S5E12 | Germany's Elections - AfD Party, anti-Immigrant politics & American neo-Nazis

Did you know that Helmut Kohl, the German Chancellor (1982-99), implemented a planto deport Turkish immigrant back to Türkiye?

This is the History of Immigration & Far-right Politics in Germany.

Mr. Elon Musk & Vice Pres. JD Vance have endorsed the AfD - Germany's anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, far-right party. And although the AfD commands 20% of the German vote, other parties refuse to form a coalition government with it.

In this interview, I discuss the following with my guest:

►Germany's economic headwinds and growing budget challenges

►the rise of the AfD in German elections

►Why is the AfD being investigated by German authorities?

►What is JAfD?

►How Germany's unification was more like an acquisition than a merger

►For Germans, does the Berlin Wall still exist?

►Roots of racism in East Germany compared to West Germany

►Was the post-WWII de-Nazification a success?

►What is PEGIDA?

►Which ethnic groups commit the most crime in Germany?

►Who is Gerhard Rex Lauck?

►How did America export Nazi propaganda back to Germany?

►What is Ausländer?

►What was Helmut Kohl's plan for exporting Turks?

►Why were Turks called "guest" workers?

►What is Almanci?

🚩About My Guest:

My guest is Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn, a Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History, a book that we discuss in this interview, along with her article "The American Influence on German Neo-Nazism: An Entangled History of Hate, 1970s–1990s: The Journal of Holocaust Research: Vol 35 , No 2 - Get Access".

Her second and upcoming book project investigates the transatlantic connections between German and American neo-Nazis from the fall of the Third Reich through the reunification of divided Germany and the rise of the Internet era.

Dr. Kahn has received many grants and awards, including the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize of the German Historical Institute. She was a Guest Scholar at the University of Cologne and serves on the Editorial Board of The New Fascism Syllabus.

You can watch my interview with her at our YouTube channel:

https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-S5E9-Germany

🚩Other Mentioned Interviews:

🎧 S5EA: Is America Making Germany's Past Mistakes?

🚩Image attribution:

Image of German flag by Chickenonline from Pixabay

🚩Adel Aali

host & producer

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