German AfD politicians meet militant neo-Nazis in Switzerland | An event near Zurich in mid-December at which two AfD politicians spoke was organized by the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat and attended by members of Blood & Honour.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-835554

by GirasoleDE

17 comments

  1. Feels like we’re in the 1930s again, ready to re-learn some lessons we’ve already seem to have forgotten.

  2. >Roger Beckamp (AfD), member of the Bundestag, and Lena Kotré (AfD), member of the Brandenburg state parliament, met with members of far-right groups in Switzerland in mid-December, including representatives of the ‘Blood & Honour’ movement, which is banned in Germany, and the far-right Swiss group ‘Junge Tat’. The Baden-Württemberg Junge Alternative and the Lörrach AfD were also involved. In a conversation after the meeting, Beckamp revealed that his current candidacy for the state list was only ‘for show’, allegedly to support other candidates. A reporter from Correctiv was present at the meeting undercover.
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    >At the meeting, Kotré went into more detail about what she meant by ‘remigration’: she spoke out in favour of revoking the citizenship of naturalised Germans who did not comply with the law. When they were naturalised, they had deceived themselves into believing that they would abide by the free and democratic basic order. Kotré also presented her idea of privatising the deportation industry and using DNA samples, among other things, to determine people’s origins.
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    >Although the meeting was publicly advertised, it took place under strict security precautions. Some participants were brought to the venue from a secret meeting point. There they were photographed undercover by journalists from the [‘Recherche Nord’](https://www.recherche-nord.com/gallery/2024.12.14.Schweiz.JT.html) media collective, which also allowed ‘Blood & Honour’ members – a movement banned in Germany – to be identified.
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    >During the interview, Kotré also provided insights into the party’s internal handling of a possible AfD ban: the ‘fear of an AfD ban’ is something ‘that is also worrying the Federal Executive Committee’. She said that the party should not ‘artificially distance itself’. Although it makes no sense to trivialise the Holocaust or glorify Hitler, ‘anything less than that must be acceptable in my eyes’, such as talking about ‘how you see your own people’ and ‘what you want to keep away from your own people’. A ban procedure will come anyway, regardless of meetings like the one in Switzerland.
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    >The event was organised by Manuel Corchia, a leading member of ‘Junge Tat’, who had previously been found to have an arsenal of weapons during a house search. The participation of the two AfD politicians in the meeting is part of the current debate about the radicalisation of the AfD.
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    >CORRECTIV is publishing some audio recordings of the event for documentation purposes.

    https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue-rechte/2024/12/27/afd-funktionaere-aus-bundestag-und-landtag-treffen-radikale-neonazi-gruppen-in-der-schweiz-scheinkandidatur-enthuellt/

    *Translated with DeepL.com (free version)*

    Long version:

    https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue-rechte/2024/12/27/kein-geheimtreffen-gegen-deutschland/

  4. This is the party Elon Musk supports

    And this is not the first time this happend

  6. And there are still people who insist AfD is not a nazi party🤬

  7. Oh don’t worry, they were just there to buy back the gold they sold them.

    In all seriousness though, this is awful news.

  8. Europe is on the brink of fascism again. We have forgotten the hard lessons of the past and all it takes is one major negative event to push us over the edge.

  9. So many wrong words in this title, it’s outright disturbing

  10. But what kind of Nazis are they?

    Giorgia Meloni’s kind?
    Javier Milei’s kind?
    Trump’s kind?

    Or actual Hitler’s kind?

  11. News like this and the subrredit looks like a small niche one with less than 100 comments or upvotes, i wonder why

  12. I imagine Swiss intelligence services will have kept a close eye on this

  13. Amazing, just in time for Elon Musk to interview the leader of the AfD on Twitter.

    I bet this won’t come up in the discussion, nor will any other bits of news that shows how far right they are.

  14. Ok, so ummm, I’m ethnically Jewish and in Germany, what’s a good place to run off too?

  15. We must endure this challenge with a single, unwavering goal: to preserve democracy at all costs. If we allow ourselves to compromise our principles or get our hands dirty in the process of resisting their rise, we will only make them stronger. Instead, we must navigate the upcoming madness with patience and rely on democracy itself to resolve these issues in the next four years or so. This is the only way forward. ONLY WAY. 

  16. What will take for AfD to be finally banned and all members arrested? “oh, but what about people wanting to vote for them?” Education, campaigns and, well, sorry, voting for neonazis is not an option. Voting against democracy is not an option.

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