Wagenknecht’s link with far-right organiser
On 10 January, the investigative outlet Correctiv revealed details of a “private encounter” last November, at which politicians of Germany’s far-right AfD, neo-Nazi activists, and some supposedly “respectable” Christian Democrats and business people, discussed a “masterplan” for mass deportations of foreign nationals and foreign-born German citizens. According to Correctiv’s report, a leading AfD parliamentarian spoke about the need to change the “streetscape” of towns and cities by putting foreign-owned restaurants “under pressure”. The reaction to this report has been dramatic: over a...