Migrant segregation and trips to former Reich territories: neo-Nazis advise AfD leader
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- Die Welt reported that Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s election leader in Saxony-Anhalt, has links to former members of the neo-Nazi Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend.
- The group once drew inspiration from Nazi Germany’s Hitler Youth, while Siegmund has maintained a more moderate public reputation.
Ulrich Siegmund has a moderate reputation, but an investigation by Die Welt says people from a neo-Nazi organization circulate around the AfD’s election leader in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to the report, Siegmund consults former members of Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend, an organization that once sought to raise a new generation of extremists.
The group was inspired by Nazi Germany’s Hitler Youth. The findings cast attention on the people advising or surrounding a prominent Alternative for Germany figure.
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Originally published by iDNES in Czech. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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