Holocaust survivor 'appalled' by prospect of right wing in power in German state
Critics say the party’s program would shift history lessons away from the Nazi period and restore military memorials, while support has reached 30%, one poll showed.
- The Alternative for Germany party secured a victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, placing a far-right party within reach of power in a German state for the first time since the end of World War Two.
- Classified as right-wing extremist by the local Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Saxony-Anhalt branch of the AfD dismisses the designation as politically motivated.
- Its party program proposes a "patriotic cultural policy" focusing school history lessons away from the Nazi period to figures such as 19th-century "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck, which critics say aims to minimize Germany's past.
- "We're afraid. We know what happens – what happens to minorities, what happens to foreigners," said Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf, expressing alarm at the far-right's rise amid rising antisemitic incidents in Europe.
- Ahead of September 20 votes, polls show growing support for the far-right in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as critics hope to mobilize the 70% of Germans who do not support the AfD's 30% average.
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Auschwitz Survivor Adds to Warnings About AfD's Win
Eva Umlauf survived Auschwitz as a toddler. Eight decades later, she says she's stunned by what she's seeing in Germany. The 82-year-old doctor and psychotherapist, who heads the International Auschwitz Committee, says she is "appalled" that the hard-right Alternative for Germany has emerged from elections in Saxony-Anhalt within stretching distance...
Germany’s Fascist Party Just Won Control of a State Government
The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored a landslide victory this past Sunday in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election, although it fell short of a majority in its bid to form the first far right state government in the country’s postwar history. It won 43.8 percent of the vote, more than doubling its share of the vote five years ago in the region, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’… Source
Eva Umlauf was two years old when she and her mother were freed from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in January 1945. She says she is appalled to see that, more than 80 years later, the extreme right is once again on the rise in Germany.
'I am appalled': Holocaust survivor raises alarm over far-right AfD victory in Germany
The Alternative for Germany party's victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday has left a far-right party within reach of power in a German state for the first time since World War II.
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