The AfD and Germany's Nazi past
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The Times
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The hard-right Alternative for Germany party won its first state election earlier this month in Thuringia. Anti-immigrant, anti-woke and anti-green, its popularity has brought back uncomfortable comparisons with the rise of the National Socialists in the 1930s.
On Monday, Berlin announced that controls at all German land borders will be introduced for six months to stop illegal migrants entering the country.
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Host: Luke Jones.
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| 1:00.0 | Terms apply. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:07.0 | One of my first assignments after I moved to Germany for the times in the summer of 2018 |
| 1:18.9 | was to go and interview a young woman pretty much exactly my age so end of her 20s in a coffee shop the kind of |
| 1:26.7 | place that has cheery little signs saying live in La Vida mochoca and she turns up very sort of fresh-faced, short hair, a little bit nervy, which was understandable |
| 1:41.0 | given that she sometimes had to have police protection |
| 1:44.9 | when she left her house. |
| 1:46.5 | The reason for that was that she had quite recently left |
| 1:51.9 | in a very public manner a German political party called the |
| 1:56.2 | alternative of your Deutschland and trying to get to grips with this right-wing party and to understand how they saw themselves. |
| 2:06.0 | I asked her quite early on the interview what their model was, what they kind of looked to as their political template, and she didn't even |
| 2:16.2 | hesitate, just look me straight in the eye and said, Germany's political mainstream got a big shock. |
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