LITHUANIA - After 80 years, the Nazis are back again

With the ceremonial commissioning of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
In a martial ceremony with Leopard tanks, howitzers, fighter planes and marching soldiers, Merz and Pistorius celebrated the first permanent deployment of German combat troops abroad since the Second World War - as a “service for peace, freedom and security”. In reality, it is part of comprehensive preparations for war against Russia.
The symbolism of the location could not have been clearer: Lithuania, a former Soviet territory, just a few hundred kilometers from the Russian border. 80 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks manned by German soldiers are once again rolling eastwards.
The historical and political break that the German elites were forced to make after the fall of the Third Reich is being systematically reversed. German imperialism is on the march again, returning to the sites of its worst crimes.
Lithuania in particular was a central scene of Nazi atrocities. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in June 1941, local collaborators actively participated in the extermination of the Jewish population.