Investigative Journalism
It’s only four words, but they reveal everything - “I love Viktor Orbán.” With this sentence, Alice Weidel, chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, finally dropped the last remnants of her democratic mask at this year’s CPAC 2025 in Budapest. The stage - a right-wing carnival of authoritarian self-adoration...
Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, ...
Dr. Maximilian Krah presents himself in this tweet as a self-proclaimed thought leader for the youth – and in doing so, reveals above all one thing: an authoritarian sense of mission that lacks any trace of democratic humility...
From Goebbels to the AfD – The Rebirth of a Term. It is a word that casts a dark shadow over German history – "Lying Press / Fake News." A term etched with sharp contours into ...
A quiet but unmistakable crack is running through the republic. A report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, dry in tone, unambiguous in consequence: the Alternative for Germany has been classified as proven right-wing ...
And the Chorus of Hypocrites. There are moments when words are more than just letters on a screen. They are a mirror that reveals the soul of the speaker ...
The number of femicides in Germany remains shockingly high. In 2023 and 2024 alone, well over 600 women were killed – a nearly daily crime. Former Interior Minister Nancy Faeser publicly presented a situation report on gender-based ...
The Irony of Democracy - AfD and the Silence of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Sometimes it is precisely the quiet events that echo the loudest. Such is the decision recently taken by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)
Following its recent classification as “confirmed far-right extremist” by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Cologne branch of the AfD is reaching for a tried and tested method: turning to America. More specifically, to the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance...
In times when democracy is under attack from within, its enemies often masquerade as its guardians. Björn Höcke, ideological leader and head of the radical-right wing of the AfD, offers a ruthless ...
The world is spinning faster, but where is it headed? What seemed undeniable yesterday is now being questioned, distorted, and manipulated. The past disappears, memory is erased, and in the end, a new reality emerges
If the suspicions are confirmed, this could become a seriously costly problem for the AfD. Illegal party financing on this scale would not only lead to hefty fines but also carry political consequences—especially in the current climate,
For anyone still wondering whether the AfD is a serious political force or just a collection of reality-deniers, the ARD program Farbe bekennen featuring Alice Weidel provided a clear ...
The AfD’s call to increase the birth rate as an instrument of ethnic-nationalist ideology - This is how the AfD still ticks. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has repeatedly aligned itself with nationalist and ethnocentric themes ...
There are moments when you have to wonder if anyone in this country is still paying attention. While a climate activist in Bavaria is not allowed to become a teacher because her activism is supposedly incompatible with the constitution, ...
Alice Weidel is currently in Hungary to meet with Viktor Orbán—and instead of advocating for German interests, she used the opportunity to badmouth Germany in front of the Hungarian press. She spoke of restricted freedom of speech ...
The relationship between Robert Sesselmann, the first AfD district administrator in Germany, and Angela Schaller, a former leading activist in the neo-Nazi scene, raises a multitude of socio-political and moral questions. This case sheds light ...
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