German election: AfD’s Weidel doubles down on Holocaust comments

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-election-afd-alice-weidel-doubles-down-holocaust-comments/

by Beo1217

33 comments

  1. I find it quite disturbing that this woman is not in prison.

  2. This hypocritical aryan lesbian needs to be put in Prison. I am so sick of people legitimising the AfD. The party should be banned for being a threat to democracy.

  3. They really feel like they can America this shit and get away with it don’t they

  5. Right-wing is one thing, but this party specifically attracts all the German neo-nazis (for a reason). I’ve had some tell me (online) that they’ll invade to take back Danzig and mocking the death and destruction of ww2. If this is what so many Germans want to vote for, then be prepared to be viewed as neo-nazis if the support continues to rise.

  6. Right-wing is one thing, but this party specifically attracts all the German neo-nazis (for a reason). I’ve had some tell me (online) that they’ll invade to take back Danzig and mocking the death and destruction of ww2. If this is what so many Germans want to vote for, then be prepared to be viewed as neo-nazis if the support continues to rise.

  8. What an utter disgrace to humanity that woman is. To be homosexual herself… enjoying the luxuries of living in Switzerland. And yet she’s running a party that wants to crack down on all rights of homosexual folks in Germany. And all the excuses and how she and other people in the AFD try to explain it away, it’s just beyond ludicrous…..

  9. Afd is still growing… They have 21% of the votes while CDU only 30%. That is really disturbing.

  10. It brings me a grim sense of pleasure that I’ve seen so many people in the Western EU criticising Polish and Eastern EU ruled by Eurosceptic right wing parties, only to now have a pro-EU government in Poland and neonazis being the second biggest party in Germany.

    I really hope the protests in Germany really work and CDU stays away from AfD.

  11. The Holocaust is politically instrumentalized? It was actually politics and pseudoscientific beliefs that caused it in the first place. What the fuck is she talking about?

  12. This person is so literally why this quote exists “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

  15. Why the fuck am I living in a country where nearly 1/4 of us votes for this shit? This is ignorant and dangerous thinking.

  16. The fact she doesn’t even live in Germany alone should bar her from government.

  17. A Russian puppet living in Switzerland with no understanding of German history. To think her followers claim to be patriots is ironic to say the least. She couldn’t care less about the German people or their needs but she sure likes making a profit from them.

  18. Thank the heavens, they are still morons at the core. Had they had the brain to know when to shut up who knows how big they would have already been. 

  21. “I find it quite disturbing when the Holocaust is politically instrumentalized,” far-right leader says.

    The same way the far-right instrumentalize the attacks in Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg?

  22. > Welt am Sonntag reported it had a 2013 email containing “racist remarks and democracy-scorning theses” sent by the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) top candidate Alice Weidel

    > The paper reported that the email, dated February 24, 2013, was sent from Weidel to a confidante while she was living in the German city of Frankfurt and working as an asset manager for Allianz.

    > “The reason why we are overrun by culturally foreign people such as Arabs, Sinti and Roma is the systematic destruction of civil society as a possible counterweight from the enemies of the constitution by whom we are governed,” the newspaper quoted the email as saying.

    > The email described German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as “pigs” who were nothing more than “puppets of WWII allies.” It continued to say Merkel’s government was given the task of limiting the population of the German “Volk,” or people.

    > The email’s original text in German uses several words with strong Nazi-era connotations, including “Überfremdung,” which roughly translates to “foreign infiltration” and is used in far-right circles to stir xenophobic sentiment.

    > Prior to the email’s release, Welt am Sonntag said Weidel tried to stop the report from being published. The paper was contacted by Weidel’s lawyers, who said the AfD politician was not the email’s author.

    > Her lawyers told the paper that it was incorrect and unlawful to “publically claim that our client wrote this text or to even express that suspicion.”

    [..]

    > Several days later, however, Alice Weidel changed her tune. She no longer claimed the mail was a fake, confirming the Welt am Sonntag, which had said it had an affidavit and other statements from people who were part of Weidel’s personal and professional network at the time that proved the mail was not a fake.

    https://www.dw.com/en/afds-alice-weidel-called-german-government-pigs-in-racist-email/a-40433932

    The “moderate” face of the party.

  23. Can we please stop with Axel Springer sources? They are feeding the hatred and disinformation that drives people towards these parties!

  26. Great, now let’s talk about _important_ facts re AfD not only trumpesque deflection tactics by their snake-tounged leaders. Namely they not only have absolutely NO solutions for Germanys economic problems, their proposals are, by calculations of economic experts and leaders, even going to make Germanys economy crash and they will make demographic issues even worse for the future.
    By abolishing green tech (“tear down the windmills of shame” lmfao) and restarting nuclear power (which nobody wants, even the power companies themselves) energy prices would sky rocket, for private citizens and for companies. Nuclear power is by far the most expensive power in Germany.

  28. >Weidel denied she had rolled her eyes but doubled down on past controversial remarks, including her description of Germany’s remembrance culture as a “guilt cult” — comments billionaire X-owner Elon Musk backed at a rally in Halle last month.

    Jesus Christ. Criticizing Israel for its current actions is one thing but calling remembrance of the Holocaust a “guilt cult” is just fucking insane. The line between these two things is very, very clear.

  29. If AfD does well in the elections, reading posts on Reddit will be like going to an amusement park.

  30. We find out now if never again, actually means never again.

    Your move Germany.

  33. Can we see some movement back to the SPD and Greens in polls now? This is getting insane.

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