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Interview with antifa about the „Baseballschlägerjahre“ in the 90s where young radicalised Nazis would attack people with baseball bats and how important it is to preserve this movement history, and it's an interview from _now_, from 2026, and I find it kind of amazing and very German that he somehow describes the entire thing in the past tense??? like all of it just reads like a description of my experience—the attacks, the nazi movements splintering and moving to East Germany to organise in a more concentrated way, the very young teenagers doing the violence and getting off with little to no sentences—it's stuff that I've watched the past few years ,or, uh, last week, for example, but they still have this tone of "back in the 90s violence was real, wasn't that bad"?

the only difference I can tell between now and the situation he describes is that they use retractable batons now rather than baseball bats. Teleskopschlagstockjähre.