Google translate of a LONG article from Epoch Times in Germany from the 2nd Symposium

Not terribly relevant but interesting for some context on what is likely to become available in the next few days

Republished in full from here:

Dr. Frank: "A firewall against reality" – Corona symposia bring reality to the Bundestag (epochtimes.de)

GERMANY

2ND CORONA SYMPOSIUM

Dr. Frank: "A firewall against reality" – Corona symposia bring reality to the Bundestag

Last weekend, the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag invited to the 2nd Corona Symposium. Experts such as Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, Prof. Stefan Homburg and author Dr. Gunter Frank attended. The Epoch Times asked Dr. Frank for his impressions. And then, suddenly, Peter Altmeier stood in front of him ...

General practitioner Dr. Gunter Frank at the 2nd Corona Symposium of the AfD in the German Bundestag on November 11, 2023.Photo: Matthias Kehrein/Epoch Times

By Alexander WallaschNovember 14, 2023

Yesterday you were a speaker at the AfD's second Corona Symposium in the German Bundestag. Is it allowed to participate in AfD symposia?

I think that's a very, very important question. It's about this firewall against the right. I also addressed it in the symposium. Many of those present, Professor Sönnichsen, Professor Homburg, Professor Bhakdi and myself, who are committed to expertise and rational solutions, have experienced being labelled as right-wing. In today's parlance, this means being a right-wing extremist or a Nazi. There's no need to change that. I think it is absolutely presumptuous to abuse the victims of National Socialism in order to discredit unpopular opinions. That's unbelievable!

The journalist Johannes Gross once said that the longer the Hitler Reich is over, the more bravely the Germans fight against Hitler. No, the firewall against the right is becoming more and more a firewall against reality. And the AfD is the party that takes on the Corona reality and thus finally pays tribute to the victims of a catastrophic pandemic policy.

We were fully aware – and I spoke on behalf of many people – that we were here at an AfD event. We all have different political backgrounds, or none at all. I am also fully aware that there are AfD positions that I do not share. But the AfD is a democratic party, an elected party. To claim otherwise is simply wrong and dishonest.

The AfD is the only party to bring the Corona reality to the Bundestag. And that's why we're seizing the opportunity and taking part. Because if we were to adopt this firewall, then we would also be blocking out reality. Any party that is democratically elected can ask all of us who were in this symposium if we inform them and give lectures. If it's just the AfD at the moment, then it's just the AfD. And that is why we say: For us, this firewall does not exist, because it is a firewall against reality.

And the reality is our patients who are suffering, who have died, who have suffered unspeakable disadvantages from a catastrophic pandemic policy that must not be repeated. Of course, there will now be accusations that Bhakdi, Homburg or I are sitting somewhere with right-wingers. But it's about reality, it's the only thing we're committed to it.

The mainstream media doesn't report at all. Sucharit Bhakdi, on the other hand, declares that this meeting will one day go down in the history books. What is the truth?

This is exactly the part that has to go down in the history books, that the official media, the fourth estate in the state, as the saying goes, plus all parties except the AfD, deny the greatest crisis – which I call crime – in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The biggest mistake that has occurred since the founding of this state is completely denied.

But Mr Lauterbach has admitted mistakes.

(Laughs) Excuse me? I'm not aware of that. Of course, he tries to admit a bit of error, but it wasn't 'a bit of a mistake', it was a complete failure of science and control bodies such as the Paul Ehrlich Institute. At the symposium, I presented content that is so unbelievable that the scales should fall from everyone's eyes that we have to bring these people to justice, because the next attacks of this kind are directly planned. And pandemic congresses are already being held again, viruses are being named as dangerous, which previously had something to do with bioweapons laboratories. It's all there, it's all documented.

For example, could Mr. Kubicki and Ms. Wagenknecht – the two of them also expressed criticism during the Corona years – have they been present there yesterday to show their presence? Why didn't this happen?

As far as I know, the AfD has invited everyone, really everyone. That, too, is this firewall against the right. Any politician from another party who would have appeared there would have received an unparalleled shitstorm, would have been ostracized by his own party because he wanted to find out about the truth – or more precisely, reality. You have to imagine that. And that's what other parties have said, so to speak.

At this point, Dr. Gunter Frank briefly breaks off the conversation we have with him at the Berlin train station. In front of him on the platform, he discovers Peter Altmaier (CDU), who held various ministerial posts under Angela Merkel, most recently that of Minister of Economic Affairs until 2021.

Dr. Frank addresses ex-minister Altmaier directly and reproaches him that the co-vaccination campaign is a crime. Altmaier agrees to the conversation, possibly recognizing Dr. Frank, they have already sat together on a talk show on public television. Altmaier asks Frank to please tell Mr. Lauterbach, he is the minister. The general practitioner also confronts the former minister with the fact that the CDU is still stonewalling today as far as the reappraisal is concerned.

After a brief exchange of words, Peter Altmeier has to board his train. Dr. Frank tells him that this will go down in the history books as the greatest failure of the Federal Republic of Germany. And he wouldn't need to smile like that. Then Peter Altmaier has disappeared and we can continue our conversation.

Isn't the firewall you spoke of also one against Bhakdi, Homburg and Frank?

And that's when it becomes clear what the firewall actually is. I repeat: it is a wall against reality in order not to have to face one's own failures in the end. This is then disguised as right-wing, which can certainly be described as a trivialization of the Holocaust. At least if you simply instrumentalize the victims of National Socialism in order not to have to listen to unpleasant opinions 80 years later. It's a shame.

The media does not write anything about this symposium.

But we have media like yours, which have become so big and important that they reach millions of people. I do not expect ARD and ZDF to provide any significant impetus for enlightenment. Only when it can no longer be avoided will they sit on it and act as enlighteners. Such symposia are extremely important. Because they carry reality into the Bundestag, where it took place.

It is important that we do not conduct this enlightenment in some back room or in dark basements, but in the city halls and in the Bundestag. Next week I will be at a Corona symposium of the WerteUnion in Erfurt's town hall. That's where it belongs. And that means that something is happening, more and more people are coming into the centers of power.

Do you have an international comparison? Is Germany a pioneer in this area, or are we still lagging behind in coming to terms with the past?

n my perception, the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries are ahead of us. And that the southern countries are lagging behind Spain, Italy and the like. That's more or less how I would assess it at the moment. It's rolling in the US. It also depends a lot on who becomes president. If it's DeSantis or Kennedy – it doesn't look like it right now – then it would really pick up speed.

If it becomes Trump, he will try to shift the blame onto the Chinese and not onto himself. He trusted Anthony Fauci. That was the biggest mistake of his political career. Trump had made the rapid vaccine development possible in the first place. So it depends on the outcome of the election. But the enlightenment in the USA will come, because there it is always about money, civil law is much more likely to uncover something here than criminal law.

Wouldn't it be interesting if you had a common speaker, someone who, when the German media are not reporting, sometimes communicates such a symposium abroad? Perhaps the foreign media would like to report, if only they had the information to do so. Is there a communication problem?

Of course, colleagues like Bhakdi and Homburg are also internationally networked, but I don't know that much about that. I also can't judge the extent to which the foreign press is interested in addressing the Corona education in Germany. That's certainly an interesting thought. But it is not the case that the Corona opposition is set up here as a strong organization. In any case, it is crucial for me that something is happening everywhere, even small associations, even walkers, that it simply begins to bubble and grow everywhere, and I mean also in the parties. It's just the AfD at the moment. Sahra Wagenknecht – we'll see.

Isn't it a big omission on the part of the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance that she was not present there at the weekend? That would also be a good kick-off event to pick up people who are critical of the Corona regime. Or was the no-show already a clear demarcation?

I'm not a political scientist, I'm basically a family doctor who just makes his observations. I got to know Ms. Wagenknecht as a person who really listens and anticipates very well. I was very pleasantly taken with her. She had listened to my arguments, too. I perceive this alliance with Sahra Wagenknecht in such a way that the focus is now on organizational structures that the left-wing party offers. For me, it's a revival, a reincarnation of the left-wing party with an anti-woke approach. But even there, the firewall was discussed. As a leftist, you can't jump over this hurdle by forming a coalition with the AfD. By the way, I can't imagine that Sahra Wagenknecht will succeed in getting ex-leftists to apologize for their Corona statements. But this excludes the Corona opposition and does not offer an alternative to the alternative here. That is a problem.

What do you take away from this event?

The positive thing is, of course, that we were all together in one place. There was also a standing ovation for Sabrina Kollmorgen, an intensive care nurse. She was charged with resisting the police. But we all know from the demos that it was often the other way around. Mrs. Kollmorgen is a very petite woman. She then had her house searched because she had allegedly insulted a prosecutor in a private WhatsApp chat. At six o'clock in the morning, policemen armed to the teeth with bulletproof vests stand on their doorstep. And because she didn't want to hand over her cell phone right away, she was thrown onto the sofa, a policeman knelt down on top of her, pressed something else into her back.

There were also lawyers at the symposium who made it clear that this was political intimidation and nothing else. This woman shared her story and was then asked: Would you still get involved? And then she thinks, all the images come up in her, she thinks of her 19-year-old son, who had to experience all this. And then she says: I would do it again because it's the right thing to do. And there is the whole hall – I am almost in tears, Mr Wallasch – the hall stands up and applauds her for several minutes. This is a force that can also have an effect in the future.

Onwards!

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