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AfD in the German Bundestag. Hitler, Hate and Hooligans

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Lee Heidhues 2.26.2025

The gang of Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) Neo-Nazis are the type people The Felon Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance cheered on during the recent German election.

AfD the descendants of The Third Reich

Deutsche Welle continues to report on last Sunday’s German elections.

The far right “Nazi Curious” Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) captured 152 seats in the 630 member Bundestag.

Deutsche Welle found several of the most incendiary AfD members who will now have an outsized influence in formulating German policy; some of which involve hate speech and neo-Nazi activity in a country ravaged by Adolf Hitler during his 12 year reign.

Deutsche Welle 2.26.2025

https://www.dw.com/en/afd-in-the-bundestag-hitler-hate-and-hooligans/g-71754221

Details about each AdF Bundestag member were found on Wikipedia.

MATTHIAS HELFERICH. During his election campaign, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) banned Helferich from holding political office. Helferich had described himself in messages as the “friendly face of the ns [sic],” referring to National Socialism. Helferich also called himself a “democratic Freisler,” referring to a Nazi-era judge. Helferich later said that his statements were meant as parody: “If you are confronted with Nazi accusations as frequently as AfD politicians, you compensate for that in private spheres. You ridicule it.”
MAXIMILLIAN KRAH: is a German lawyer and politician. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019 as a member of right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). In April 2024, Krah gained international attention when the German Prosecutor General arrested his assistant, suspected of spying for China by passing on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to China’s intelligence service. This and comments Krah made about the Nazi era in a subsequent media interview were seen by observers as having triggered the decision by the European parliamentarian group Identity and Democracy (ID) to exclude the AfD from membership on 23 May 2024. Since then, Krah has sat with the non-attached members.
JAN WENZEL SCHMIDT became member of AfD in 2014. One year later he was co-founder of the rightwing extremist youth organization Junge Alternative (young alternative for Germany) and became their first chairmen. In 2016 he was elected to the Landtag of Saxony Anhalt. He became member of the Bundestag in 2021.
STEPHAN PROTSCHKA became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture. In 2019 he was involved in controversy after funding and supporting a memorial in Poland honoring German soldiers in WWII and the Nazi paramilitary organization Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. The construction of the memorial was partially initiated by the neo-Nazi organization Junge Nationalisten which is being monitored by the German intelligence services. Polish courts started an investigation against Protschka for supporting Nazism and defamation of victims of the Holocaust. In 2024, Protschka agreed to pay a 12,000 euro fine in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges related to his calling Bavarian state premier Markus Söder “a traitor to the country” and “Södolf” at a political event in 2023.
DARIO SEIFERT a German politician who was elected member of the Bundestag in 2025. From 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the Junge Nationalisten, The youth wing of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
SEBASTIAN MUNZENMAIER. German politician  AfD and a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. Since 2023 he has been deputy parliamentary group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the BundestagIn July 2017, Münzenmaier and many other people were charged with  grievous bodily harm and attempted theft of fan trophies at the Mainz District Court . In 2012, he was alleged to have been involved in an attack by members of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern ultra and hooligan scene on fans of 1. FSV Mainz 05. This was preceded by a series of insults by Mainz ultras that had been practiced for years to denigrate the Kaiserslautern idol 
Fritz Walter. The masked hooligan group had ambushed and attacked buses of Mainz fans, which also contained children. The Kaiserslautern fans were chased away by the defensive Mainz fans with sticks and bottles. During the scuffle, Mainz fans are said to have suffered lacerations and broken fingers from punches. A representative of the Mainz ultras testified in court that the incident was a typical “beating” among ultras. The press has been critical of the legal investigation . According to Münzenmaier’s defense attorney , the defendant’s apartment was searched immediately after the crime . The police found 
a telescopic baton , a balaclava and “trophy” photos of masked hooligans with opposing fan paraphernalia. Three of Münzenmaier’s co-defendants pleaded guilty at the beginning of the main hearing,  Münzenmaier denied the charges. 
 On 18 October 2017, the district court sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence of six months with a probationary period of three years and a fine of 10,000 euros. Both Münzenmaier and the public prosecutor’s office appealed against the verdict .  In December 2017, the German Bundestag lifted Münzenmaier ‘s immunity to allow the proceedings to continue.  On 17 December 2018 , he was sentenced in the appeal proceedings before the Mainz Regional Court to a fine totaling 16,200 euros.
Elon Musk the AfD Neo-Nazi cheerleader

Top photo: Trump and Alternative for Deutschland (AfD). Kindred souls of Neo-Nazism

The Elon Musk – Donald Trump Nazi American Coup d’etat – 2025

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Lee Heidhues 2.7.2025

Quick and brutal like Germany in 1933. Nazis Donald Trump and Elon Musk have their Reichstag fire. It’s happened and nobody has taken notice as the 250 year old democracy in America is burned to the ground.

The Nazi Felon President Trump may not like it.

The latest Elon Musk cover photo in Time tells an inconvenient truth about the presidency. Time Magazine which just two months ago The Nazi Trump was feted as Person of the Year for 2024.

The truth is fellow traveler Elon Musk has gleefully implemented The Nazi President’s coup d’etat in America with barely a whimper from devastated, somnolent and out maneuvered Democrats.

This is the condition of America in 2025.

An American Nazi takeover. So fast and effective.

The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, pronounced [ˈʁaɪçstaːksˌbʁant] ⓘ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a “ruthless confrontation” with the Communists.[1] This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

That’s why Elon Musk wants more than America to succumb to his Nazi ideology. He is campaigning for extremist the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in the February 23rd national election.

Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD, German pronunciation: [aːʔɛfˈdiː] ⓘ) is a far-right[4] and right-wing populist[5][6] political party in Germany. The AfD is Eurosceptic,[7] and opposes immigration into Germany, especially Muslim immigration.[8] The name of the party reflects its resistance to (uncontested by mainstream parties) policies of Angela Merkel with her insistence on Alternativlosigkeit (lit. ’alternative-less-ness’, a German version of “there is no alternative“).[9] The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, has classified the party as a “suspected extremist” organization.[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

Elon Musk. Soul mates with the German far right party and its standard bearer for Chancellor Alice Weidel

January 6, 2021. Nazi Trump got his coup d’etat four years later

“Elon Musk is equipped with unbridled communication power.”

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues – New Year’s Eve 12.31.2024

Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) boss Alice Weidel has caught herself a big fish, Elon Musk, as she seeks to become the nation’s Chancellor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel

The world’s richest man Elon Musk is swimming happily in stormy German political waters. Insulting the President of the country. Elon Musk has added German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the list of politicians he has insulted in Europe. He also announced a plan to speak to the leader of the country’s far-right AfD.

Continuing his extremist trolling and interference in German affairs while he blankets the planet on his @X platform

Injecting himself into the German electoral process campaigning for the far right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) as the February 23, 2025 election nears.

Plans: online Musk-AfD boss Alice Weidel meeting

The spokesman for the leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, said concrete plans were underway for an online meeting between her and Elon Musk.

A deceptively cheery anodyne New Year’s greeting from AfD boss Alice Weidel

That came after Musk himself suggested a meeting between the two via X’s Spaces chat feature. “Wait until Alice and I do an X Spaces conversation. They will lose their minds,” he posted. 

Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on Tuesday hit out at Musk and his attempts to influence the German elections.

“Elon Musk is equipped with billions and unbridled communication power,” Habeck wrote on X. “His call for the AfD is systematic: He wants to weaken Europe. Power must be limited: no business model must destroy our democracy. Europe must now use its power consistently.”

Concerns are also growing in the UK as Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, aligning himself with hard-right lawmaker Nigel Farage.

Musk has busied himself with taking aim at the UK’s center-left Labour government, launching a series of blistering comments against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

AfD boss campaigns on the slogan “Time for Deutschland.” For whose Germany is it time??

https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-insults-german-president-frank-walter-steinmeier/a-71191756

Elon Musk support for German far-right (AfD) unleashes political storm

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.30.2024

Elon Musk is Donald Trump’s Rasputin.

Elon Musk and friend

Yet the somnolent American public, save for the usual Leftie suspects, is silent.

Perhaps the American public, as usual asleep at the political wheel, is in such a funk after the election it is bowing to the world’s richest man. A staunch make no bones about it reactionary Musk seeks to ingratiate himself into the Project 2025 vibe of the lying convicted felon Donald Trump. As he prepares for his second destruction derby against the foundations of America.

One can look to Europe and quickly realize Elon Musk is not getting the free ride he seeks in Germany as he advocates for far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in the upcoming February 23, 2025 national election.

AfD recruiting poster

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 12.30.2024

US tech billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday reaffirmed his backing for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an op-ed published by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. This came just days after he had posted on his social network X that “only the AfD can save Germany.”

The chairman of the DJV journalists’ association, Mika Beuster, warned editorial offices not to allow themselves to be instrumentalized in the run-up to the general election but to handle guest contributions with care.

“German media must not allow themselves to be misused as mouthpieces for autocrats and their friends,” he said

Musk wrote that the far-right populist party was “the last spark of hope for the country,” which he claimed was teetering on the brink of “economic and cultural collapse,” and that only it could revive the German economy and prevent a loss of identity through a “controlled immigration policy.“

“To those who condemn the AfD as extremist, I say: don’t let the label attached to it put you off,” Musk wrote. “The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!”

In the article, published in German, Musk also praised the AfD’s approach to regulation, taxes, and market deregulation.

Although it was published as an op-ed by designated Welt editor-in-chief Jan Philipp Burgard, the decision to print it was met with protests by Welt editorial staff and led to the resignation of a senior editor at Welt am Sonntag.

Friedrich Merz, the center-right candidate for chancellor in Germany’s February 23 legislative election, lashed out at Musk, calling the article unprecedented interference that was “intrusive and pretentious.”

The AfD is currently polling at 20% and in second place behind Merz’s conservative alliance of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU).

The chairman of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), Lars Klingbeil, accused Musk of wanting to “plunge Germany into chaos” and compared him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

“Both want to influence our elections and specifically support the AfD’s enemies of democracy,” Klingbeil said.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-why-elon-musk-is-promoting-the-far-right-afd/a-71186763

Trump is little more than Musk’s preening German AfD wannabe

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 12.22.2024

Few if any of the learned WSJ editorial page audience are admitting that Trump is nothing more than a preening facsimile, akin to such extremist political parties as German the Alternative for Deutschland(AfD).

STOP THE AfD – photo Lee Heidhues

Elon Musk’s favorite German political party. The extremist far right organization currently polling at 19 percent in national polls. Prior to the February 23, 2025 election. Which was called following the collapse of the coalition government in Berlin. None of the German political parties will join in a coalition with the AfD.

It is beyond reprehensible that this Guy is going to be President, again. Look at Brazil where his soul buddy Jair Bolsonaro, who tried his own January 6th insurrection.

He’s been barred by Brazil’s judiciary from seeking the presidency for eight years for his abuse of power. Good luck with that in allegedly democratic America. Where the Republicans, the Courts and, yes, the Democrats bow down before this not so closet racist fascist.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, on Friday December 20th endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence.

Partners in far right extremism. Elon Musk and AfD leader Alice Weidel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Weidel

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Mr. Musk posted to X, referring to the anti-immigrant party, the Alternative for Germany, by its German initials.

In doing so, he is wading into German politics at a moment of acute turmoil, and at the very same time that he has wielded his influence in Washington to help blow up a bipartisan spending deal that was meant to avoid a government shutdown over Christmas. The German government recently collapsed, resulting in early elections, which are planned for next year.

German politicians criticize Elon Musk backing for far-right AfD

Anton Hofreiter from the Green Party called the AfD “traitors bought by billionaires” and “a band of fascists who have not only been bought by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin but are now being supported by a multi-billionaire-turned-right-wing-extremist.”

Asked about Musk’s comments, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “Freedom of expression also applies to multi-billionaires, but it also means that you’re allowed to say things which aren’t correct, and aren’t good political advice.”

Other German lawmakers from across the political spectrum criticized both Musk’s post and Weidel’s response, slamming “interference” and insisting that no other party will form a government with “fascists bought by billionaires.”

https://www.dw.com/en/german-politicians-criticize-musk-backing-for-far-right-afd/a-71117414

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather – He covered the White House for decades and speaks authoritatively

Judge for yourself