The far-right meeting, involving members of the AfD, the head of the Identitarian Movement and neo-Nazi activists, took place last November at a countryside hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam.
According to the investigative outlet Correctiv, which first reported the story, the concept of “re-migration” – the forceful return of migrants, allegedly including those with German citizenship, to their countries of origin through mass deportations – dominated the discussions.
“Learning from history is about more than just lip service,” he added, in what appeared to be a reference to the Nazi dictatorship, which made race ideology, ostracism and the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti, gay people and many others the cornerstone of its politics.
The AfD, buoyed in part by discontent over immigration, is polling in first place in all five of Germany’s eastern states, three of which are expected to hold elections later this year.
The AfD members were meeting Martin Sellner, a key figure in the pan-European “New Right” who, in 2019, was permanently barred from entering the UK because of his extremist views.
As news of the meeting sparked outrage across Germany, Maximilian Krah, the AfD’s lead candidate for the European parliament elections in June, vowed to address the large number of migrants who had arrived in the country in 2022, more than 40% of whom were reportedly from Ukraine.
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