Before being prohibited last month, few Germans had heard of Compact. Now it claims ‘everyone wants a copy’
What was supposed to be a decisive blow against right-wing extremism ended up as yet another setback for the German government — the latest in a long line of judicial defeats that have badly damaged its credibility. Germany’s interior minister Nancy Faeser last month banned Compact, a controversial nationalist magazine she called a “central mouthpiece of the extreme right-wing scene”. But on Wednesday a top court overturned the ban — and Compact was allowed to resume publication.
Faeser said at the time that authorities were targeting the “intellectual arsonists that incite a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overthrow our democratic state”. Interior ministry officials said the magazine spread “conspiracy theories and content that was antisemitic, racist, historically revisionist and anti-minority”, and claimed several Compact employees had links to the far-right extremist party “Die Heimat” — a successor to the neo-Nazi NPD.
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