QAnon is thriving in Germany, and the extreme right is delighted
In Germany, like in the United States, far-right activists were the first to make QAnon an unexpected and volatile new political element when the authorities were already struggling to root out extremist networks.
Berlin | Early in the pandemic, as thousands of American troops began NATO manoeuvres in Germany, Attila Hildmann did a quick YouTube search to see what it was all about. He quickly came across videos posted by German followers of QAnon.
In their telling, this was no NATO exercise. It was a covert operation by US President Donald Trump to liberate Germany from Chancellor Angela Merkel's government — something they applauded.
