The AfD politician Björn Höcke uses Nazi language. A court must now clarify to what extent the story can be relativized.
The question only came shortly before the end. In the television duel for the Thuringian state election, CDU leader Mario Voigt and his AfD opponent Björn Höcke debated Europe and book quotations and discussed whether minced meat or minced meat is spread on bread in the Free State. But then the moderator touched on a topic of particular importance – for Höcke, but actually for the entire country.
Why, the moderator asked, did Höcke say “Everything for Germany!” at a rally in Merseburg in May 2021. called? Höcke took a long shot and pointed out that everyone was “destroying Germany!” with impunity. may call. In comparison, the sentence “Everything for Germany” is “a commonplace sentence”. Didn’t he know, the moderator asked, that it was the central slogan of the SA? “No, I didn’t know!”
Can you believe that from a history teacher and right-wing extremist agitator on leave? This question will be heard in the Halle Regional Court from April 18th. The charge is for “use of a license plate of a former National Socialist organization” – in this case the Storm Department of the NSDAP.
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