. pic.twitter.com/4wtJEXjnlP
— F̳̿͟͞l̳̿͟͞i̳̿͟͞c̳̿͟͞k̳̿͟͞ ™ (@Flick1_) December 2, 2025
That Magdeburg Christmas Market, site of a horrific car-ramming terror attack last year, was entirely canceled as the terrorist accused of running down all those innocent people is on trial at the moment.
A man has gone on trial in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on charges of murdering six people and attempting to murder hundreds more by deliberately ploughing his SUV into a packed Christmas market last December.
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 51, a psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia, appeared in court on Monday wearing handcuffs and with his feet shackled, accompanied by armed police. He will be held in a bullet-proof glass case throughout the trial.
In a lengthy indictment read out over several hours, the chief public prosecutor, Matthias Böttcher, said the defendant had acted “with the intention of killing an indeterminately large number of people”, when, on 20 December 2024, he “deliberately drove his 2-tonne, 340-horsepower car into a large number of pedestrians”.
I can only assume they didn’t want to offer targets for any other Islamic lunatic with inflamed sensibilities over the legal proceedings. So everyone loses again.
Some of Germany’s uninvited arrivals were celebrating, too, and they seem to have an issue with boundaries. As in, they have none, while you are expected to maintain whatever they set as theirs.
This is also the time last year when Syria fell, and Bashar al-Assad was chased out of the country, so multitudes of Syrians still in Germany have taken to the areas adjacent to Christmas markets to hoot and holler.
‼️Syrer kapern Berliner Weihnachtsmarkt
Erschreckende Bilder von deutschen Weihnachtsmärkten! Am Wochenende feierten mehr als 3.000 Menschen am Berliner Alexanderplatz den ersten Jahrestag des Sturzes von Assad, gleich neben dem Weihnachtsmarkt. Ähnliche Demos gab es auch in… pic.twitter.com/mA4n7lolQg
— Falk 💙🇩🇪✌🏻 (@falktf) December 8, 2025
Syrians Storm Berlin Christmas Market
Shocking Images from German Christmas Markets! Over the weekend, more than 3,000 people celebrated the first anniversary of Assad’s fall at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, right next to the Christmas market. Similar demos took place in other cities like Leipzig or Essen, where even more than 10,000 Syrians participated instead of the planned 2,500.
The Christmas Market in Stuttgart was also a target.
Weihnachtsmarkt in Stuttgart. Gilt als einer der schönsten Weihnachtsmärkte in Deutschland pic.twitter.com/UwMRPO5A6N
— John Leal 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇮🇱 🇺🇾 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 (@johnlealo) December 8, 2025
Christmas market in Stuttgart. Regarded as one of the most beautiful Christmas markets in Germany.
I’d say I guess they don’t have anything better to do, but they really don’t. As of last January, an estimated 42% of Syrian refugees were employed.
As the fourteen-year-long Syrian civil war has ended, there has been significant pressure building on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government to send this group home. What’s the excuse not to go now? The war’s over – go back and help rebuild your own country.
For his part, the mealy-mouthed chancellor is supposedly on board with repatriating many of them, especially with the populist Alternativ for Germany (AfD) party breathing down his neck in polls.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a simple message for many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who found sanctuary in Germany during their country’s long and brutal civil war: It’s time to go back to Syria.
In reality, it will be hard for Merz to compel a large share of the roughly one million Syrians living in Germany to leave. But under pressure from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, whose leaders vow to forcibly return Syrian refugees en masse, the chancellor is taking a harder line on Germany’s Syrian population, and says he’ll work with Syria’s president, former rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, to do so.
“The civil war in Syria is over,” Merz said earlier this week. “There are now no longer any grounds for asylum in Germany, which means we can begin repatriating people.”
Merz’s comments reflect his latest push to move his conservatives sharply to the right on the AfD’s signature issue of migration. Until now, the broad strategy doesn’t appear to have worked, with the AfD only rising in popularity and coming in slightly ahead of Merz’s conservatives in many recent polls.
There are nearly a million Syrians living in Germany at the moment, which, as one person put it, is more than in the entire Syrian armed forces.
Many of them have been in Germany since early in the conflict and have no intention of ever leaving Germany, come hell, high water, or the end of the war, even though they choose to maintain their Syrian national identities. It’s pretty sweet having it both ways, and they are going to play on the guilt-ridden German national consciousness for all it’s worth.
“Mama, are we going back to Syria now?”
That’s the question children are starting to ask at home, said lawyer Nahla Osman, as the societal debate about whether Syrian refugees should now return after nearly 14 years of civil war has become a topic of discussion in schools and kindergartens. The Hesse-based lawyer heads the board of the German Syrian Aid Association, an umbrella group representing many Syrian aid organizations in Europe.
“Unfortunately, we have heard that children are being told: ‘You are Syrian, go back.’ Many children are reluctant to even speak Arabic now. But on the other side, we also have many neighbors, initiatives and associations saying ‘You are a part of Germany, we support you’,” Osman said this week in an online press conference hosted by Mediendienst Integration, a Berlin-based research platform for journalists focusing on migration, integration and asylum.
The AfD is still gaining in popularity thanks to the obstinacy of elected and ruling officials in dealing decisively with the immigration issue on any level.
There was an absolutely astonishing letter signed by 1100 or so school teachers in the German state of Hesse, causing a stir about what is happening in schools there as far as pupils go. Thanks to the immigrant flood, now half of the children in the school system under the age of 6 are foreigners.
More than 1,000 teachers in the German state of Hesse have called for comprehensive changes in an incendiary letter, which has been delivered to the state’s Ministry of Culture. In the letter, they state that many elementary school children are not able to complete simple tasks such as tying their shoes or use toilet paper.
“Keeping order, recognizing and adhering to rules, using the toilet independently,“ are all listed as tasks students cannot do in the new resolution, which includes using toilet paper themselves.
Students can also no longer “cut, glue, sit (upright), or tie their shoes,“ the report reads, which was reported widely in the German media, including Welt.
Citing the letter, Junge Freiheit also reports that “independent personal hygiene is not always a given – colleagues even reported students who did not know how to use toilet paper.”
…The damning letter comes at a time when Hesse is experiencing unprecedented mass immigration, including into its school system. Already in 2022, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration reported that an estimated 50 percent of all children under the age of 6 were foreigners or had a foreign background. In the last three years since the report, many of these children have entered the elementary school system.
Teachers also report in the letter that they need to spend an enormous amount of time teaching children simple skills, many that were once taken for granted.
The Syrians are determined to stay in Germany, while those Syrians who were sheltering in Turkey have returned to Syria.
Thousands of Syrians gathered in Berlin yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s fall.
Many Syrian refugees have returned to Syria from Turkey but nearly all of the Syrians who moved to Europe during the civil war have stayed there.
Why the difference? pic.twitter.com/VzAyFs377D
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 8, 2025
Well…huh.
I have kind of a feeling the Turks weren’t willing to wipe pre-school little butts and teach tykes how to tie their shoes, among other shortcomings, as hosts go.
I’m just stabbing in the dark here.
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