Former Stasi memorial chief says the case is reminiscent of “East Germany when pacifist patches or a plastic bag from the West led to interrogation.”
In service of Germany’s increasingly anti-pluralistic state apparatus, the country’s mainstream press is striving to justify the state’s political intimidation of Loretta, a 16-year-old student who recently was removed from class and questioned by police for expressing support for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and posting right-wing content online.
This week, in the wake of widespread indignation sparked by an interview with Loretta and her mother where the two discussed the incident at the 16-year-old’s high school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Die Welt published an article with the police description of screenshots from social media that instigated the police operation.
Less than 40 per cent of Germans said they would be willing to defend their nation with weapons even if it came under attack, a survey has found.
With past and ongoing attempts by Germany’s political establishment to diminish the support base of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) having failed, Germany’s 
As a part of her ongoing oppression campaign targeting the political opposition, Germany’s activist interior minister has announced that the state will take action to ban the assembly of ‘right-wing extremist’ groups—namely the ascendent AfD, its exponents, and any other group she considers a threat to the left-liberal order.
