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Germany’s domestic intelligence agency formally classified the Alternative for Germany as a right-wing extremist movement, meaning authorities will have enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy.

The judgment by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution “is based on an extremely careful expert review spanning approximately three years” that examined remarks made by high-ranking AfD officials, according to a statement published Friday by Sinan Selen and Silke Willems, the office’s co-vice presidents.

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    • FourGreenFields@feddit.orgEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Reich_Party

      The party claimed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was an American puppet and that Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was the last legitimate President of the German Reich, as he had been appointed by Adolf Hitler. It denied the existence of the Holocaust, claimed that the United States built the gas ovens of the Dachau concentration camp after the Second World War and that films of concentration camps were faked. […] It demanded the re-annexation of the former eastern territories of Germany and a “solution of the Jewish question”.

      TL;DR: If you’re openly a nazi party in 1952 you might get banned.

      EDIT: Also helps if you’re willing to ally with the soviets in 1952, it seems.

      said that he would “show the Russians the way to the Rhine”

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      The only way a party can get banned is by a ruling of our highest court (our equivalent of the supreme court). However, they can not startathe process of banning a party unless our parliament or the Bundesrat (I dont know what’s the translation/English equivalent for this is) tells the court to investigate a party. It is unlikely that the parliament will do this and so the Bundesrat is pretty much our last and only hope.

      • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        21 hours ago

        However, they can not startathe process of banning a party unless our parliament or the Bundesrat (I dont know what’s the translation/English equivalent for this is) tells the court to investigate a party.

        Bundestag : First Chamber
        Bundesrat : Second Chamber

        Composition of Bundesrat currently:

        Red is social democratic SPD, black and blue are conservative CDU+CSU, green is left-ecoliberal Grüne, yellow is neoliberal FDP, orange is ruralist-regionalist FW, purple is left-auth BSW, magenta is left-socialist Linke.

        They represent the 16 federal states’ coalition governments.

        • rhombus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          The actual translations are something like Bundestag=Federal Diet and Bundesrat=Federal Council. Bundestag was originally the Reichstag in Imperial Germany (Diet of the Realm, or Imperial Diet) while the Bundesrat had the same name as it represented the state governments as it does now.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        4·
        1 day ago

        As soon as the conservos and “social democrats” get their heads screwed on straight, it’ll happen. Promise.

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      Soon after WW2, they banned a party that was just the NSDAP (the original Nazi party) under a new name.
      And the KPD (communist party).

      Nowadays, I don’t think it’s possible anymore.