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Putin’s friend, former German Chancellor Schroeder,’s father fought and died for Nazi Germany. If Putin really hated the Nazis, he wouldn’t surround himself with so many ethnic Germans, including at least one child of Nazis. And, he wouldn’t have mastered the German language. Is Putin even Russian? Or is he ethnic German? The head of Nord Stream, Matthias Warnig, is a former East German Stasi agent and friend of Putin.

Catherine the Great of Russia was German (born in Prussia as Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg).

“Germany’s Ex-Chancellor Refuses To Disassociate Himself From Putin
July 10, 2022 By RFE/RL https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-germany-schroeder-putin/31937125.html Germany’s Ex-Chancellor Refuses To Disassociate Himself From Putin
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said he wants to maintain contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite pressure for him to break off their friendship because of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

“I will not give up my opportunities for talks with President Putin,” Schroeder told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in comments published on July 10.

Schroeder, a Social Democrat, was Germany’s chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and after leaving office was made chairman of the board of Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft.
He resigned from the position at Rosneft in May and rejected a nomination to the Gazprom board that had been put forward before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Schroeder faced fierce criticism in Germany for years over his work for the companies.

In the newspaper interview, Schroeder said he did not believe in a military solution to the war in Ukraine and that his understanding after visiting Putin in March was that Putin was interested in a negotiated solution.

“What such a solution looks like can only be clarified in a negotiation,” he said.
Schroeder made it clear that he believes Ukraine is to blame for the fact that negotiations have failed so far.

Other members of Germany’s Social Democrat Party have distanced themselves from Schroeder.

With reporting by dpa Copyright (c)2022 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-germany-schroeder-putin/31937125.html

“Schröder, who masterminded the Nord Stream gas pipeline project together with Putin while he was still chancellor, later became head of the supervisory board at the Russian state energy company, Rosneft. He is considered to be a personal friend of the Russian president.”https://www.dw.com/en/german-term-putinversteher-goes-international/a-61381725

Putin’s hometown: “Germans were the first wide-scale immigrants to arrive in St. Petersburg, many of them working as engineers, builders and craftsmen to help Peter the Great create his new city…. he original bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg were predominantly German. Not far behind them came numerous German scientists…. Catherine the Great, herself German by birth, continued to employ German scientists… ” https://web.archive.org/web/20210506195719/http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/great-germans/
“Catherine was born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, as Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg. Her mother was Johanna Elizabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Her father, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, belonged to the ruling German family of Anhalt…. The royal families of Britain, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden descend from Catherine the Great, as well as the former royal families of Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia and many others…”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great#Royal_descendants

“How Germany got the Russian Revolution off the ground
Zurich, April 9, 1917: “The German chartered train was provided by Kaiser Wilhelm II with the aim of furthering the Russian Revolution. In one of the wagons sat none other than Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. With German help, Lenin left his exile in Switzerland and, a week later, reached his destination: Petrograd, which would later be renamed to Leningrad then changed back to today’s Saint Petersburg….”https://web.archive.org/web/20220104081626/https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution-off-the-ground/a-41195312

Merkel and Putin 2007 Creative Commons By Sebastian Zwez