The End of 'the Nazi Bludgeon': German Media Announces 'Nationwide Right-Wing Association' Forming and Leaves out Crucial Facts
The post-WW2 era is now over, so grab your popcorn and watch legacy media abolishing itself, closely followed by legacy political parties
Strangely, ‘new’ products aren’t supposedly introduced during holiday seasons or immediately thereafter. Today, we will investigate such a ‘new’ product launch that failed in the most transparently idiotic way. This post is also too long for email, says Substack, so please venture over to the app or read it online.
All translations, emphases, and bottom lines mine.
Nazi Allusions (Allegations) vs. AfD Backfire Spectacularly
We’ll kick off this posting by pointing to a long-ish exposé in Der Tagesspiegel, which was co-written by three journos (paywalled original; archived link) and alleged the following issues (see if you can spot the gaslighting spin here):
A Nationwide Right-Wing Front Meets in Potsdam: In a Lakeside Villa, AfD, Maaßen, Identitarians, and Compact are Hatching Plans
By Henri Kramer, Dominik Lenze, Alexander Fröhlich, 10 Jan. 2024, 6:00 o’clock
A hotspot for right-wing celebrities and donors has established itself in Brandenburg. Now they are said to have discussed the expulsion of millions of migrants from Germany at a secret meeting at Lehnitzsee.
It is a villa in the north of Potsdam, whose name carries a lot of weight in the hospitality industry. Built in the mid-1920s by conservative Prussians, it was also promisingly modern at the time, especially with access to Lake Lehnitz. For the upper 10,000 of [Weimar Germany’s] Berlin society, this lavish country house, commissioned by the son of the Berlin noble hotel founder Lorenz Adlon, was the starting point for hunting parties.
This place, of all places, has developed into a meeting place for the right-wing front, as weeks of research by Tagesspiegel and Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten (PNN) show. Since 2017 at the latest, representatives of right-wing parties and likeminded movements have been meeting there time and again—and also their financiers. The connections extend to the federal leadership of the AfD. [Aren’t you shocked, shocked that politicking is going on here]
For years they were apparently sure that they would find a new refuge unperturbed in the north of Potsdam for their plans: the Lehnitzsee Conference to expel millions of immigrants, even if they have a German passport—once the AfD would be in power [in case you didn’t ‘get’ the association, let’s render it explicit]. Just a few kilometers away, Nazi leaders had planned and coordinated the murder of European Jews at the 1942 Wannsee Conference in the ‘Third Reich’. [didn’t we see that association coming?]
It was known that the AfD's youth organisation had already celebrated on the property at Lehnitzsee. The Junge Alternative (JA) Brandenburg, which is now classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, held a summer festival there in 2017 [oh my, all the ‘research’, carried out ostensibly by these daring journos, simply omitted the factoid that the Verfassungsschutz—Germany’s domestic intel outfit akin to, say, the FBI, MI5, or Russia’s FSB—that it was not before 3 Sept. 2018, as a recent court ruling against the JA holds, that the Junge Alternative was declared ‘an organisation of interest’ (orig. Beobachtungsobjekt) by two state branches of the Verfassungsschutz, which, you know, kinda renders the reference to the summer festival in 2017 anachronistic; more on this case below in the bottom lines]
Leading representatives of the Brandenburg AfD are also said to frequent the property regularly, including Bundestag member Steffen Kotré and the former AfD state leader Andreas Kalbitz. The AfD-affiliated publicist Silke Schröder organised the cultural salon ‘The Conservative Aperitif’ on the property at least once. Schröder also worked for the conspiracy-ideological broadcaster Auf1 [remember: if the establishment doesn’t like your opinions, you’re a ‘conspiracy theorist’].
Leading Right-Wing Extremist Strategists
Maximilian Krah, the AfD's top candidate for the 2024 EU elections, is said to be personally close to the managing director [of the Lehnitzsee Villa; apparently having contacts or friendships is a no-no, too, for ‘right-wingers’] and has attended events on the site several times. Krah is counted among the ethno-nationalist [orig. völkisch; it remains unmentioned who’s doing that counting] wing of the AfD and is close to the ‘Institute for State Policy’ [orig. Institut für Staatspolitik], which is monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
That's what Götz Kubitschek's right-wing extremist think tank calls itself; he is something like the chief ideologist of the entire scene, the thought-leader of the AfD. Kubitschek is said to have visited the owners of the property in 2021 and 2022 [that would be both a thought-crime and despicable, if you’re part of the Berlin blob, that is]. The same applies to Jürgen Elsässer, editor of the right-wing extremist Compact magazine. Both are considered [by whom?] the scene's leading right-wing extremist strategists. Activists from the Identitarian Movement [orig. Identitäre Bewegung] are also said to have been guests.
The manager of the guest house belonging to the property told the Tagesspiegel: ‘None of the people were guests at the guest house. I do not know whether they were guests at individual events there.’ She responded similarly to questions about whether the AfD or Junge Alternative met on the property: she is not involved in the rental activities and providing information would violate data protection regulations.
The owner of the villa left Tagesspiegel's questions about individual guests unanswered [for the above reasons]. However, events organised by the AfD and other organisations on the guesthouse premises are not permitted by the rental agreement. And further: ‘Neither I nor the operator know anything about guests at privately booked events.’ [we learn that if you’re renting any property, you may not host guests privately, if they are not to the liking of the Berlin blob]
A private radio station is operated on the site next door. Their employee was already working for the AfD parliamentary group in Berlin. The editorial director is the host of the ‘General Assembly of the True Swarm Intelligence’ [orig. Vollversammlung der wahren Schwarmintelligenz] a conservative to new right-wing network. Hans-Georg Maaßen, the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was a guest there. Maaßen is also said to have visited the property on Lehnitzsee several times [about Mr. Maaßen, we note, briefly, that he was recently ousted from this position, ostensibly because he objected to (ab)using domestic intel resources on spying on political opponents of the gov’t, something the current Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is doing on a seemingly regular basis]
AfD politicians were also present at a meeting in August 2023; participants discussed how the ‘firewall’ [orig. Brandmauer] between the CDU and AfD can be overcome. For example, by founding a new party, as Maaßen now plans to do with the right-wing conservative Werteunion . In November 2023, the controversial Brandenburg CDU state parliament member Saskia Ludwig and the AfD-affiliated publicist Silke Schröder spoke about ‘coming to terms with the corona pandemic’ [both Ms. Ludwig and Ms. Schröder are ‘controversial’ because they asked questions about the Covid mandates and decisions in the State Parliament, or Landtag, of Brandenburg, on which see here].
A Master Plan for ‘Remigration’ of Foreigners and Germans
What the research portal Correctiv [which is funded partially by the German gov’t and the usual philantropathic suspects (see below), and I thought you should know that] reports fits into this picture. Accordingly, on 25 Nov. 2023, influential AfD politicians—including personal advisor to [party co-chair] Alice Weidel [talk about guilt by association, or Kontaktschuld; all that we’re missing here is Sippenhaft, i.e., extending allegations to family members]—met with neo-Nazis and potential donors. According to the report, these included the former head of the right-wing extremist ‘Identitarians’ in Austria, Martin Sellner [much more on this issue is to be found below].
The former co-owner of the self-service bakery chain ‘Backwerk’, Hans Christian Limmer, is said to have hosted that meeting [is there any evidence beyond hearsay?], now one of the owners of the restaurant franchise brand ‘Hans im Glück’.
According to Correctiv's research [sic], the topic of the discussions was a strategy for the ‘remigration’ of millions of foreigners from Germany, incl. individuals holding a German passport. The invitation already said: It was about a ‘strategic concept in the sense of a master plan’ because the ‘chances of getting our country back on a normal and healthy course’ are ‘greater than ever before’.
According to the letter from entrepreneur Limmer and the former head of the Association of the Bund Heimattreuer Jugend [Association of Patriotic Youth], Gernot Mörig, a ‘minimum donation of 5,000 euros’ was required for participation. They made it clear that ‘collecting support is a core task of our group’. The right-wing extremist Sellner was announced in another letter from Mörig [shockingly, political parties and their sympathisers organised and hosted a fund-raiser; yawn].
As Correctiv reports, Sellner presented a right-wing extremist concept that the AfD has not yet adopted, but has even distanced itself from: the ‘remigration’ of German citizens with an immigration history. There was also discussion about how this could be implemented if the AfD came into power.
AfD politicians present at the meeting are said to have agreed to the idea: ‘tailor-made laws’ for ‘high assimilation pressure’ exerted on people with a migration background, a kind of ‘model state’ [orig. Musterstaat] in North Africa where up to two million people could live, replete with advisors from the Federal Republic.
According to the report by Correctiv, party leader Alice Weidel's personal advisor, Roland Hartwig, was also there. Accordingly, he promised to bring the content of the meeting's plans to the party. It was also said to have been agreed at the meeting that activities would be set up in social media channels with the donations from the participants and with the support of the AfD. According to the report, Weidel confidant Hartwig is said to have promised that the new federal executive board [of AfD] is prepared to spend money and pursue issues that not only directly benefit the party.
The AfD parliamentary group leader from Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, is said to have said: one must ensure in his state that it becomes ‘as unattractive as possible for this clientele to live’. AfD member of the Bundestag Gerrit Huy is also said to have been at the meeting.
Mörig and Limmer contradicted parts of the Correctiv report. Donations were not a condition for the event; Mörig was the sole organiser. In addition, they would certainly have objected if the expulsion of German citizens had been demanded. The AfD member of the state parliament, Siegmund, claims to have been there as a private individual.
Intermission: is this more than a Nothingburger?
So, that’s the ‘big deal’ many in Germany’s blob are chattering about right now: a fund-raiser by people who, for all intents and purposes, seek to ‘build a wall’ and put ‘Germany and Germans first’. Sure, if put that way in the historical context of 20th-century Germany, that has a worse ring to it than when Mr. Trump pontificates about it, right? Right!
About Correctiv, a self-styled ‘transparent’ and ‘civic-activist’ outlet for ‘investigative journalism’, I shall note, however briefly, some of their funding: according to their own website, which includes data until and not beyond 2022, funding comes from a wide variety of institutions, incl.:
Luminate—the Omidyar Network Foundation (i.e., from the oligarch who owns the WaPo) and a flurry of ‘private’ foundations (Schöpflin, Adessium, Augstein, etc.), as well as the Mercator Foundation, a Switzerland-based think tank funded, among others, by Agora Verkehrswende (a think tank close to the German Greens), Bildungsnetzwerk China (looks like a CCP front org.), the Deutsche Telekom (Germany’s AOL), the EUR Climate Foundation, and, of course, the Meta Third Party Factchecking Program (on which they also provide ‘more’ information about their collaboration since at least 2018).
All told, Correctiv isn’t as independent as they are made out to be, and given the quite vague language in the above report, it’s also doubtful that anything ‘illegal’ transpired. But, hey, it’s o.k. to label anyone even remotely associated with AfD as ‘Nazis’ while making entirely unfounded allusions to the infamous 1942 Wannsee Conference.
Also, while we’re at this stupid ‘game’, we just note that the SPD Potsdam party HQ is also located at approx. 10-12km distance from that Wannsee Conference location; just sayin’…
Foreign Correspondents Actually Doing Some Reporting
As can be expected, the above ‘reporting’ has caused a small tempest in the Berlin blob’s teapots. And to double-check the above piece, let’s now see what the Zurich-based Neue Zürcher Zeitung had to say about this matter:
AfD Politicians Said to Have Secretly Met with Right-Wing Extremists to Plan Mass Deportations
By Fatina Keilin, Berlin, 10 Jan. 2024, 17:41 o’clock
The Correctiv research network reports on a meeting at the end of November at which donors, AfD politicians, and well-known right-wing extremists allegedly [this is the key difference to the breathless reporting above] drafted a ‘master plan for remigration’.
AfD politicians and members of the CDU Werteunion are said to have discussed a plan with right-wing extremists at the end of November to deport millions of people from Germany. The ‘secret meeting’ [lol] was about a master plan for ‘remigration’ of people with and without a German passport. This is reported by the research agency Correctiv, which is also funded with taxpayer money [here’s another crucial bit of information nowhere found in the above piece], naming numerous names.
In a rumour-like account, the five authors describe how the meeting in a Potsdam hotel is said to have gone. A Correctiv reporter was present undercover in the hotel with a camera and observed and filmed the events [which, last time I checked, is both illegal and, if we’d apply proper—nay: any—standards, inadmissible in court]. Rich entrepreneurs invited people to the meeting and acted as donors.
The first speaker was Martin Sellner, the head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement. ‘He lists who should leave Germany: “asylum seekers, foreigners with the right to remain [orig. Bleiberecht]—and non-assimilated citizens”’, the report says.
The Correctiv report is divided into acts and scenes according to the type of play. A central thesis is: the AfD only acts harmless, but it is dangerous. Although it presents itself as a constitutional party that is committed to the constitutional order of the Basic Law, it secretly intends to override the Basic Law. And given her successes, it sounds like she is on the verge of taking power [let’s not forget, as I noted the other day, that the farmers’ protests are due, in no small part, to the gov’t breaking the constitution]
How Radical is the AfD Really?
The central figure is Roland Hartwig, a lawyer who worked for Bayer AG for years and a former AfD member of the Bundestag. The report says that he is boasting about speaking for the AfD's federal executive committee that day. Hartwig was a member of parliament in the last legislature and is now the personal advisor to AfD leader Alice Weidel. According to Reuters, the AfD rejected Correctiv's account [another oopsie unmentioned in the Tagesspiegel].
The AfD politicians represented at the meeting ‘here freely profess ethnic ideals, unobserved by outsiders’. As Correctiv writes in the long exposé, ‘there are no significant differences to the positions of extremist right-wing ideologists’, which a total of eighteen [!!!] people contributed to.
Bundestag member Gerrit Huy is also said to have been present at the meeting. She is quoted as saying that she had ‘already brought a remigration concept with her’ when she joined the AfD seven years ago [would that qualify as ‘old news’ then?]. For this reason, the AfD no longer argues against dual citizenship, ‘because when you take the German one away again, they still have one’. Huy, like Hartwig, did not respond to enquiries from the NZZ.
Does the Right-Wing AfD Want to Lure Immigrants ‘into a trap’?
The Correctiv authors conclude: ‘As Huy puts it, immigrants with a German passport should be lured into a trap.’ [note that this is hearsay] According to the current legal situation, no one should be released into statelessness. The possible calculation is that revoking the German passport is easier if someone also has another citizenship [which is a different and, arguably, perhaps even more lenient way than, say, cancelling Ed Snowden’s passport, but I digress; also note that this isn’t a quote or anything, by which is meant: conjection, projection, or imagination by the Correctiv authors]. ‘Remigration’ was mentioned several times at the last AfD federal party conference, and the party is committed to it [note that, e.g., the humanitarian superpower Norway has an official program that pays up to 15,000 Norwegian Crowns—approx. US$1,500—to all ‘remigratory-willing individuals’, which renders the currently centre-left governed Scandinavian country a far right-wing extremist, right? Right! Also: yawn].
According to the report, the AfD parliamentary group leader in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, propagated that it should be as unattractive as possible for this clientele to live in Saxony-Anhalt. The street scene needs to change and foreign restaurants need to be put under pressure.
One idea was apparently a ‘model state’ in North Africa. Sellner stated that up to two million people could live in such an area, reports Correctiv. Then you have a place where you can ‘move’ people. There are opportunities for training and sport there. And everyone who supports refugees could go there too.
Comparisons with National Socialism
The authors feel reminded of the ‘Third Reich’, for example the National Socialists’ idea of deporting four million Jews to the island of Madagascar [the Branch Covidians also wanted to deport all ‘unvaccinated’ there, but if this is mentioned in polite society, no-one ‘feels reminded of the “Third Reich”’; also, asking for a friend, shouldn’t that be ‘six’ million Jews?]. The house of the Wannsee Conference is only eight kilometres away, they write—a remarkable parallel [as noted above, so is the SPD Potsdam party HQ: what are you implying other than double standards?]. At the so-called Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the National Socialists planned the systematic murder of European Jews.
According to Correctiv, the organiser of the most recent meeting was a group called the ‘Düsseldorfer Forum’. According to the report, communication between organisers and guests should only take place via snail mail. Collecting money is a ‘core task of our group’, the letters said. One goal is to collect donations from wealthy people and entrepreneurs who secretly want to support right-wing extremist alliances.
A name that is mentioned several times in the Correctiv report is that of the Cologne constitutional lawyer Ulrich Vosgerau. The lawyer has already represented the AfD in court [so what? Aren’t lawyers supposed to to that, you know, that lawyering thing?]. When asked by the NZZ, Vosgerau explained that he had taken part in this ‘purely private’ circle for the first time, which has met regularly for years and has ‘nothing at all’ to do with the AfD. The parliamentarians mentioned only took part as guests. He, Vosgerau, spontaneously gave a lecture on the problems of absentee voting [here’s looking at you, dear US Federal Election Commission]. However, Correctiv's statement that it had called for as many election audit complaints to be submitted as possible is false. Sellner also did not demand, at least in Vosgerau's presence, that German citizens be deported. As a lawyer, he would have protested sharply.
The detailed Correctiv text, which is riddled with strong evaluations, names plenty of names. One of those named, Hans-Christian Limmer, lost his position as a partner in the fast food chain ‘Hans im Glück’ on Wednesday—although he was not present at the event in Potsdam. In the Correctiv report, Limmer is listed as one of the invitees and as a ‘rich man in the background’.
Bottom Lines
The NZZ piece is lightyears ‘better’ than the Tagesspiegel in trying to figure out what went on.
I’ve yet to consider translating the entire Correctiv piece, mainly because it makes for dull reading and is, honestly, a boring nothing-burger. Why not spend some time on, say, the ‘Wirecare’ shenanigans or the Cum-ex tax fraud scandal (thank you, Panama Papers), which also involved members of the current SPD-led gov’t? It’s a little bit like legacy’s media’s seeming inability to report about Wikileaks, Seth Rich, and Julian Assange in an even-handed way.
At least the NZZ journo bothered to ask a few of the participants, which subsequently raises considerable doubts about the ‘reporting’ by German outlets.
Moreover, here is what one of the meeting’s key participants, Martin Sellner, had to say. I’m reproducing his statement (which I ‘found’ in his Telegram channel) because, ‘for whatever reasons’, neither German legacy media nor the NZZ found it worthwhile to afford a voice to Mr. Sellner, despite all the allegations listed above. Hence, here goes:
‘Fama crescit eundo’, the lie grows by spreading it
As with the ‘Christchurch hoax’, legacy media is currently using all its might to spread false statements until they eventually become the ‘truth’. I've already made videos today, given hours of interviews, and made numerous phone calls. Here is another written statement:
I took part in the event in question and, as on many other occasions, gave a talk about my books. However, my presentation was not about a ‘secret master plan’ or even its financing. I also didn't accept any money. There was no ‘coordination’ with the AfD and there is no joint ‘master plan’.
I also publicly raise all the points that I mentioned in my talk [in that above-related meeting]. They are widely and discussed among patriots. The supposed quotes from my lecture were shortened and taken out of context, thereby completely distorting what I said. I have never approved of ‘deportations’.
Remigration does not affect all migrants, but rather those who harm our society economically, criminally or culturally, form parallel societies, and undermine democracy through ethnic voting. This generally does not apply to European and other Western migrants.
In this targeted group [orig. Zielgruppe, i.e., some of the non-European and other non-Western migrants], I also make a clear and sharp distinction between asylum seekers, foreigners, and naturalised citizens. Of course, deportations ONLY affect non-citizens who are required to leave the country. I have NEVER claimed otherwise [there is no difference at-all to literally any other place].
I made it clear several times that no distinctions can be made between citizens—therefore there can be no second-class citizens—and that all remigration measures must be lawful.
Remigration also includes not only deportations, but it includes also local help, a dominant culture [orig. Leitkultur], and pressure to assimilate. The demand is part of an alternative to current migration and family policies, the aim of which is to organise immigration in a way that it does not exceed Germany's limits.
Long-term pressure to adapt should be exerted on non-assimilated citizens, such as Islamists, criminals organised in clan structures, social fraudsters, etc., through a policy of dominant culture and assimilation. This is accompanied by incentives for voluntary return, as have long been offered by numerous EU states [and Norway].
I further suggested not a model state, but a ‘model city’ that could be leased and organised as a special economic zone in North Africa. The President of the Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft, IfW), Dennis Snower, has already called for this. Such zones are also expressly approved in the EU’s new asylum pact dated 20 Dec. 2023.
Olaf Scholz has also called for ‘deportations on a large scale’. Nancy Faeser suggested revoking the passports of families of clan criminals. Only recently did mainstream media discuss the blanket deportation of all Hamas sympathisers, which was supported by numerous politicians and journalists.
Remigration is neither a marginal issue nor an extreme idea, but the central question of our time. That's why a serious, open, and fearless debate is needed. This is exactly what these Stasi methods and the crude lies are intended to prevent. People are trying to eradicate the term, but this will only make it stronger! In the long term, a German remigration policy sets the course of migration policy in such a way that Germany becomes a little more German every day—and not the other way around.
The comparison with the ‘Wannsee Conference’ is, of course, mind-boggling.
These are the facts, the rest are blatant lies. Unfortunately, I was blocked from all platforms, so I cannot defend myself against the reach of the lying press [orig. Lügenpresse]. I therefore ask everyone to share my Telegram channel so that as many people as possible can find out the truth
Insofar as I’m able to determine, the veracity of Mr. Sellner’s statements exceeds, by far, the ‘report’ by Correctiv, the breathless write-up in Der Tagesspiegel, and, albeit to lesser degrees, the NZZ piece.
I wasn’t present in that meeting outside Berlin but…
‘Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don’t have the right to stay in the country’, as reported by AP.
It is also true that Prof. Dennis Snower of the IfW at the U of Kiel, demanded ‘model cities in North Africa for remigrants’, as reported by Die Welt.
Organised remigration schemes are also part and parcel of, e.g., Norway’s approach.
The calls for blanket deportation of everyone who ‘supports Hamas’ united the current federal gov’t (SPD, Greens, FDP) and the notionally oppositional CDU/CSU parties, as reported by Der Merkur.
It is, of course, par for the course, to mention the exclusionary policies of the Covid madness that designed ‘the unvaccinated’ second-class citizens.
Oh, lest I forget, here’s the official press release about the new EU rules, dated 21 Dec. 2023: the EU will put together a new biometric database of all new migrants (‘Eurodac’), and while it remains mum about ‘model cities’, it also sets a maximum ‘adequate number’ of asylum seekers to be shared across the EU—at 30,000 per year. What, again, is the number of illegal border crossings and/or asylum applications in your country per month right now? (For comaprison, in 2022, Austria, a country of approx. 9m inhabitants, saw over 100,000 asylum applications alone.)
All told, Mr. Sellner’s claims are closer to the truth than much, if not anything, that Correctiv and Der Tagesspielel ‘reported’. The NZZ was doing ‘better’ journalism, even though it is strange, indeed, that those who are accused (defamed, slandered) in legacy media aren’t approached to comment.
Given the above, and while I personally don’t subscribe to Mr. Sellner’s worldview (which I don’t have to in order to report on it), he is factually correct more often than those caricatures in legacy media.
Hence, my guess is that ‘they’ won’t permit him to comment lest readers might find his considerations reasonable (as do I).
Very interesting read, and analysis - thank you