German far-right lawmaker calls for US-German nationalist alliance at MAGA gala

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

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NEW YORK/BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A senior German far-right lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties at a MAGA gala on Saturday where he was being honored, buoyed by a new U.S. security strategy praising Europe's patriotic parties.

Markus Frohnmaier was among some ‌20 state, federal and EU lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany to attend the annual black-tie gala hosted by the New York Young Republican ‌Club.

The showpiece gala has become a gathering point for MAGA-aligned Republicans and international far-right figures in recent years, with U.S. President Donald Trump himself headlining it two years ago.

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German far-right lawmaker calls for US-German nationalist alliance at MAGA gala

By Hussein Waaile and Sarah Marsh NEW YORK/BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A senior German far-right lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties at a MAGA gala on Saturday
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The tenor who sang the U.S. national anthem at the gala sung the ‍taboo first stanza of Germany's ⁠national anthem - used by the Nazis to assert German superiority - at a reception the club held for two visiting AfD lawmakers in October.
 

Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party: What You Need To Know​



Published: 01.02.2025
From: International Affairs
What is AfD?

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.

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV), its domestic intelligence agency which monitors extremist threats to Germany’s democracy, has listed AfD as an officially suspected extremist organization and classified its youth wing, “Young Alternative,” as extremist in April 2023. The state-level BfV offices in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia have gone a step further and classified the AfD party as a whole as extremist. As a suspected extremist organization, AfD is subject to BfV intelligence collection, including the use of informants and surveillance of individuals and their communications.[1]

Why is AfD of concern? Nazi slogans, Holocaust trivialization and more.

Björn Höcke, 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 für Deutschland”) was a slogan of the Nazi stormtroopers and engraved on their daggers.

In a 2017 speech to the AfD youth wing, Höcke 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.

 
My grapevine has recently been talking a lot about how important it is for Europe to keep America interested in Europe.....without us it all blows apart for sure.
 
Guno צְבִי said:

Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party: What You Need To Know​



Published: 01.02.2025
From: International Affairs
What is AfD?

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.

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV), its domestic intelligence agency which monitors extremist threats to Germany’s democracy, has listed AfD as an officially suspected extremist organization and classified its youth wing, “Young Alternative,” as extremist in April 2023. The state-level BfV offices in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia have gone a step further and classified the AfD party as a whole as extremist. As a suspected extremist organization, AfD is subject to BfV intelligence collection, including the use of informants and surveillance of individuals and their communications.[1]

Why is AfD of concern? Nazi slogans, Holocaust trivialization and more.

Björn Höcke, 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 für Deutschland”) was a slogan of the Nazi stormtroopers and engraved on their daggers.

In a 2017 speech to the AfD youth wing, Höcke 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.

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I knew Germans while living there who bemoaned having to constantly apologize for something they had no part in.
 
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