“Put in a ghetto”
Camp fantasies at the Junge Alternative in Saxony
February 6, 2024, 8:44 p.m
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At an event organized by the AfD youth organization in Saxony, ideas about work camps or deportations were apparently tacitly accepted. The Young Alternative and the mother party distance themselves – and suspect “agents provocateurs” behind it.
At an event organized by the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative (JA) in Saxony, participants talk about deportations and their path to a supposedly ethnically homogeneous society. “Each family would have to have four children, at least three of whom would have to survive the age of five in order to then produce offspring at some point.” This is reported by the RTL magazine “Extra”, which followed the event.
In the presence of members of JA Sachsen, the participants not only talk about ideas about the deportations of Jews and migrants, but also about camps. “There are then work camps and residential camps. They should be given something to eat and they have to do something to ensure that they have warm accommodation. This should last until they get so tired of it that they can go to their home countries on their own .”
The political scientist Johannes Varwick from the University of Halle-Wittenberg classifies these statements with a view to freedom of expression: “It is permissible to say, ‘I want to have less migration’ or, for my part, ‘there are too many foreigners here for me’. That can be done “You may think it’s good or bad, but that’s a permissible position in a democracy,” said Varwick. “But it’s not permissible to talk about wanting to remigrate masses of people. That’s a ticket to civil war if we deny millions of people the legitimacy to live here, even if they have a German passport.”
AfD distances itself
Further relevant statements were made at the event. “I would just intern them first, put them in a ghetto. They have an obligation to go to work. You could set up workshops like that, for example. In order for them to get food and a warm roof over their heads, they obviously have to perform .” According to the participants, the following is necessary to implement these proposals: “There needs to be a certain willingness to use violence among the German people. (…) As a state, I would look for volunteers who are prepared to shoot women and children if necessary.” According to “RTL Extra”, these statements were not contradicted at the event.
In response to a request for a statement on the observed events, both the AfD and the JA distance themselves from unconstitutional and inhumane statements, including in connection with terms such as “ghettoization and the death penalty” and state that such statements are part of both their program and theirs contradicts guiding ethical convictions.
In addition, it cannot be ruled out that possible unconstitutional statements were made by “agents provocateurs” of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The Cologne Administrative Court recently decided that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution can classify and treat the AfD youth organization as a confirmed extremist effort.
RTL will show the complete research today at 10:35 p.m. in EXTRA.