By Athena Papakosta

Last weekend the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) held its conference in Saxony. In it he presented his vision for the next day in the country with closed borders, Russian natural gas flowing and Berlin outside the Eurozone, but within a new confederation of states.

The key word of one Germany with the extreme right AfD at the wheel would be the word “repatriation” (remigration), which is now formulated by the co-leader of the party and candidate for the chancellor herself, Alice Weidel.

But what exactly does the AfD mean by repeating the repatriation? Critics say the term is a euphemism for one blatantly racist mass deportation plan or as Gzero notes it could be interpreted as a “kind of ethnic cleansing marketed in fancy dress”

As experts explain, the term does not only apply to asylum seekers but also to German passport holders with immigrant roots.

Also, the fact that the repatriation was (first) formulated a year before the Austrian far-right cannot go unnoticed Martin Zellnerwho was a co-organizer of the secret conspiratorial meeting in Potsdam which was attended by AfD officials in addition to other far-right extremists and neo-Nazis.

At the same time, the news that local branch of the far-right party in the city of Karlsruhe distributed fake plane tickets to migrants with the motto “it’s nice in your country too” and a “travel” date of February 23, the date of the federal elections in the country.

Alice Weidel has been described as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. She herself does not meet the criteria of a far-right model. She is married to Sara Bossard, originally from Sri Lanka, with whom they live in Switzerland and have two sons. After graduating, Weidel, now 45, worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, while her PhD is on China’s pension system.

At the moment she remains in the spotlight with Elon Musk by her side, who a week ago… met her digitally in a conversation where, among other things, we heard that Stupid Hitler was a communist (he wasn’t) and that her party “Alternative for Germany’ is a ‘conservative’ party (it is not).

For analysts, Weidel embodies an attempt by the AfD to hide behind a smiling face in a country where many still believe in the need to avoid the mistakes of the dark Nazi past. However, her appearance last weekend at the party’s congress in Saxony, when she addressed her most loyal supporters, did not bring smiles.

Her political persona may have seemed mild, but her words were incendiary. The banned Nazi slogan Alles für Deutschland (all for Germany) transliterated as Alice für Deutschland (Alice for Germany) heard spread fear at a time when the country is counting down to election day in February 23 and the AfD is strengthening in the polls in second place at the national level.