At the end of last year high-level AfD politicians, business representatives and right-wing extremists met in Potsdam to discuss the ‘remigration’, i.e. the expulsion, of millions of people from Germany. Politicians from the other parties are warning about the increasingly visible ties between the AfD and the extreme right-wing spectrum, and have condemned the meeting. Image: Wikipedia, booking.com, collage: KGS/IAK Berlin
Commenting in Berlin on the AfD’s participation in the discussion of right-wing extremist expulsion plans, Christoph Heubner, the executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:
"Holocaust survivors are reacting to the outrageous news about extreme right-wing plans for the singling-out and expulsion of non-German people in Germany with unease and disbelief. This all reminds them of a time and an ideology that turned them and their families into defenceless victims in cattle trucks and concentration camps. It is highly significant that the AfD is promoting these inhuman and anti-constitutional discussions and is evidently deeply involved. Particularly now, the survivors are pinning their hopes on a robust democratic state and citizens who are ready to show this party the red card."