German AfD Party Flirts with Nazi History Ahead of Congress

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer

Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is different from its sister movements across the west. In a country deeply conscious of its own history, the party, now riding high in the polls, has to decide whether it rejects or embraces Hitler as an ideological antecedent. Rather than answering definitively, the party is delibe...

By Katja Hoyer