Information about a secret meeting between the AfD and far-right groups has sparked outrage in Germany.
In November last year, four leading figures of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, a number of well-known neo-Nazi activists and several wealthy businessmen gathered in Potsdam, near Berlin.
In a secret meeting held in a remote lakeside hotel, the parties discussed ways to deport millions of immigrants if the AfD became Germany’s ruling party.
The matter was revealed yesterday, Wednesday, by a German specialist in investigative journalism newsroom Correctiv.
According to Correctiv, among the AfD politicians who participated in the meeting was a member of the party’s leadership By Alice Weidel adviser Roland Hartwig. British newspaper of The Guardian According to Hartwig’s tasks, among other things, the development of the party’s strategy has been included.
At the hotel, the politicians met, among other things, the leader of the Austrian wing of the extremist Identitarian movement, who believes in the theory of population exchange by Martin Sellner. According to the plan presented by Sellner at the meeting, both asylum seekers and “culturally unfit” German citizens should be deported from Germany.
AfD does not deny the participation of some of the party’s experienced politicians in the meeting. However, the party denies to the news agency Reuters that it is planning to deport German citizens “who do not adapt to the culture” and says that the plans presented by Sellner do not correspond to the party’s official position.
Martin Sellner, on the other hand, admits that he was at the meeting, but denies that he presented anything illegal.
Scholz condemns the intentions of the extreme right
Information about a secret meeting between the AfD and far-right groups has sparked outrage in Germany.
Plans presented at the meeting to return immigrants to Africa have been compared to Nazi Germany’s early plans to send European Jews to the island of Madagascar in Africa, before Adolf Hitler turned to the mass murder of Jews.
Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz has taken a stand on Correctiv’s revelation on Thursday by calling on all German “democrats” to stand together against far-right fanatics.
– We protect everyone, regardless of origin, skin color or how uncomfortable someone causes fanatics with merger fantasies, Scholz writes in the message service X.
In Germany, AfD’s support has been on the rise in numerous opinion polls. For example, one about American politics online magazine Politico According to
However, the party is under investigation in several states and may face a ban if it is found to be an extremist organization.
The background of the AfD’s popularity is the accelerating immigration to Germany and the strain it causes on the country’s public finances.
All political parties in Germany are committed to eradicating illegal immigration. The concessions made by other parties have only increased AfD’s support.