World Control: Germany

Government chases homeschool family

Members of a German homeschooling family who fled to Austria, where the activity remains legal, have moved again – this time to Canada – to escape continuing government actions that now are the subject of a protest lodged at the European Court of Human Rights.
Source: WorldNetDailey, June 30,2008

Mandatory ‘integration’ of children pursued

Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has commented on the issue on a blog, noting the government "has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole."
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 14, 2008

Open season on homeschoolers

The government letter is addressed to "School Administrations of State and Private Schools" and its subject line specifies "Custody withdrawal for violation of mandatory school attendance."
"The [German] court determined that the parents’ refusal to send their children to either a state or a state approved private school is a misuse of parental custody rights, which violates the well-being of the child," the letter, dated just a few weeks ago, said, "and which requires actions by the family court. …"
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 11, 2008

Parents race to escape before court takes kids

A homeschooling family is trying to arrange an escape from Germany before authorities can complete a court action that would give the state custody of their five children, according to a pro-family advocacy organization.
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 5, 2008

Parents to beg for their own grocery money

Homeschooling parents who have been battling the government over their children’s education are heading into court today to beg permission to use some of their own money for groceries, after authorities froze their personal and business bank accounts.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 15, 2007

American missionaries targeted for deportation

The German government is targeting an American family of Baptist missionaries for deportation because they belong to a group that refuses "to give their children over to the state school system," according to an international homeschool support organization.
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 26, 2007

German Government Publication Promotes Incestuous Pedophilia as Healthy Sex Ed

Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for
Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age.
Source: Life Site, July 30, 2007

Prosecutor wants homeschool parents jailed

A federal prosecutor in the German state of Hesse has announced plans to seek three-month prison terms for a mother and father who homeschool their six children, even though the family already has paid fines for violating the nation’s Hitler-era homeschooling ban and made plans to move.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 19, 2007

Court gives Melissa back to family

A German appeals court has ordered legal custody of Melissa Busekros, the teenager who was taken from her home by a police squad and detained in a psychiatric hospital for being homeschooled, be returned to her family because she no longer is in danger.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 17, 2007

3 families face fines, frozen accounts

Three families have released a letter pleading with Christians worldwide for prayer because of their "difficulties" – fines equal to thousands of dollars, frozen bank accounts and even the threat of the
sale of the family home – because they homeschool their children.
Source: April 12, 2007

5 ‘well-educated’ kids put in state custody

Five "well-educated" children have been ordered into state custody by a court that applied to a second family a ruling taking a 15-year-old homeschooler from her family and sending her to a psychiatric ward.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 22, 2007

Girl, 15, begs to return to homeschooling parents

A teenager taken from her home and parents by German police officers and institionalized in a psychiatric ward for homeschooling is pleading with the international community for help so she can return home.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 15, 2007

Psych tests ordered for homeschooling parents

A German appeals court has not only affirmed a lower court’s decision that ripped a 15-year-old homeschooler from her family and subjected her to a forced stay in a psychiatric hospital because she is homeschooled, but also ordered her parents to be given psychiatric evaluations, an international rights organization says.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 13, 2007

3rd Reich homeschool prohibition defended

In a response published on a blog to a letter expressing concern about Melissa’s case, Wolfgang Drautz, consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany, said that "the public has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion or motivated by different world views and in integrating minorities into the population as a whole.
Source: WorldNetDaily, 28, 2007

Homeschool family told to give up 5 other kids

German authorities who sent 15 uniformed police officers to take custody of a 15-year-old girl who committed the crime of being homeschooled now have suggested a solution that, in their minds, would "resolve" the situation: the parents should give up custody of their other five children.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 25, 2007

Court-ordered foster care replaces psych ward

"Melissa called her parents today to tell them she was moved to another mental ward. She was then moved to a ‘clearing house’ and finally to a foster family; but she was unable to tell them where she is now," said a statement from the the International Human Rights Group, which has tried to involve the international community in the attack on homeschooling in Germany.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 20, 2007

Homeschool student disappears from psych ward

Officials who work in support of homeschoolers in Germany, even though it is illegal there, notified WND that Melissa Busekros, in a "new escalation," was moved from the psychiatric hospital where she had been held for more than a week "to an unknown place."
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 13, 2007

Police take home-taught student to psych ward

The news of nearly two dozen officials and uniformed police officers physically taking the teen from her home in front of her shocked family is just the latest horror story to come out of Germany, where homeschooling was placed under a ban by Adolf Hitler and der Fuhrer’s law still is enforced.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 3, 2007

Government declares war on homeschooling families

The German government, in a throwback to its National Socialist Workers Party heritage, has declared war on homeschool families, promising to bring those with banned "religious convictions" into alignment with the state regulations
Source: WorldNetDaily, December 21, 2006

‘Pesky religion freedoms obstruct German society’

A nation where the law bans homeschooling, and police have been known to physically haul children from their homes to public school facilities, now has a judicial official who says those pesky religious rights are getting in the way of society.
Source: WorldNetDaily, December 15, 2006

Achtung! Germany drags homeschool kids to class

A Nazi-era law requiring all children to attend public school, to avoid "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions" that could be taught by parents at home, apparently is triggering a Nazi-like response from police.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 25, 2006

Campaign to overturn law that jailed homeschool mom

The campaign from the Home School Legal Defense Association follows word that since homeschooling never has been legalized in Germany since Hitler banned it, a mother was arrested and detained on such charges.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 26, 2006

A day in court for German schoolgirl who insulted teacher

A schoolgirl faces prosecution and possible house arrest for allegedly insulting her teacher in a case that will strike fear into unruly classrooms across Germany. Achim Jülicher, 38, who teaches German, reported Jacqueline Kirsch, 17, to police for undermining his authority after she declared in front of classmates that he was “not right in the head”.
Source: news.telegraph, December 11, 2005

German Court: Muslim Students Must Swim

The deeply religious Muslim parents of the 11-year-old student were trying to prevent their son from attending swimming classes, where he would mix with girls in bathing suits. They filed a complaint in a Düsseldorf court against school officials. But the court rejected their case, saying that religious beliefs are not a reason to prevent children from attending swimming classes and said that the boy must attend them in the future.
Source: DW-World.de, June 1, 2005

Doo-ing duty: Dogs to be DNA tested?

Is it the latest case of government waste, or just politicians "taking care of business?"
In the German city of Dresden, lawmakers believe they’re doo-ing their duty as they consider collecting DNA samples from dogs to help make sure owners clean up after their pets.
WorldNetDaily, March 31, 2005

Paying by Fingerprint at the Supermarket

Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out, saving the time spent scrabbling for coins or cards.
Source: MyWay, March 14, 2005

Germany continues targeting homeschoolers

German Christians who choose to homeschool their children are coming under continued enforcement action by the government, with one group of families fearful they may lose custody of their kids.
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 21, 2005

Hitler’s mentally ill relative was sent to gas chamber

The Holocaust unleashed by Adolf Hilter even touched his own family, it emerged yesterday, as evidence was uncovered that one of the Nazi leader’s relatives was murdered by the German state.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was the great-grandchild of the sister of Hitler’s paternal grandmother. She became one of thousands of mentally ill people exterminated as part of a systematic campaign to eliminate or sterilise those deemed socially undesirable. Aged 49 at her death, Aloisia, who is thought to have suffered from schizophrenia, was gassed to death at Hartheim Castle near the northern Austrian city of Linz on 6 December 1940.
Source: The Independent (online), January 19, 2005

Judges try to snatch homeschoolers

Germans who choose to homeschool their children are coming under increasing pressure from the state with some families escaping the European Union nation to keep from having their children taken from them.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 8, 2004

Iris scanning to begin at German airport

A test of an iris-scanning system is set to begin Saturday at the Frankfurt, Germany, airport, as part of a project involving 18 European countries.
Source: ZDNet, February 13, 2004