Joschka Fischer's speech on the NATO mission in Kosovo

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Joschka Fischer, 2001

The speech Joschka Fischer for NATO intervention in Kosovo was a speech on the so-called Kosovo special party , a special party congress of the Party of the Greens on May 13, 1999 in Bielefeld . Joschka Fischer was Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in a red-green federal government , as well as President of the Council of the European Union .

In this speech, Fischer legitimized the first German war mission after the Second World War , when German troops took part in NATO's mission in the Kosovo war . Among other things, Fischer expressed himself as follows in the speech:

“ Auschwitz is incomparable. But I stand on two principles, never again war, never again Auschwitz, never again genocide , never again fascism . For me, both belong together. "

Fischer 's comparison of Auschwitz was criticized by the journalist Barbara Supp in Der Spiegel : “And then Joschka Fischer spoke of a new Auschwitz that the Serb Milošević was planning and that could only be prevented by war. Auschwitz - the ultimate means. The war in Kosovo, even though international law spoke against it, was fair and without alternative. It was called 'humanitarian intervention'. Anyone who opposed it would be an ally of the Serbian murderers. "

Brigadier General Heinz Loquai , dismissed by Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping , commented on the comparisons between Fischer and Scharping:

“Here I really have to control myself, because the comparison with Auschwitz and the situation in Kosovo is a monstrous assertion. As a German, one has to be ashamed that German ministers have done such a thing, because a normal person, a normal German, will be summoned to court if he belittles Auschwitz to such an extent. And that a German minister spoke of concentration camps in Kosovo is on the same line, because concentration camps are institutions of a specific historical situation, namely the National Socialist period in Germany. And I think it's basically outrageous that Germans in particular have chosen these comparisons. "

The Rambouillet Castle near Paris . Place of unsuccessful negotiations between Yugoslavia and Kosovar Albanians .

At the time, those who agreed to the NATO action - in contrast to Fischer - were not aware of all parts of the Rambouillet Treaty : "Fischer did not use all diplomatic leeway in the negotiations and withheld information about the treaty." ( Angelika Beer )

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  1. ↑ cf. gruene.de : Interview with Reinhard Bütikofer about the Kosovo special party conference in Bielefeld 1999 (October 25, 2010).
  2. ↑ Wording: Excerpts from the Fischer speech. In: Spiegel Online. May 13, 1999, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Supp: The dirty truth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 2010, p. 25 ( online - April 26, 2010 ).
  4. ↑ cit. after It started with a lie - ag-friedensforschung.de (accessed on August 21, 2018); see. Marcel Baumann: Absolutely evil ?: The logic of killing and the moral legitimacy of terrorism (Springer Texts in Statistics) 2013, p.208 f.
  5. ↑ cf. Appendix B: Status of Multi-National Military Implementation Force ; NATO wanted war ; The Rambouillet Treaty: An Unacceptable Occupation Statute for Yugoslavia?
  6. ↑ Andreas Zumach: The Rambouillet lie: What did Joschka Fischer know? In: taz, the daily newspaper. April 12, 1999, accessed September 23, 2017 .