BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday that members of a far-right group recently gathered at a mansion on the outskirts of Berlin and planned to deport millions of immigrants, including some who hold German citizenship. The plan was harshly criticized. seize power.
The alleged plan, published in an article on Wednesday by the Collective of Investigative Journalists, has caused an uproar in the country because it aligns with the Nazi ideology of deporting all ethnically non-German people. caused it.
Scholz said Germany will not allow people living in the country to be judged by whether they have roots abroad.
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“We will protect everyone, no matter where they come from, the color of their skin or how offensive someone may be to fanatics with assimilation fantasies,” the Prime Minister wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“Anyone who opposes the free democratic order” is subject to action by Germany's domestic intelligence service and judicial authorities, he said, adding that learning lessons from Germany's history should not be just lip service. .
Scholz discusses the Nazi Third Reich dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, whose politics were based on racial ideology and the exclusion and deportation of Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, and many others. It was mentioned.
The Nazis believed in the superiority of their “Aryan” race and ultimately murdered 6 million Jews and other minorities in the Holocaust.
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The November meeting included members of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the extremist Identarian movement, the Collective reported.
At the meeting, Austrian national Martin Sellner, a prominent member of the Identity movement, confirmed to the German news agency dpa that he presented a vision of “re-migration” regarding the deportation of migrants.
Other participants included members of the AfD party, including Roland Hartwig, an adviser to party leader Alice Weidel, the collective said.
The AfD was founded in 2013 as a Eurosceptic party and first entered the German Bundestag in 2017. According to opinion polls, it currently ranks second in the country with an approval rating of about 20%, far exceeding the 10.3% it won in the last federal election in 2021.
Since its founding, the party has continued to move to the right, gaining support for its fierce anti-immigration ideology.
The momentum is particularly strong in eastern Germany, where state elections are scheduled in Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg later this year. The AfD leads the polls with over 30% support in all three states.
It is constitutionally impossible to deport German citizens from the country, and the constitution can only be amended by a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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