{"id":7990,"date":"2025-02-22T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-unabashedly-provocative-youth-driving-germanys-far-right\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:20:28","slug":"the-unabashedly-provocative-youth-driving-germanys-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-unabashedly-provocative-youth-driving-germanys-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unabashedly Provocative Youth Driving Germany\u2019s Far Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, with its anti-immigrant and nationalist platform, has long been the pariah of German politics. Its members have been fined for Nazi slogans and labeled extremist by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahead of Sunday\u2019s national parliamentary election, a new band of influencers has found a voice among voters by bringing a more youthful edge to the party known for its provocations and controversies. They welcome the scorn of protesters, journalists and the mainstream political parties. Some of them still trade jokes about Hitler and Jews, along with the occasional Sig Heil salute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their party\u2019s energy and ethos has won approving nods from Elon Musk, an adviser to President Trump, and from Vice President JD Vance. And they have helped elevate the party to second in the polls, even as the political establishment has kept the AfD out of government as part of a longstanding commitment to sideline parties deemed extreme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They are the changing face of the AfD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Kaiser, 28, first went to an AfD event in 2017, she was surrounded by retirees. \u201cThey could have been my grandparents,\u201d she said. Things have changed. Young people who might have been punks or hippies in a different time are now finding the AfD, she said \u2014 and posting about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Kaiser is a parliamentary candidate and a personal assistant in the office of Alice Weidel, the leader of the AfD. She canvassed for the party on a frigid Saturday morning in Sittensen, a small town outside Hamburg. She picked the spot because she had been uninvited from a panel discussion there because of lingering controversy over a social media post that violated a law against hate speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2021, Ms. Kaiser on Facebook criticized Germany\u2019s acceptance of immigrants from Afghanistan. In the post, she asked Hamburg\u2019s mayor whether he was creating a \u201cwelcome culture for gang rapes?\u201d The government fined her 6,000 euros ($6,275) and convicted her of inciting racial hatred. Her online following grew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other young activists have embraced confrontation to win votes and gain followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On a recent Saturday, Michelle Gollan, 23, stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with a stern look on her face. She held a microphone adorned with the name of her YouTube channel, \u201ceingollan,\u201d which has nearly 200,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her poster read \u201cremigration,\u201d considered AfD code for deportations. The dot on the \u201ci\u201d has been replaced by a pink AfD arrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was trying to attract protesters to talk to her, to feed a new video and, she said, introduce her viewers to new ideas. She succeeded with a woman with an anti-AfD sticker on her jacket and a rainbow flag draped around her shoulders, who briefly debated her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The tense discussion left a huge grin on Ms. Gollan\u2019s face: \u201cFor me, being provocative also means triggering people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whenever the AfD rallies in the streets, as it did in Munich this month after a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/munich-car-attack-who-what.html\" title=\"\">mother and child were killed by an immigrant in a car attack<\/a>, protesters show up. And when protesters march against the party, as hundreds of thousands have done already in Berlin during this campaign, young AfD activists show up in turn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At such demonstrations, Christopher Tamm, 24, likes to wear a hoodie emblazoned with the logo of the AfD\u2019s youth wing, which is classified as extremist by German intelligence. \u201cI openly say that I am right-wing, that I stand for right-wing politics,\u201d Mr. Tamm said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next morning, near Hamburg, an AfD supporter waved good morning to fellow volunteers who were canvassing for the elections. He left his hand up in a Hitler salute, which is illegal in Germany. \u201cKeep your arm up like this a bit longer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Being provocative and promoting fear and hate work well on social media, but that tone shouldn\u2019t be adopted by a mainstream party, said Emilia Fester, 26, a member of Parliament from the Greens party. Ms. Fester isn\u2019t shy about speaking out against the AfD. Whenever it spreads lies or disinformation on social media, she said, \u201cThat is something one must clearly call out and limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The young AfD activists are an extension of a party that has found support in many corners of Germany since its founding in 2013. It is a party no longer defined by a single demographic, but infused more broadly into a society where many still see the AfD as far-right extremists. In doing so, they have created their own counterculture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wutb\u00fcrger, a German rock bank whose name translates to \u201cenraged citizen,\u201d started out making patriotic anti-establishment music. It has since embraced a far-right identity and fan base, forging close ties with some AfD politicians. It has also been classified as a \u201cright-wing extremist group\u201d by a state government in Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The band\u2019s song \u201cWalhalla,\u201d including the lyric \u201cwe send our enemies back to the Orient,\u201d has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe achieved our own counterculture. Our own music, our own rap culture, our own rock culture,\u201d said Andy Habermann, the band\u2019s leader. \u201cWe don\u2019t hear the mainstream anymore, we don\u2019t see them on TV, we don\u2019t listen to the mainstream anymore on the radio. We know they are filtered, sadly. 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