“German-speaking Americans.” The AfD politician divides his compatriots into two categories
In the podcast of the Swiss journalist Roger Koeppel, known for justifying Putin, Bjoern Hoecke dwelled on his vision of Germany for over two hours. Koeppel announced his interlocutor as “the most controversial figure in German politics”. We didn't have to wait long for the proof.
Hoecke went a step further. According to him, after 1945, West Germany adopted a “substitute identity”. He means it “European integration and American culture”. The East, on the other hand, was supposed to retain what was “German”. For the AfD leader in Thuringia, this opposition explains why – in his opinion – the division between East and West continues to this day.
Indeed, the percentage of foreigners in the GDR was negligible: several hundred contract workers from Angola or Vietnam, a handful of foreign students, and Soviet soldiers who rarely left their barracks.
“Finis Germania” is coming
According to Hoecke, the elite of the Federal Republic is is not “German elite”. — She never learned to define German interests. This is an elite that cannot do anything useful for Germany, and in the worst case scenario, even hates Germany, he argued.
Such views are not new to him. Hoecke has been repeating them for years. According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the German counterintelligence service, this violates the constitutional definition of citizenship.
