Germany’s Moral Conundrum

Picture the scene: A few hundred neo-Nazis and far-right extremists, including tattooed skinheads, proudly wave the flags of the late 19th-century German Empire. They have gathered in opposition to a much larger march: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer parade that proudly waves the rainbow flag.

The one movement wants to bring Germany back to militaristic authoritarian rule. The other promotes the indoctrination of children, gender mutilation and other perversions.

This standoff has become remarkably common. The neo-Nazis are outnumbered by perverts. In 2024, some 400 far-right demonstrators confronted a “pride” parade of around 19,000 people in Leipzig, Saxony.

The only group that opposes the pride parades more are Islamic extremists. One of them rammed a van into a crowd in Berlin on July 25, killing one and injuring 29. That attack was condemned by both the mainstream media and the far right—albeit for different reasons.

A Neo-Nazi in a Dress

That same month, Sven Liebich was recaptured after escaping to the Czech Republic. After his sentencing last year, the neo-Nazi changed his legal gender to expose the absurdity of the state. Hence German law enforcement transferred him to a women’s prison in Chemnitz, Saxony. However, two days later, Tagesschau reported that the women’s prison had rejected him, “so she was transferred to a men’s prison.” “She” is a neo-Nazi with facial hair, high-and-tight haircut, red lipstick and women’s clothing.

What would you do if right-wing extremists were the only group standing up against society’s moral sickness and absurdity?

The supposedly conservative Christian Democratic Union is a strong supporter of the lgbtq agenda. The very same week that Liebich made headlines, one of the party’s top “conservative” politicians caused a scandal.

“Jens Spahn and his husband have become parents,” the German media celebrated on July 16. Of course, a homosexual couple can’t produce children, and surrogacy is illegal in Germany. The mother is from the United States, and Spahn’s homosexual partner is reportedly the biological father.

“As a gay man and a Christian, I personally find it very difficult to come to terms with the idea of a ‘rented womb,’” Spahn wrote in 2015. But now this homosexual “Christian” had “rented” a womb. He was forced to resign—not because he is homosexual and therefore unwelcome in the “Christian” party; not because they oppose him raising a child in a perverted household—but because his party disapproves of surrogacy.

If you have a problem with this man’s lifestyle, you are the problem, in the eyes of Germany’s elite.

“Over the past two weeks, we have experienced homophobia in very different forms, but on two occasions in its most repugnant form,” former top German politician Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on July 27 about the Islamic attack on the homosexual parade and Spahn’s resignation. Concerning the latter, he said, “I found the most vile insults online and you really had to wonder what kind of people these were who expressed themselves accordingly” (Land in Sicht podcast).

Apparently, if you have strong opinions about a homosexual couple adopting a baby, you are vile and maybe should fear someone coming after you.

Perhaps that is why some Germans turn to the Alternative für Deutschland. Indeed, the far-right party is campaigning in Saxony-Anhalt with the declaration: “Only from the union of a man and a woman do children—and thus future generations—come into being.” Well and good—yet party chief Alice Weidel lives with her lesbian partner and two “sons” in Switzerland.

Widespread Moral Sickness

Some Germans who want someone to confront these insane perversions praise Adolf Hitler. But they ignore the fact that neither Hitler nor his top advisers were moral exemplars. “Murderers, pimps, homosexuals, perverts, drug addicts or just plain rowdies were all the same to [Hitler] if they served his purposes” (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich).

The moral sickness of the political elite reflects and then amplifies the moral sickness of the people.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development wrote in 2023 referring to an ipsos study: “Assuming no overlap between non-heterosexual and non-cisgender people, the share of lgbti+ individuals in the German population may be as high as 14 percent or 11.6 million people (the equivalent of the population of Belgium).”

This moral sickness can be traced to root causes in German society and history.

Twenty-five years ago, Germany legalized prostitution. It has since become the “brothel of Europe,” Bundestag President Julia Klöckner said last year. According to the Federal Statistical Office, there were 32,300 registered prostitutes in Germany at the end of 2024; only 5,600 of them were German citizens. Researchers estimate that the number of unregistered prostitutes could be as high as 1 million.

Prostitution was a major moral sickness that plagued Germany between the world wars. The war left women without husbands and providers, which led them to give themselves over to prostitution. William Manchester described the time well in his biography of Winston Churchill: “Over 2 million young German women were destitute widows. The more desperate (and attractive) of them became prostitutes, seeking prey in the alleys near the Hauptbahnhof. Among them were muscular whores with whips and mothers in their early 30s, teamed with their teenaged daughters to offer Mutter-und-Tochter sex. Tourists were shocked by the more infamous night spots.”

One perversion led to the next. Manchester quotes Austrian author Stefan Zweig: “Along the Kurfürstendamm powdered and rouged young men sauntered, and in the dimly lit bars one might see men of the world of finance courting drunken sailors”; while at transvestite balls, “hundreds of men costumed as women and hundreds of women as men danced under the benevolent eye of the police.”

“Berlin was, in fact, conspicuous for its lack of any virtue whatever,” Manchester concluded. “It had become the new Babylon

Germany today is once again heading the way of Babylon of old.

The popular current television series Babylon Berlin depicts the capital city during Germany’s Weimar Republic in 1929. Producers recognized the biblical and the historical accounts of the ancient city as a perfect description of Weimar Berlin. “This Berlin is a Moloch; sin, corruption and violence lurk around every corner, as in the myth surrounding the biblical city,” cultural journalist Jens Balkenborg noted. The Bible calls Babylon a “whore” because of the imperial capital city’s gross immorality.

Little do these producers know how accurate their description is. Ancient Babylon was founded by Nimrod (Genesis 10) as “a hotbed of corruption and immorality” (Good News, April 1980). Nimrod, in a relationship with his own mother, invented a morally corrupt religion that led to a morally corrupt people. Ever since, Babylon in the Bible has stood for false religion mixed with corrupt politics and immorality.

Asshur worked closely with Nimrod. Asshur’s descendants, the warlike Assyrians, adopted Babylon’s system. Assyria’s German descendants share its qualities (request a free copy of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire).

The Bible describes not only the sins of ancient Babylon, but also the immoralities of our modern day that adopted the same system. Revelation 18 prophesies of the fall of this all-engulfing Babylonian system and pleads with the people of our generation: “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (verse 4).

Germany’s Babylonian perversion is fertile ground for the fulfillment of a key Bible prophecy. When “the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up,” Daniel 8:23 prophesies for the end time. This leader is also called a “vile person” in Daniel 11:21. The sins of our world, of America and Britain and also of Germany, are enabling the rise of this man.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explained in the January 2025 issue: “Moffatt says this ‘vile person’ is ‘a despicable creature.’ This terrible man is about to take control!”