Pegida

A decisive moment was the party congress in Essen in July 2015, where the liberal wing was pushed out and thousands of moderate members left the party.

This opened the door for the AFD to fuse with an anti-Muslim, fascist and racist street movement called Pegida, which was launched in 2014 and able to organize large demonstrations against Syrian refugees that were coming to Germany around that time.

Bjorn Höcke, a Nazi and Holocaust denier, which is, I'm legally allowed to say that, a court has ordered that this man is a Nazi and we can call him that.

He became a regular speaker at the Pegida rallies and neo-Nazi events.

In 2018, he openly threatened well-tempered cruelty, aka massive terror, against the AFD's enemies.

He now isn't the face of the AFD anymore, but sets the tone in the background.

Esta formación luego mutó en Die Heimat, la patria, pero en 2023 la justicia la excluyó de la financiación pública al considerar que perseguía objetivos contrarios al orden democrático.

No obstante, casi una década antes surgió el movimiento antiinmigración Pegida, el cual termina siendo absorbido en buena medida por AfD.

However, almost a decade every day before, the anti-immigration movement Pegida, which ended up being absorbed to a large extent by the AfD.

No obstante, casi una década antes surgió el movimiento antiinmigración Pegida, el cual termina siendo absorbido en buena medida por AfD.

Sin embargo, no todos los expertos consideran que el auge de la extrema derecha en lo que una vez fue la RDA sea una consecuencia directa de su pasado.

However, not all experts consider the rise of the far right in what was once the GDR to be a direct consequence of its past.

But because he's more about the evo psych than the religious punditry, um, he, he doesn't really go so much into the, um, the, the, the religious values part, but he does go into behaviors.

And he leans into this common right-wing stat that comes from a Danish Islamophobe psychologist who claimed that seventy percent of juvenile offenders, uh, in Denmark have Muslim backgrounds, but he got those numbers from his sole caseload, right? [chuckles] Um, and then in twenty fifteen, this guy went on to found the Danish branch of Pegida-

Holy shit

... or the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West.

And there's that element.

And I think Sigmund Ulrich also participated in PEGIDA, that is this far right wing organization, United Europe Against the Islamization of Europe organization.

And these are, you know, very, they don't necessarily engage in violence, but there are violent attacks on, for example, refugee homes and streets.

street fights but these are from kind of frightening organizations from the point of view of normal Germans.