An open letter from the magazine “Emma” caused a stir last week. Intellectuals asked Olaf Scholz not to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine. One of the signers is now distancing herself.
Katja Müller-Lange is a writer, intellectual – and in this role also signed a controversial open letter to Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The letter from “Emma” said, among other things, that the delivery of “large quantities of heavy weapons [..] make Germany itself a party to the war”. A claim denied by the federal government.
Another passage in the letter was particularly heavily criticized: “We warn against a double error: Firstly, that the responsibility for the danger of an escalation to a nuclear conflict lies solely with the original aggressor and not even those who, with their eyes wide open, provide him with a motive for possibly criminal action.To put it plainly: anyone who supports Ukraine in defending against an unjustified war of aggression by Russia is making themselves a warmonger in the eyes of “Emma” – and is causing a nuclear war themselves.
Letter on the Ukraine war: 26 first signatories
The letter was signed by a total of 26 first signatories, including Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer, Ranga Yogeshwar, Dieter Nuhr and Lars Eidinger. In a guest article for the “SZ”, Müller-Lange now turns against the letter – not because of the public criticism, but because the letter “torments her conscience”.
She signed the letter because, born in East Berlin in 1951, she herself was very afraid of the threat. She feared “Russians: Putin, Lavrov, Patrushev, Bortnikov … who know how to exploit our fears, both old and new, and turn them into an effective weapon.”
During a three-day visit to Estonia, however, it became clear to her: “It would have been more honest if I, privately or “publicly”, had limited myself to simply admitting my fear – or just to shamefully conceal it.” She was particularly impressed by meeting an Estonian whom she asked about his own fear of Russia. His answer: “Of course we’re afraid, but we support Ukraine. Even though we fear the Russians – or maybe because of that.”
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Source: Stern
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