Intense reflection and serious warnings from the minister of the interior Nancy Feather and the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution are causing new revelations in the German press about close connections, but also about drawing up future political plans, between leading figures of the ethno-populist party.

In particular, the research network Correctiv revealed that recently known AfD officials met in a hotel in Potsdam, near Berlin, with representatives of extra-parliamentary far-right groups, some of them with neo-Nazi origins, to create a secret strategic plan, which they call a “masterplan”, regarding mass deportations of refugees and immigrants from Germany. In fact, the disputed plan, which actually foresees millions of “repatriations”, even targets German citizens who simply have an immigrant background.

According to the information that has come to light, the controversial meeting was allegedly attended by leading AfD politicians, such as Ronald Hartwig, a former member of the Bundestag and personal adviser to party co-chair Alice Weidel, as well as famous German businessmen, e.g. from the catering industry but also the Austrian Martin Schellner, who is called the theoretician and intellectual of the far-right movement of the Identity. It is even alleged according to the report to be the person who undertook the presentation of the “strategic plan” at the secret Potsdam meeting. Based on this plan, supporters are invited to even donate, starting at €5,000, to promote the “strategic plan” with the aim of getting Germany back “on the right track”

A condition for the implementation of this plan would of course be the assumption of power by the “Alternative for Germany”, which at the federal level consistently comes second in opinion polls, but also first in three critical East German states, which have state elections in 2024 The reason for Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.

But the fact that two executives from the right wing of the Christian Democrats allegedly attended the controversial meeting from North Rhine-Westphalia, belonging to the so-called “Association of Values”. They are Michaela Schneider and Simone Baum.

Awas the reaction of Secretary of the Interior Nancy Feser from the Social Democrats, who in an interview with Stern magazine wanted to underline the “defensive reflexes of the Republic, in which racist plans have no place”. In fact, she targets not only well-known members of the far-right in Germany, but more widely those who with inflammatory speech appear as “theoreticians” of racist ideologies. In fact, the German Minister of the Interior considers it right for the secret services to monitor corresponding contacts and movements in the area of ​​the extreme right. Members of the AfD and its individual local organizations have long been targeted by the Constitutional Protection Service.

At the same time, Thomas Haldenwag, head of the Agency for the Protection of the Constitution, calls citizens to be vigilant, stressing that German society is more threatened by the extreme right than moderate and centrist citizens imagine. Speaking on public television ARD, addressing “average” citizens, he said they may have rested “in a comfortable private life” calling on the “silent majority” to “wake up and take a stand against extremism”.

For its part, the leadership of the Alternative for Germany chose to distance itself from the “strategic plan” that came to light. He speaks of a purely “private meeting” and reiterates the party’s official positions on limiting immigration, saying that they are stated in the party’s programmatic goals and are consistent with what the German Constitution stipulates.