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Well, that's the rise of the right-wing politics in Germany for you. Expect more of that if voters stick to this.

• herbst 1y ago
  That excessive border control been going on since 2015
  • gambiting 1y ago
    I just think that a lot of it is for the show, you know? I crossed the Polish-German border in January of this year and there was a gigantic queue to cross, we waited almost 3 hours which wasn't great with a toddler, but anyway - I expected a full on inspection or at least a document check like there used to be.......but no, there were just a few guards waving cars through, no one was checking anything, looked like they had 4 inspections bays set up so I guess they do pull cars in for a check but there was no one there when we passed......so I was like, what did we just wait 3 hours for? Just so some dude could glance at our car for 10 seconds as we drive past? How does that improve border security in the slightest?
  • martin_a 1y ago
    Not that much control. And only in some places. It's a show of forces, doesn't do much.
    • herbst 1y ago
      Do you know Walserberg? I haven't passed Walserberg once in the last 10 years without a machine gun in my face. Passing it maybe once a year usually from Austria to Germany. Afaik the other way is easier. I know I can just drive a hour more to drive around it where there is no active control but police cars hidden in bushes in the whole German area. I am not used to stuff like this, for me it's a creepy experience every time. Edit:// just remembered they recently started to do the same on the Swiss border around Basel. Whatever Germans think that's not normal within shengen. I usually don't see anyone at all on french or Italian borders, especially not young army forces with machines guns
      • martin_a 1y ago
        I went from Munich to Italy regularly from 2015-2019, haven't been controlled once at any of the borders. Have seen French border police (sometimes) at the German-French border down here near Freiburg but not the German police. But yes, German police was present in Basel some weeks ago when I crossed there. Although they had two cars they controlled and let everyone else pass in the long line that had formed, no matter the car plates. So not sure if there's really that much to it.
• antonymoose 1y ago
  And the far-left communist East German government was well known for its border control so?
  • martin_a 1y ago
    Obvious derailing is obvious, you know that your comment doesn't make any sense here.