AfD’s victory on Sunday has sent a shudder through Germany which has spent decades facing up to its Nazi past
IT is the first far-right party to win German state elections since the Nazis – and the success of Alternative for Germany is down to younger supporters.TikTokers to back the organisation known as AfD, which is led in the state of Thuringia by a man who has been labelled a “fascist”.
The activist told The Sun: “Almost no other party is so active on social media platforms, especially TikTok. The message is, ‘Young people, come to us. We are the next movement’.”Incredible story of Nazi hunter and holocaust refugee In 2019 a court in Thuringia ruled it was not libellous to call Hocke a “fascist” as the opinion had a “verifiable, factual basis”.The father-of-four once spoke of the Germans “longing for a historical figure” who would “heal the wounds of the people”.
The AfD — formed in 2013 as a Eurosceptic party — has seen its fortunes rise as it hammered home its anti-immigration stance. He told me: “In hindsight, it should have been clearer that you can also push people back at the border who have already entered another European country.”
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