AFD, it seems, just gets a makeover. Your leader in the Thuringian parliament, Björn Höcke, become more and more the spokesman of its controlling right party. For weeks he organized in Erfurt large-scale demonstrations against the “asylum crisis” and stops there aufheizende speeches that would fit just as well on the Pegida marches to Dresden. On Sunday evening he sat in the ARD with Günther Jauch and represented with a Germany flag under his arm his views. The presenter looked like the politicians present overwhelmed.
Against the NPD or neo-Nazi violence perpetrators have been in this country a rehearsed rhetoric: They are branded as mental or real arsonists, ostracized morally. One them has its proximity to National Socialism or goes after the police and legal action against them. But against Björn Höcke does not help all that. Because Höcke is not a neo-Nazi – and this is obviously an issue for politicians and the media.
Already habitually leaves Höcke, high school teacher, four children, a suit and tie , slide the Nazi accusation itself. He expresses himself too distinguished, at least if he is sitting in a television studio. If it too hard on him, is in many unprejudiced spectators rather a solidarity to be expected.
But also the content it would be wrong to swing the Nazi lobe. Günther Jauch has tried it on Sunday when he recorded an excerpt from a speech Höcke of a demonstration in Erfurt. “Thüringer! German! Europe 3000 years. 1000 years Germany”, because he had roared into the microphone.
Whether it was not bad close to the “millennial” asked Jauch and insinuated unmistakably a Hitler-close. Höcke dodged expertly. And no one sat by.
Jauch was with his question, probably without knowing it, very close to the core of Hoecke worldview. Because actually the terms Third Reich or Millennial Kingdom not originate from the Nazis. They were made in the Weimar Republic only by nationalist-conservative nationalists popular. Among them were, for example, publicists and constitutional law like Arthur Moeller van den Bruck or Carl Schmitt. The vocabulary of this elitist democracy enemies attacked the NSDAP then only, and built it into its propaganda.
Admittedly, it may be a bit tedious. But who wants to understand the thinking, speaking and acting by Björn Höcke, has little deeper into German history and immerse those of the Nationalist movement. Because Höcke and many protagonists of AFD or Pegida not refer to Nazism, but to its predecessor – the so-called Young Conservatives and the Conservative Revolution. For them, the people had an organization where each and every one its biologically predetermined place has (the wife those of child-rearing).
When people talk like Höcke
of Germany, they mean not the Federal Republic, but a metaphysical destiny community whose culture is immutable. Individual freedoms, diversity of lifestyles, even “foreign culture” immigration is a threat and a look of decay for them per se. The Young Conservatives envisioned a hierarchy stands with solid top and bottom, free elections and parliamentary system they despised.
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