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“That’s exactly how it started with the Nazis”

Bettina Göring warned against the AfD. The party uses Nazi methods, according to the grandniece of Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring.

The great-niece of Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring has accused the AfD of resorting to the National Socialists’ strategies for the mass expulsion of minorities. “I see the same playbook. Everything is brought out again. And this final solution, these guys who want to throw everyone out: That’s exactly how it started with the Nazis,” said Bettina Göring in the podcast “Die Wochentester” from the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” and “Editorial Network Germany” (RND).

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“At the moment it’s the Africans they want to throw out. Then the Muslims. The Jews will definitely come too. Or maybe the gays and lesbians,” she said. When dealing with AfD voters, Bettina Göring, however, warned against hasty condemnation. “If you say: You are the Nazis, you are the devils, you get nowhere,” she said.

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“It seems like something bad is bound to happen first.”

Bettina Göring was pleased with the protests against the AfD. “I’m happy to see that so many people are getting up. It seems like something bad has to happen before people wake up,” said Göring. The protests were triggered by a report by the media company Correctiv about a meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam, which was also attended by AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values.

The former head of the Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, confirmed to the German Press Agency that he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting. When right-wing extremists use this term, they usually mean that large numbers of people with a migrant background should leave the country – even under duress and regardless of whether they have German citizenship, were born in Germany or have the right to asylum.