Germany | 11/30/2021

Germany 2021 November

Key Developments

 

Also in November 2021, far-right groups mobilized to the Polish-German border to “protect” it from refugees. The AfD tried to utilise the topic as a political issue. Likewise, it tried to use the debate about compulsory vaccination for its own benefit. The AfD-MP Roger Beckamp traveled on the 27th of November 2021 to the Polish-Belarussian border with his own Camera team to report for the far-right „Tagestimme“ which is based in Austria. He also distributed flyers („No way“) to the local people.
(German: https://www.tagesstimme.com/2021/11/29/migrationskrise-afd-politiker-beckamp-berichtet-von-der-polnischen-grenze)

The right-wing open demonstrations of pandemic deniers and vaccination opponents gained momentum again since mid-November. In the state of Saxony in particular, the situation virtually exploded. Here, the far-right “Free Saxons” often led the protests. At times, the protest culminated in the small Saxon town of Zwönitz. During some protests, there were clashes with the police.

 

International Contacts

 

In the issue of December 2021 of the magazine „Deutsche Stimme“ there was an interview with Tiina Wiik from Finland.

Members of the AfD Görlitz and the AfD Dresden joined the right-wing Independence March in Warsaw on the  11 November 2021.

Tomasz Froelich Vice-chairman of the AfD youth organisation „Junge Alternative“ from Germany met around the 15th of November 2021 with members of the Lega (Italy), „Rassemblement National“ (France), „Vlaams Belang“ (Belgium) in Belgrad members of the „Srpska Narodna Partija“.

On 20 November 2021, the FPÖ mobilised a big rally of COVID deniers in Vienna with 35,000 people. A far-right transparent was carried at the front of the rally. Hundreds of right-wing Hooligans, Identitarians, and other fascists joined in. (German: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/wien-zehntausende-gehen-gegen-lockdown-auf-die-strasse-a-0e23ea2f-8f84-400c-b846-25db59ade63b) One of the participants in Vienna was Oberst a.D. Maximilian Eder, a former member of the German Military Special Unit KSK.

On the 27th of November 2021, there was a gathering of far-right politicians in Warsaw. Organiser was then polish politician Grzegorz Braun (Konfederacja). Guests were Filip Dewinter (Vlaams Belang, Belgium), Anke Van Dermeersch (Vlaams Belang, Belgium), Steffen Kotre (Alternative für Deutschland), Milan Uhrik (LSNS, Slovakia) and Milan Mazurek (ĽSNS, Slovakia). Parts of the AfD were angry because they want to cooperate with PiS and not with Konfederacja). (English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi7fw3DT-9U)