OpinionThe AfD is not the NSDAP:
Is the AfD the NSDAP? And are West Germans actually German-speaking Americans? The German Chancellor and the far-right figurehead of ...
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“We must be out of our minds!!!”: The AfD leak reveals the path Alice Weidel has taken
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Germany: Where far-right parties were and still are successful: Scientists observe that in many former Nazi strongholds, people are now more likely to vote for ...
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Key FactsResearchers Observe Stronger AfD Support in Former NSDAP Strongholds
6 days ago · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: sueddeutsche.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: sueddeutsche.de
- Researchers observe that people in many former NSDAP strongholds now vote for the AfD more frequently.
- According to the article, Adolf Hitler’s appointment as chancellor in January 1933 ushered in Weimar’s end.
- The March 1933 election campaign was marked by Nazi terror and persecution of political opponents.
- According to the article, this election paved the way from the Weimar Republic to dictatorship.
RTL/ntv trend barometer: More than three-quarters of AfD supporters expect the end of the Merz coalition
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Key FactsPoll: 77% of AfD Supporters Expect Coalition Breakup
6 days ago · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: n-tv.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: n-tv.de
- In the Forsa survey, 56 percent expect an early breakup, while 40 percent believe the coalition will last through 2029.
- Eleven percent approve of Friedrich Merz’s performance, while 87 percent express dissatisfaction.
- If a federal election were held this week, AfD would receive 27, Union 20, Greens 17 and SPD 13 percent.
- Regarding support for Ukraine, 41 percent consider it appropriate, 43 percent excessive and 12 percent insufficient.
OpinionGermany in autumn: CDU and SPD in the final battle: The AfD is the equivalent of currywurst with fries. Greasy, unhealthy, but filling. The CDU and SPD ...
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AfD leader threatens to pull German funding for Ukraine and repeats Putin talking points in worrying interview
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“There’s no point in branding the AfD as neo-fascist”: The German star historian Götz Aly refuses to panic in light of the AfD’s electoral success ...
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Kramer: Conditions for AfD ban proceedings are met.: Stephan Kramer, President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the Thuringian Ministry of ...
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Heinrich August Winkler: "The AfD promises its voters the moon": Historian Heinrich August Winkler on lessons from Weimar, the limits of banning the AfD ...
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Höcke and the Holocaust: "The AfD wants to damage the culture of remembrance": Hitler Youth at a swearing-in ceremony during the "Greater Germany Reich Party ...
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Left-wing double standards - | Fighting Höcke, but celebrating Che Guevara: Bodo Ramelow warns of the new NSDAP and a day later his parliamentary group leader ...
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Historian: AfD and NSDAP should not be equated: Historian Ute Daniel warns against banning the AfD – | and against premature pronouncements of doom for German ...
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OpinionThe situation this morning: Can the Chancellor appease his former fans today?: Friedrich Merz has to defend his pension compromise with the SPD at the Young ...
spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/news-friedrich-merz-bei-der-jungen-union-berliner-spd-spitzenkandidat-putin-und-die-afd-a-7cca6b46-3e85-4267-9b29-8604bf74f662
Doctrine of unrest: EU and Germany on the wrong track. Cityscape and no end in sight. Police officer K. to blame for foreign crime? A case for Franz Kafka ...
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Role models of right-wing extremism in Germany: The true roots of the AfD: The AfD is often compared to the NSDAP. However, during the Weimar period ...
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Nazi term “old fighters”: “Breaking taboos to make National Socialist ideology socially acceptable”
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Chancellor-to-be: Friedrich and his Nazi grandfather: When the taz newspaper researched his grandfather's past years ago, Friedrich Merz sued the newspaper ...
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Half of Germans find AfD as dangerous as the NSDAP: For 58 percent, the AfD is not electable because of German history, according to a study on the 80th ...
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"Bracing for a breakthrough": AfD situation shows uncanny parallels to 1925: So far, the AfD has celebrated one triumph after another without a strong leader ...
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Key FactsAfD: Parallels to the NSDAP and Leadership Changes
Apr 25, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: fr.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: fr.de
- The AfD is achieving success without clear leadership, raising questions about its future.
- Excluding Björn Höcke from elections could occur under specific circumstances, but it is complex.
- There are disturbing similarities between the current situation of the AfD and the NSDAP before 1925.
- Potential leader Höcke polarizes and could negatively impact the AfD's electoral chances.
Today's society is hardly comparable to that of 1925 in terms of economic and social conditions.— Oliver Lembcke explains that the ground for extremes was much more fertile in the post-World War society than it is today.
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