The journalist Harald Martenstein leaves the Berliner daily mirrorafter the newspaper last week its controversial Column “Nazi Comparisons” deleted from the internet. He explains that in his column on the front page of the newspaper this Sunday . It’s no secret, writes Martenstein, “that the editor-in-chief of the daily mirror distanced himself in all forms from one of my texts and deleted it. I wasn’t involved in that decision.” Something like that usually means you break up. “I made that decision.”
Martensteinwho is also a columnist in Timemagazine is had on February 6th in daily mirror Written about wearing “unvaccinated” armbands in the form of “Jewish stars” at demos against the Corona measures. Demonstrators wanted to “make themselves total victims,” Martenstein wrote: “It’s always presumptuous, even trivializing, it’s hard for the survivors to endure.” However, the wearers are “certainly not anti-Semitic”, after all they identify with the Jews who were persecuted during the Nazi era.
At this point of view there was like that daily mirror– Editor-in-Chief then last week in a statement announced, “both within the editorial team and from readers” strong criticism. The public prosecutor’s office is now increasingly investigating opponents of vaccination who compare themselves to the Jews persecuted under National Socialism – which downplays the Holocaust. Martenstein’s column shouldn’t have been published in this way; this conclusion was reached “after detailed discussions – also with scientists and those affected”. It is part of the self-image of the daily mirrorto represent a wide range of opinions. But “not everything that can legally be said is in line with the tone of the daily mirror appropriate,” it says literally.
Martenstein, on the other hand, criticizes the deletion and stands by his statements: “I haven’t changed my mind. Maybe I’m wrong. Where you think only you own the truth, I’m out of place”. The journalist has worked for the Berlin regional newspaper since 1988.