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Björn Höcke, of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on the brink of a potential state election victory. He has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust and been fined for using a Nazi slogan. Watch an excerpt from “Germany’s Enemy Within.”

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49 thoughts on “Why an AfD Politician Is Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ Nazi Crimes | Germany’s Enemy Within | FRONTLINE

  1. hello from the Street Taco Kid (USA): Es war scho lang Zeit, dass Deutschland aus da EU aussteigt. De EU bringt uns nix, wos mia ned aa selber schaffen könnten. Da Präsident Trump zeigt da Welt, wia ma z’erst auf de eigene Leit schaut und ned auf Zuagroaste. I find sei Einsatz guad. Hoch lebe’s einst groaße boarische Reich!

  2. What A hypocrisy! TRUMP sounds more NAZI and more pro Lebensraum than this man and NOBODY IS Censoring his speech… and moreover there's a real GENOCIDE going on in GAZA! why not dealing with this in MEDIA MORE OFTEN, or, genocides censoring depend on what is the nation of the killed people?.

  3. how about israel paying reparation and leaving us all alone. stop using usa to fight your battles. murdering upto 100 million christians is ok for israel.hmmmm

  4. I'm not against Hitler wanting to create a pure white race by having Germans mate with people from Scandinavian countries. If he was that interested in confiscating material things and property he should have just deported all European Jews to Israel or any other country instead of sending them to gas chambers. Hitler and his elite unit the SSS projected strength. Perhaps the people behind the AFD feel nostalgia for the days when Nazi Germany was at the height of its political and military power.

  5. If AfD was strictly far right but not neo-Nazi, no one would be concerned. While probably 75% of AfD aren’t Nazi’s, they will correctly still be associated with Nazis if the other 25% is still around.

  6. This situations are very interesting for Koreans. As a South Korean, we also still divided our country and reunite will happen in the future.
    Economy gap, Second Class citizen problem, Immigrants problem, Different Ideology background, Etc.

    Personally think, East germans are not Evil. The combination of problems that They treated slightly bad than West Germans, Shortage of Public rental, Inflations and more things make conflict and show the result of AFD rising.

    But I think Many things change after WW2 in Germany, so they will solve or relax matters near future.

  7. It's important to understand that much of this party's success is a pushback against Merkel's liberal/socialist policies of excessive immigration, … At a certain point the electorate says enough and votes the bums out. And that means voting for the other parties, especially the ones opposing the excesses.

  8. Es ist interessant, die Präsenz patriotischer Deutscher in Deutschland zu sehen! Von außen sehen Sie alle aus wie Roboter mit jüdischen Prozessoren!😅

    

  9. People like him have success also because left-wing liberalism has become a dishonest business model, too.

    It feels a little bit like both sides, the extreme left and right, are feeding each other. Meanwhile the middle ground becomes smaller and smaller.

  10. I’m trying to understand this whole documentary’s context because the same Jews that are being chased out from Germany and the German people are being criticized are the very same Jewish people who forcefully stole over 65% of someone else land and still forcefully monitor and control the other 35% with evidence circulating around where this same thieves have continuously conspired to cleans the native people off the remaining 35%..

    I know a lot of people would want to disagree, but before then go and research on the promise made by the British and French to the Palestinian if they join hands together in one unity to chase out the Ottomans Empire and then after the secret agreement with the French and British to take over the Palestine as their colony

  11. We cannot access the full documentary of Germany's Enemy Within, neither directly nor indirectly via Youtube. And we live in Germany. Can you please see to it that this problem is fixed, especially as state elections are coming up in September? Thank you.

  12. The guys views are a bit weird but saying “everything for your country” and being fined for it is a bit much. It’s not like he performed those atrocities of years past. He’s a nationalist and his closing statement comparing the US is right.

  13. Not having freedom of speech is crazy, yeah ik you can’t make threats in the US, but saying “Everything for Germany” shouldn’t be a crime

  14. Total gigachad, most of Germany's past was made up by the victory countries anyway to install a puppet system with a very strong guilt and shame narrative on the Germans.

  15. I'd made some comments about this short documentary…Some not really politically correct comments…And Youtube censores had removedvthose comments ride away! The Big Brother is really watching!!!😂

  16. This is a way to white wash the current NATO and Western nations like the US and Britain for committing attrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, LIbya and supporting racist Jewish extremism in Palestine. INstead of focussing on the Palestinian holacaust you still stuck in 1940. This is exactly supporting Israeli prapaganda so they can commit more genocide.

  17. ‼️ After WW2 the Allies refused to prosecute the genocide of the Roma people. That’s why Mossad in Israel had to hunt down Eichmann themselves. The Catholic Church in Europe helped fascists escape to Fascist Spain. Many fled Europe or remained in Spain. Italy had no war crimes trials. A lot of war criminals across Europe simply returned to their bureaucratic jobs. The right wings groups rebranded and began the process of white washing their crimes. For decades after WW2 the US, its territories, Europe, Australia, all used the One Drop Rule. Forced sterilization and lobotomies of minorities. Forced deportations based on race. Even CA had large scale deportations of natural born Chinese citizens for their own convenience and maintaining racial homogeneity by force. You see the population decline in many of these countries where the government had a heavy hand in the populations natural breeding behaviors. 🫴

  18. Interesting how he uses Trumps "America First" slogan. Let me remind you, Trump is a convicted felon. Let's not use him as an example of what is good in the world. Lord help us all! We need to be kind to everyone. The past has shown us that we as humans are capable of terrible decisions.

  19. The documentary is very much in line with the mainstream narrative, which isn't completely wrong, but very one-sided. The experts cited here aren't exactly beacons of neutrality. Unlike the election results would have you believe, very few Germans want to return to any form of Nazism, however the AfD is the only relevant right-wing party in Germany at the moment, hoovering up the protest votes against an out-of-control left-wing government. The AfD has members who should never be given political power, so it would be wise for the established parties to take AfD voters' concerns more seriously.

  20. Once again, thank you PBS. If I had seen his answer in the interview earlier, my opposition to him would be stronger even though I partly agree with the content.
    I don't think just saying "Alles für Deutschland" should result in a jail sentence. But I do think anyone who takes this completely serious shouldn't be allowed to run for public office. And to answer a question like "why did you rob the bank?" with "you are completely correct, Germany's bank robbery laws are way to strict" shows pure disrespect, not only for the journalist making the interview, but also for the rule of law and democracy as a whole.

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