Alice Weidel recommends the book – the author defends himself against it

In a video interview with the Swiss magazine “Die Weltwoche”, Alice Weidel spoke, among other things, about the alleged “collapse of the euro”. Towards the end of the conversation, the AfD leader, who was elected candidate for chancellor at the party conference at the weekend, turned back and reached into her bookshelf.

Shortly afterwards, she held up a book to the camera that was apparently intended to support her theses: “The German Mark – how a currency became a myth” by Frank Stocker. Stocker is an economic expert and historian, works as a financial editor at the daily newspaper “Die Welt” and published the book in 2023 to mark the 75th birthday of the D-Mark. However, the recommendation from Alice Weidel, herself a doctor of economics, doesn’t suit him at all.

On the career platform Linkedin, Stocker published a “contribution to save my honor” in which he defended himself against the appropriation by the AfD politician. “I’m afraid that most of those who have now bought my book based on Ms. Weidel’s recommendation will be extremely disappointed,” wrote Stocker: “Because of all the hatred of the EU and the euro that she spreads in the video There is nothing in it about the alleged planned plunder and impoverishment of the Germans, and it is certainly not a warning, as she claims.

Instead, his book is “written objectively and neutrally” and is “diametrically opposed to the furor that Weidel is spreading.” The journalist and author made it clear in another article that he would not allow himself to be taken over by Weidel and the AfD.

Stocker also suspects that Alice Weidel wanted to recommend another book of his anyway – namely “The Inflation of 1923”. Weidel finally mentioned the year before pulling the volume from her shelf. But that, too, is “not a warning for the present,” emphasized Stocker, but simply a historical outline of the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.