This is I Don't Speak German.

I'm Jack Graham, he, him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, also he, him,

who spent years tracking the far right in their safe spaces.

In this show we talk about them and about the wider reactionary forces feeding them and feeding off them.

Be warned, this is difficult subject matter, content warnings always apply.

Hello, and you're listening to a podcast called I Don't Speak German, which is I've never been more embarrassed about that title than I am on this show.

And you'll find out why it's just me I'm afraid Daniel couldn't make it, which is, which is a real shame because Daniel has been hoping to get my guests today on to the show for ages and he's sorry to have missed her.

And so on that subject, I'll just get straight into an introduce you to my very special guest for this episode.

Anika Brokschmitt. Hi Anika. Hi, thank you so much for having me on.

It's it's entirely our pleasure and perhaps you can just introduce yourself.

Yeah, so I'm a journalist and author. I'm a trained historian with a background in history of violence, military history and genocide studies.

And I've been writing about and reporting on the sort of various right wing movements in Europe, but also in the US for quite a while with the normally with a focus on the American religious right.

But I've also been doing a lot of research into the sort of group that we're going to talk about today on this podcast.

So I'm happy to be here, albeit out of a more than unhappy sort of there's an unhappy reason for me being here as tends to be the case with these things, but I'm happy to be talking to you.

There's a I'm very happy to be talking to you as again within the context of this whole thing being just sad that it's necessary at all.

But yes, as you can hear, Anika is a is a serious person. So I'd better be better be on my best behavior for this episode.

No need, no need for that at all. I think all of the people who are sort of in the kind of line of work that we do who are doing research on this.

We tend to have various events and appointments where we have to appear as serious people, but I think lots of us deal with this with a lot of cynicism and dark humor.

So I get it, I get it.

You have to have your coping mechanisms.

Yeah, so on to the main topic of the episode, which is going to be the recent attempted right wing coup in Germany, which was averted by police action right away across the federal republic.

You'll probably I will listen as probably aware of that in outline, if not in detail.

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