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German Men 17-45 Must Get Permission to Leave the Country for More Than 3 Months
Germany passed a law requiring German men aged 17 to 45, 26% of the population, to obtain explicit written permission from the government before leaving the country for more than 3 months. It’s a step before conscription.
Mr. Prochnow notes that the East Germans under Russian rule were not allowed to leave the country and travel abroad. It was even worse than that. I knew people in East Germany who had to get permission to leave their sector.
There is a concern that this situation is reminiscent of past events. The author of the post below said it is a significant structural change, adding that two of the most brutal dictatorships took over Germany because the population learned to be obedient.
“It fits into a broader pattern of ever-expanding state control in Germany. Increased surveillance, tighter regulation, pressure on free expression, broad censorship, and increasing interventions in areas once considered private are no longer isolated trends. They are becoming the norm in a country that was once known as the land of poets and thinkers. Goethe, Schiller, and Kant would turn in their graves if they could witness the steady decline of fundamental freedoms.
“Equally striking is the lack of resistance among generally obedient Germans. Measures that in other countries, such as the U.S., would trigger massive public debate and widespread opposition are met in Germany with submissive silence. A society with a deeply ingrained Untertan mentality accepts such encroachments without protest and, in doing so, lowers its own threshold for further restrictions, effectively inviting the state to become even more authoritarian,” Porchnow writes.
I’m not so sure it would stir that much resistance in the U.S.. The U.S. caved during the pandemic.
Porchnow continues:
“Once established, such measures tend to persist and expand. This was also evident during the COVID period, when Germany built a police-state-like system of control and suppression that it never fully dismantled afterward. Germany itself has experienced this even more dramatically before. Over the past century, two of history’s most brutal dictatorships were able to seize power in Germany because the population remained obedient and refused to resist early enough.”
He said Germany has never successfully resisted authoritarianism and that this crosses a line.
Germany is moving in a direction that should concern anyone who values individual liberty. A new law requires German men between 17 and 45 years old, nearly ten million people or about 26 percent of the population, to obtain explicit written permission from the government before… pic.twitter.com/MYgFk42Y2F
— Torsten Prochnow (@TorstenProchnow) April 4, 2026
The Telegraph explains:
“The government has introduced a new military service scheme this year that stops short of conscription but requires men born from 2008 onwards to take a medical exam and fill in a survey about their fitness for service.
It has emerged that a clause in the law also requires men aged between 17 and 45 to obtain a permit from the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, before leaving the country for extended periods.”
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