From the editor: My previous article detailing the Nazi leanings of Musk and Trump failed to mention Musk's recent visit to Germany and his close ties with a right-wing German organization, AfD, Alternative for Germany.
“Only AfD can save Germany, end of story, and people really need to get behind AfD, and otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany,” Musk said.
AfD claims that "Muslims have no place in Germany and is calling for a mass deportation of Muslims and other groups, referring to it as a "remigration."
AfD also wants the history books rewritten to reflect pride in Germany's efforts in "two world wars" while minimizing the reporting on the Holocaust and other atrocities.
The article posted below, entitled "What is AfD?" was written by the Anti-Defamation League, published 1/02/2025:
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| AfD leader Alice Weidel, Elon Musk |
Founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party, AfD has since radicalized and become an extremist, anti-immigrant party whose aim is “to eliminate the free democratic basic order,” according to a 2023 report by the German Institute for Human Rights.
AfD leaders have made antisemitic, anti-Muslim and anti-democratic statements, detailed below.
Why is AfD of concern? Nazi slogans, Holocaust trivialization and more.
BjΓΆrn HΓΆcke, leader of the AfD party in the state of Thuringia, has twice been fined by a German court for using a banned Nazi slogan. The phrase, “Everything for Germany” (“Alles fΓΌr Deutschland”) was a slogan of the Nazi stormtroopers and engraved on their daggers.
In a 2017 speech to the AfD youth wing, HΓΆcke bemoaned German’s culture of remembrance of the Holocaust, saying, “We Germans, our people, are the only people in the world who planted a monument of shame in the middle of our national capital.” He called for Germany to stop atoning for Nazi crimes and make a "180-degree turn" in how it remembers its past.
Alexander Gauland, an AfD co-founder, former party leader, and current Member of Parliament, has engaged in Holocaust trivialization on several occasions. In a 2018 speech to the AfD youth wing, he said, “Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.” Gauland also said in 2017 that Germans should be “proud of the achievements of German soldiers in two world wars.”
AfD leaders have also threatened to deport German citizens of non-ethnic-German heritage.
In its 2017 election manifesto, AfD asserted that the presence of Muslims in Germany was a threat to the country: “Islam does not belong in Germany. The AfD sees the spread of Islam and the presence of over 5 million Muslims, whose numbers are constantly growing, as a great danger to our state, our society and our system of values.”[2]
AfD members were exposed as participants in a November 2023 secret meeting of far-right extremists in Potsdam, including Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, who discussed a mass deportation plan for foreigners and "non-assimilated" Germans, as part of AfD’s strategy should it be elected to govern Germany.
Following the exposure of the secret meeting, AfD politicians initially denied participating, but just weeks later began actively campaigning with the slogan, “remigration,” which was the term used at the meeting for the mass deportation plan.
The AfD parliamentary group leaders in the eastern German states.
This idea is hardly new for AfD. In 2017, AfD co-leader Alexander Gauland said that Aydan Γzoguz, a Socialist Party politician, who was born in Germany to Turkish immigrant parents, should be “disposed of” in Turkey.
Current AfD leader, Alice Weidel, then co-leader with Gauland, defended Gauland’s statement.
Why so much concern now?
Germany has federal parliamentary elections on February 23 and AfD is polling at roughly 20%, in second place behind the Christian Democratic Union party at 30%. In state elections in September 2024, AfD gained significantly, coming in first place in Thuringia with 33% of the vote, and a close second place in Saxony with over 30% of the vote.
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