Taken by surprise, and marooned, that's how the employees of the Hotel Maritim feel now in Halle.
The Hotel has been made into an accommodation for refugees.
The employees learned from the media that the hotel shut down operations, and as of today, most don't know what's gong to happen to them now.
From a four-star hotel to a refugee reception centre.
Our reporters are on location.
The Maritim Hotel in Halle last Thursday.
Police cars are positioned. [Germany's Fourth Reich MO. Nice.]
Employees are gathered at a side entrance.
The hotel has ceased all operations effective immediately.
Male
They just, they made this all without consultation with us, right over our heads.
Visitors and people who own businesses in the hotel are dismissed and told to leave.
Female
Yesterday, as I came in for the late shift, I learned that from today, I am not allowed to enter my business anymore and that I cannot serve any more customers.
Since last week, nothing is how it used to be here anymore.
In one heave-ho action, they transformed a four-star hotel into a refugee centre.
Employees only learned of this from the media at the beginning of September.
The Great Refugee Crisis.
It arrived in the midst of the Maritim staff.
Andreas Lehmann is the puzzled chairman of the workers' council.
We accompany him on his last day to his place of employment.
He has worked in the Hotel industry for 37 years.
He was the night-shift auditor at the hotel reception. Now he's out of work.
"Yes, I am angry, that my employment has been terminated. I don't know ...
I am seething. I don't know how I'm supposed to act."
Last Thursday he met with his colleagues at the hotel that now isn't one anymore.
About fifty colleagues have gathered.
Britt Heidenreich is there, too. It is her birthday today, of all days.
She is 42 years old. For 25 Years, she has worked at the Maritim as a waitress.
Britt Heidenreich
"I don't think anyone expected this.
Until the 5th of September when we had to learn of this through the press.
How do we deal with this ... We are trying to process it. We didn't want to believe this for the longest time, but meanwhile ... this is the bitter truth."
"Employees were informed from the very beginning of the repurposing of the hotel, and they were offered compensatory places of work says the Maritim Corporation, when being asked.
But, obviously, this had never reached the employees. They feel marooned.
Michael Schwammberger has worked at the hotel since 1985 as a chef.
Male
"I don't have anything to say, it's all done."
Reporter
How do you feel treated by your employer? How long have you worked for them?
Female
"Forty-one years. Forty-one years. I started here as an apprentice when I was 16. And now they pull the rug out from underneath our feet, just like that."
Reporter
The staff walk away from a workers' assembly meeting.
But there they also won't learn what is going to happen with them now.
They are angry that now, suddenly, they here everywhere that the hotel wasn't profitable anyway.
The Hotel Maritim, built 1968, had always been regarded as a modern carte de visite for the city of Halle.
Three-hundred-and-ten (310) single rooms were considered hard to manage, and with a revenue goal of 3-million euros per year, money was strictly budgeted.
But from now on, the Maritim Corporationwill earn 3-million euros with refugees every year.
A three-year rental contract has been signed with the county of Sachsen-Anhalt.
The country was desperately seeking for refugees facilities.
Male
"They say they were under pressure, but I have to say, they made those problems themselves.
That we have to suffer for these problems created by politicians ... that's very sad."
Politics under pressure. How much so shows in the tempo.
On September 10th, the contract was ready to be signed.
On October 1st, the first refugees arrived.
A hotel was transformed into a temporary address for refugees.
But when the first buses arrived, the welcome was scornful.
Protests. The usual suspects. People hiding behind banner, not facing the reality of a world full of refugees.
Seventeen thousand asylum seekers were taken into Saschsen-Anhalt county alone this year.
The centre for refugees processing in Halberstadt is hopelessly overwhelmed.
The hotel is supposed to be bring some relief.
It has been planned that up to 700 people will live here.
This has nothing to do with luxury accommodation in a four-star hotel.
The small one-bed rooms are being occupied by up to five people.
Rumour's that the refugees are enjoying an exclusive kitchen are propaganda from the internet.
While the refugees move in, the business owns have to say goodbye to the hotel.
The proprietors of the hair salon and the beauty salon were caught off guard, as well, by the closing.
Since 1st of October, the clientèle can't come back onto the property.
The salon owner Karin Luschke feels completely let down by politicians and the Maritim Corporation.
Karin Luschke
"Nobody helps. Nobody cares. We have nothing to say.
They do everything for the refugees, which doesn't mean I'm angry at the refugees, in no way.
But they should've treated us differently.
They should have talked to us differently.
Not from one day to the next."
Reporter
Also finished are the infant swimming courses at the hotel's own swimming pool.
The trainer Kathrin Zah rented space as here, but she is out of work as well now.
She is disappointed, but she's not angry.
Especially, not at the refugees.
Kathrin Zah
"Oh, well, this is certainly a difficult situation for Germany to find adequate housing for the refugees, where they can live under humane conditions.
But on the other hand, that people are being put out in the street, unemployed; that other people who helped build this hotel, like the swimming pool, that they can't use these structures anymore, to figure out the situation, I'm sure it was hard.
I just find it disappointing how hastily everything went down."
Reporter
This kid and his family from Iraq know nothing of th frustration behind the curtains.
What takes place in and at the hotel is being watched closely, by Helmut Geier, directly opposite.
The 80-year-old has seen a lot as a seaman from the German marines.
But whatever happens right now in front of his door, it touches him.
Helmut Geier
"I am just happy that these people have a place to sleep, yes? I mean they have been fleeing, doesn't matter where they come from, but at least now they have sort of arrived somewhere.
I think that's pretty nice.
Reporter
Refugees need help, and they need a place to stay.
But for the Hotel staff anger and frustration remains that neither the Hotel Corporation nor the politicians made an effort to talk to them honestly and promptly.
A few weeks ago, before the staff had gotten a taste of the refugee crisis, when some of them were housed as guests.
Andreas Lehmann and his colleagues would've been willing to engage in helping.
"Surely we could've found a solution where we could've helped with the care for refugees, but they decided all that over our heads. Now we're not allowed to ... So now ... it's over."
Ex-Maritim-Hotel: so far is not the only application for asylum, Bundeswehr
October 28, 2015 | Miscellaneous | 1 Comment
Through the onslaught of refugees, the authorities are overloaded. This can be seen well by the example of Halle (Saale).
Thus far no application has been made by the 639 people living in the country receiving device in hazardous Maritim hotel people. Since Tuesday, 18 comrades of the Bundeswehr on the spot, which should take care of the identification of refugees. These include fingerprint, image and personal collection. In addition, get the people living there a house card, also be created files. The there is namely previously also not yet. Only in April 2016 hearing is scheduled.
Even with the right of the Saale city allocated asylum seekers it looks similar. Currently 1,499 asylum seekers living in Halle, 1,372 of which have still can not apply.
Hungarian PM blames Soros for fueling refugee crisis in Europe
Published time: 30 Oct, 2015 20:46
The Hungarian Prime Minister has lashed out at billionaire George Soros, criticizing the support he has expressed towards refugees from the Middle East heading to Europe, saying that he undermines stability on the continent.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that George Soros, an American billionaire and human rights advocate, was responsible for the ongoing refugee crisis.Soros belongs to a group of “activists” that encourages migrants to head to Europe and thus intentionally aggravates the situation, Orban said.
“His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle,” Orban said in an interview on public radio station Kossuth, according to Bloomberg. “These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”
German government are total dummkopfs and assholes.
What they're doing to their own people is criminal.
The report by this German kick-me-harder masochistic messaging program is off its f*cking head:
"Protests. The usual suspects. People hiding behind banner, not facing the reality of a world full of refugees."
What kind of a complicit media c*cksucker says that about their fellow countrymen, who bear the brunt of the extensive social and financial costs of this apocalypse of refugee and third-world economic immigrant blowback that's invading Europe by the multiples of thousands per day (every day), thanks to Angela Merkel and the US-led serial military intervention fiasco abroad, and the subsequent 'refugees welcome' policy, promoted by the Merkel, the UN, the EU and the likes of NGO network sponsor George Soros, furthering the destruction of Germany and the rest of Europe?
The reality is: it is not incumbent upon the German people or the European peoples to destroy their homelands, to self-destruct, to be sacrificed on the altar of US imperialism, to be sacrificed on behalf of messianic 'humanitarian' neoliberal (and deluded Trotskyite) serving ideology, or to be destroyed for the 'sake' of a bottomless pit of third-world chaos and poverty (along with the results of unchecked, irrational third-world reproduction), however much the policy of self-destruction is imposed or promoted by corporate serving politicians and Soros-funded NGO whack-jobs in the West.
Astounded that Germans aren't lobbing Molotovs at their Bundestag buildings.
Europeans are endangered.