The ordinary Germans turning to the far-right
It’s not disillusioned old people hankering back to Germany’s past, but overwhelmingly young people who want a future free of multiculturalism.
Supporters of the far-right Zukunft Heimat (Homeland Future) movement, including some with black T-shirts that read: “Love of homeland is not a crime,” at a gathering on German Unity Day on October 3, 2023. Getty
What does a Nazi look like in 2024? Is it the slender waitress with the nose piercing? The dapper pensioner in his checked shirt and neatly pressed chinos? Those students sitting on that bench beneath the benign gaze of the Goethe-Schiller monument?
“Calling us Nazis is just a cheap slur. There is nothing wrong about wanting our country back – Germany for the Germans,” says Harald, the pensioner (and, to a greater or lesser degree, the waitress and the students).
The Telegraph London
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