(B) Data leak reveals successes in attack on power supply

In particular, the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment (SenMKVU for short) under the leadership of Ute Bode (CDU) is involved in disaster control and the protection of critical infrastructure (KRITIS). In numerous documents that come from the data liberation that has become known, it is repeatedly emphasized that until Russia's so-called war of aggression, the German authorities "since the 1990s [...] after the end of the Cold War, as part of the peace dividend, measures to increase the resilience of overall defense were no longer pursued as a priority by the federal administration and the states" (Source: Civil Defense Guide - VS NfD). Now what was supposedly missed must be made up for with great enthusiasm.

The power outage between January 3rd and 7th, 2026 offered an excellent opportunity to test the resilience mentioned. Accordingly, various communications between the Senate Chancellery, the Interior Senate and the Senate Administration are euphoric about the supposedly smooth process of crisis management. In order to learn even better in the future (failure learning), everyone involved has the opportunity to use follow-up forms to evaluate the entire process afterwards. However, when it comes to the detailed questions of how the operation was handled, there doesn't seem to have been much positive feedback internally (the only positive thing that was highlighted was that the experimental reactor in Wannsee had an emergency power supply and therefore did not explode), but there are complaints from the SenMKVU mainly with regard to the handling of the company Diehl Metal Applications GmbH.

Now you can feel whatever you want about the attack on the electricity infrastructure in winter... We find it interesting that the propaganda from the Senate and the majority of the media reported almost exclusively from those affected who were not involved.

As part of the arms group Diehl Defense, the company Diehl Metal Applications is known for manufacturing and supplying weapons to crisis areas and has often been the target of direct action. And there was no electricity for your weapons factory (Am Stichkanal, 14167 Berlin). The management of the Senate Administration mainly complains that the Diehl company was not informed in good time before the power supply was restarted and that Diehl therefore had to intentionally disconnect their factory from the network in order to prevent an accident (and thus damage to the surrounding population) and that the same company was not particularly taken into account in the supply of heating elements. However, problems with regard to the treatment of the local population do not seem to have been particularly noticed.

Unfortunately, the contradiction in the priority view of state institutions, the population as supposedly exclusively affected in the public debate and arms companies as areas actually worth protecting in real scenarios, is not only evident in these. The reporting follows a similar pattern. In this way, the sovereignty of interpretation is left entirely to the state, which is simultaneously under attack, and the given propaganda image is reproduced even in the most recent case of sabotage. The dissonance at the TAZ was most likely cognitive when the editorial team recently received a confessional letter from a person who wanted to take the coal phase-out into their own hands. When the fight is no longer against aluminum factories in Iceland, but against domestic companies on our own doorstep, the TAZ's left-wing green paint blurs with the green of the investigative authorities.