GERMANY STILL PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: German Shop Owner Bans Jews From Store.

Sixty-year-old Hans Velten Reisch has been the owner of a small specialist shop at 63 Duburger Street in Flensburg, Germany, since 2016. The shop sells technical literature, focusing on original workshop manuals for cars and motorcycles. A week ago, on Wednesday, September 17, Reisch posted a sign in the front window of his store reading: “Juden haben hier Hausverbot!!! Nichts persönliches. auch kein Antisemitismus. kann euch nur nicht ausstehen.” (English: “Jews are banned from here!!! Nothing personal. Also no antisemitism. I just can’t stand you.”)

The sign posted by Reisch evokes a disturbing similarity to the signs that were placed in Jewish storefronts in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, before the outbreak of WWII. The public signs banning Jews after Hitler rose to power were the first stages of Nazi persecution, which eventually led to mass deportations and the systematic murder of six million Jews.

If you’re putting up signs that read “Jews are banned from here,” it’s definitely time to ask yourself, “Are we the baddies?”