Germany's far-right AfD may seize regional power in 2026 – DW – 12/24/2025
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) will seek power in next year's state elections. Civil society groups are alarmed, as are security services, which have found that some of its factions represent extremist threats.
    • rumschlumpel ( rumschlumpel@feddit.org ) English
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      10 months ago

      It would be rather surprising if Germany was able to “stop the urges” while most of their neighbors recently indulged in those exact urges. Despite being former victims of the WW2-Nazis (plus Italy, which should also have learned the hard way that this doesn’t end well).

      • pendel ( pendel@feddit.org ) English
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        10 months ago

        It’s very generous to call the Germans victims of the Nazis when in reality both east and west Germany have been defacto run by former Nazis. There hasn’t been a proper denazification ever, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung has a lot of material on this.

        It’s true that other countries are going down the same route but Germany is not a country of Nazi victims it is a country of descendants of Nazi perpetrators. There could have been a proper restart but it just never happened.

        • poVoq ( poVoq@slrpnk.net ) English
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          10 months ago

          You didn’t read properly. The “victim” part refers to the neighbours of Germany which mostly were victims of Germany in WW2.

        • rumschlumpel ( rumschlumpel@feddit.org ) English
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          10 months ago

          1. The neighbors of Germany are not Germany itself, but other countries.

          2. How does your comment even refute that statement that you apparently thought I wrote? The Germans who actually wanted the Nazi regime were a minority, though a large one. The first victims of the regime were German opposition politicians/activists, German gay people, German disabled, German jews etc. There were Germans who were perpetrators and Germans who were victims (and some who were both), the country was not a monolith.

          Also, many other countries were fairly enthusiastic about the Nazi regime and racism in general, they just didn’t like getting attacked by the Germans. UK and France were still colonial regimes, and the US literally had Nazi rallies, still had extremely racist laws (still do, but it got better in the 1960s) and was also a colonial power.

        • FerretyFever0 ( FerretyFever0@fedia.io ) 
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          10 months ago

          They did do a whole lot of pushing the antigenocide thing with education, trying to supposedly show regret for the Holocaust, at least that’s what I’ve heard. Guess that didn’t work for too long, shame. How are kids going to concentration camps and still not coming out with a permanent empathy for others?