Key developments
After the death of Siegfried “SS-Siggi” Borchardt, member of the party “Die Rechte”, on October 3rd, 2021, a remembering march took place in Dortmund with 500 neo-Nazis. Participants were also C18-founder and Europe-Chief William Browning and the chief of the German Section Stanley Röske and Keven Langner.
On the 11th October 2021, the chairman of the AfD, Jörg Meuthen, declared that he won’t candidate again for the party as chairman. In the last three years, he was an opponent to the openly fascist wing of his party, his former alliies. (German: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-joerg-meuthen-kuendigt-ruecktritt-als-parteichef-an-a-d41711f9-9f8b-48ab-a4a0-db9d81c041b6-amp)
On 12th of October 2021, the AfD-MP Beatrix von Storch met the Gettr-CEO Jason Miller and Matthew Tyrmand in Berlin.
On the 17th of October 2021 there was in Dresden the 7th birthday of the racist PEGIDA-Movement. 900 people took part in the rally. Speakers were Lutz Bachmann, Siegfried Däbritz, Wolfgang Taufkirch, H.C. Strache from Austria, Tommy Robinson from UK, Irfan Peci from Austria/Serbia, Jürgen Elsässer, Dr. Christopher Berndt (AfD), Maik Waack and Gernot Tegetmeyer. Music came from „Runa NDS“, „Prototyp“, Ramona and the „Dresdner Liedertafel“.
(German: https://www.jfda.de/post/ein-unspektakulaeres-pegida-jubilaeum)
In Saxony and Brandenburg in October 2021 far-right groups („Aktionsgruppe Zittau“, „Der III. Weg“, „Identitäre Bewegung“, and others) played border watch to Poland because of the rise of refugee migration.
(German: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/nach-aufruf-der-partei-der-iii-weg-selbstjustiz-an-der-deutsch-polnischen-grenze/27737018.html)
On 23 October 2021 in Dresden, the Parliamentary Group of the AfD in Sachsen organised a „International Congress: Conservative Family Policy“. Participants were members of Parliament from the AfD in Germany, from Sme Rodina in Slovakia, from Vox in Spain, from the UKIP in Great Britain, from Neatkarigie in Lettland, from Vlaams Belang in Belgium, from EKRE in Estland and others from Finland and Spain. (German: https://www.addn.me/news/dresden-familie-aber-reaktionaer-und-ohne-frauen/)
International Contacts
In the NPD-Magazine „Deutsche Stimme“ from October 2021 there was an Interview with Paul Golding and Ashlea Simon from „Britain First“.
At the weekend of 16th and 17th of October 2021 different youth organisations of far right partys of Europe meet during the „European Youth Events“ in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Participating youth organisations were „Mladí pomáhajú“ („Sme Rodina“) from Slovakia, Juventude CHEGA from Portugal, „Junge Alternative“ (AfD) from Germany and „Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend“ (FPÖ) from Austria. (German: https://www.facebook.com/JABWoffiziell/posts/4423824294375360)
An 18-year-old female Fascist Isabel Peralta from the Falange in Spain receives a scholarship by the fascist party „Der III. Weg“ in Düsseldorf „to learn techniques for propaganda and combat.” Peralta was a student at a University in Madrid and active in the Fascist group “Bastion Frontal.” (English: https://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/18-year-old-spanish-fascist.html)