“Far right wins German elections for first time since World War II.” This is the headline most frequently repeated in the media across Europe since last Sunday. Read it again, out loud if you can, because I don’t see you’re very impressed: “Far right wins German elections for first time since World War II.” Or if you like: “Heirs of Nazism win German elections for first time since Nazism’s defeat.”
If you want, we can discuss whether the AfD is a Nazi, neo-Nazi, late-Nazi, half-Nazi, a little Nazi, or whether it is simply a tribute band, one of those that abound today and perpetuate the successes of the historical groups that have already disappeared. The truth is that in the European Parliament, even the far-right parties Le Pen, Salvini, Orban or Abascal did not want to share a group with them, after the German candidate justified the Nazi SS. And the winner in Thuringia himself, Björn Höcke, is on the far right of his own far-right party, that is, repudiated even by his colleagues and repeatedly accused of revisionism and use of Nazi slogans. If he is not a Nazi, he is as much like the singers of the tribute bands to the original, yes.
