While i have no doubt about RTs malign interests, this article goes way over the top in claiming "a wholesale rewriting of recent history"
The manipulative RT article questioned what commonality existed between these two events and criticised this association as a form of historical relativism, arguing that they were fundamentally different in nature and context. The author – perhaps in an act of projection of his own – suggested that such comparisons diluted the specific historical significance of Kristallnacht and served contemporary political agendas rather than genuine remembrance.
The two events are extremely differently. Germans were never subject to discrimination, occupation and war crimes by the Jews attacked in 1938 and subsequently genocided until 1945. To put these two events together is relativising the Holocaust and in particular the Germans as the main perpetrators of antisemitic hate and violence. This is part of a longer lasting strategy to shift the blame of antisemitism onto immigrants from muslim countries, despite the overwhelming majority of antisemitic crimes in Germany being committed by white Neo-nazi Germans.
The RT piece also highlighted an alleged shift in the Greens’ stance on immigration and Islam since 2015. According to the piece, the Greens – initially welcoming towards refugees – have been forced by recent events to move towards a more critical position towards Islamism, aligning to some extent with right-wing sentiments.
The now broken government coalition including the Greens passed a law to make deportations easier, including severe impacts on civil rights of asylum seekers, allowing for longer detentions to ensure deportation, raids on homes at night and more surveillance. This law was passed just a week after mass deportation plans in a meeting of the fascist AfD, parts of the reactionary CDU and know Neo-nazis were disclosed by investigative journalists. Really the timing couldn't have been more foretelling. Also in rewriting the Citizenship laws it was made easier to become a German citizen, but also easier to have your citizenship revoked, if your opinions are not aligned with the government, in particular on Israel.
The author sarcastically questioned whether this emphasis on ‘diversity’ extended to the tolerance of differing political opinions, suggesting that dissenting voices are being marginalised in Germany under the guise of promoting unity.
The parties of the government coalition, the fascist AfD and the CDU just passed a resolution demanding that Universities, Museums and other government funded entities should work together with the interior intelligence to ensure that noone should get funding or space where it cannot be ensured "without a doubt" that they are not "antisemitic". This serves to silence anyone critical of Israel in Germany. The minister of education tried to get the funding of scientists revoked and have them investigated by the police after signing an open letter that demanded university campuses to be protected as places of free speech, after some universities had the police violently beat up peaceful protest camps.
https://www.972mag.com/german-jews-antizionism-censorship/
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-11-12/ty-article-magazine/.premium/jewish-artists-warn-against-germanys-new-absurdist-antisemitism-resolution/00000193-1ff2-d707-a9d3-7ffb787f0000
https://www.courthousenews.com/german-education-minister-scandal-highlights-tense-restrictive-climate-around-gaza/
For police violence against protests just put "berlin police violence demonstrations" in your favorite search engine. There is countless of videos from the past year, primarily against Gaza protests but also instance of violence against climate activists, like police officers gleefully breaking the wrist of an already detained person in spring.
In the end of September, RT Deutsch claimed that German unification was just the annexation (Anschluss) by the Federal Republic of Germany’s of the GDR.
RT seeks to give the impression of something similar to that of Nazi-German / Austria in 1938 by using the infamous word ‘Anschluss’ in this context instead of reunification (Wiedervereinigung).
This is just bullshit. Annexation has the best equivalent in the German word "Annektion". Also the "reunification" legally was not an "unification". It was legally a "Beitritt" - "accession" which also can be translated to "Anschluss". It used the same old Article 23 of the constitution like the "Beitritt" of the Saarland in 1957.
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/accession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification#Constitutional_merger
The key problem and much of the dissent with the "reunification" was that it did not bring two political parts together to form something new, like envisioned in the constitution, but was rushed instead to have the GDR just join the Federal Republic which lead to an economic crisis and practically all Elites such as CEOs, high ranking government officials or judges to be from Western Germany. This is the source of much discontent and still 35 years later you can see the old border in economic maps.
To conclude: The author is ignorant of some of the real problems that Russia is exploiting here for their own propaganda means. In some aspects the author used similarly insincere tactics. The claim that these examples would suffice for "a wholesale rewriting of recent history" shows the authors ignorance towards recent German history and the real problems arising from it. As it is an official EU organization writing these articles they are subject to the same shift to the right and far right we see in most EU countries, which would explain some of their ignorance to the strong shift to the right of all of German mainstream politics, in particular the Green party.