From Martin Sellner’s (left) English-language Telegram channel.
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Left-wing German media outlet Correctiv reported on January 12 about a private meeting that happened last November in Potsdam, Germany between prominent figures in Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a rapidly growing Right-wing populist party that is now the second strongest-polling party in Germany, and Austrian identitarian leader Martin Sellner. The topic of the meeting: remigration.
Correctiv called the meeting “an attack on human existence.” The media blitz that followed drew an estimated 900,000 people in 80 cities to protests.
Founded in 2013, the AfD is a manifestation of the rise of national populism, defying the traditional Left/Right divide, and siphoning voters from the Left-wing Greens, center-Right Christian Democrats, and center-Left Social Democrats to focus on controlling immigration.
The party set itself apart immediately. In 2016, in response to migrant arrivals which were overwhelming Europe’s border defenses, founding AfD Chief Frauke Petry called for German border guards to be authorized to shoot anyone who was trying to enter the county illegally (a practice for which there was already precedent in Israel). Voters continued to flock to the party due to its hardline stance on enforcing immigration law.
While this may be its most compelling policy priority, it is not the only attractive position earning AfD its spot in the polls. Germans are suffering inflation that tripled in 2022. They’re seeing their tax dollars being diverted to fight Russia. And farmers who are already feeling squeezed have been protesting the end of a diesel tax break.
Germany is facing an economic crisis. Asylum-seekers have cost Germany around 22 billion euros per year since 2020, as asylum applications have tripled over the last three years. In 2020, the country received only around 122,000 asylum applications, while in 2023 there were around 350,000 people, the bulk of whom come from Syria, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
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Martin Sellner earned his activist reputation as the face of the German-speaking wing of Generation Identity, a pan-European identitarian activist movement which originated in France in 2012, spreading across Europe and even gaining attention in the United States at its height in 2017, before suffering crippling investigations in 2019.
The identitarian movement is a response to the European migrant crisis. What we call “repatriation” in the US is cleverly termed “remigration” by European identitarians. Last summer, Sellner and other young Austrian and German identitarians went on a tour across the country to spread the message that remigration, meaning the peaceful return of migrants to their homelands, is possible.
Their efforts paid off. Remigration has now gained serious political attention.
According to Correctiv, the purpose of this private meeting in November — which was infiltrated by Greenpeace (yes, Greenpeace) — between Sellner and AfD officials was to discuss “a master plan to get rid of immigrants.”
To an economically struggling Germany that is tired of machete attacks that are too numerous to cite, truck attacks, and migrant rapes (also too numerous), this sounds like a great idea – but it isn’t quite accurate. As Sellner explains in a video on his English-language Telegram channel:
Some people are enthusiastic that the AfD is creating such a master plan not knowing that this master plan doesn’t exist yet . . . They [the AfD] have their own plans. What I’ve been drawing out is a mere suggestion that I’m going to throw in the arena, in the battle of ideas.
Sellner is planning a book on remigration to be published later this year which will then be translated into English. One of his ideas is the concept of creating a model state in Africa to which two million people could remigrate.
The Correctiv journofa, for their part, are thinking of something else: “What Sellner designs is reminiscent of an old idea: in 1940, the National Socialists planned to deport four million Jews to the island of Madagascar.”
Remigration as Sellner actually proposes it requires considerably less imagination. The concept of a model state in Africa is not unusual, and in fact has recently been proposed by blacks themselves. For example, the Guardian reported last December that Senegalese-American rapper Akon, inspired by Wakanda, outlined plans for a $6 billion metropolis that would serve as a thriving sanctuary for African-Americans hoping to return to their ancestral homeland.
A rendering of the proposed Akon City.
Unfortunately, the only progress on Akon City so far has been a youth center featuring a mural of the singer.
Thankfully, we don’t have to wait on Akon City. Ghana, Senegal, and Liberia already have programs in place to encourage the African diaspora to “come home.” The Ghanaian Minister of Tourism, Oteng Gyasi, hopes blacks will respond to them, saying in 2020:
Please take advantage, come home, build a life in Ghana. You do not have to stay where you are not wanted forever, you have a choice and Africa is waiting for you.
Furthermore, the November meeting which caused such a stir is not the first meeting to be conducted in Potsdam surrounding the issue of remigration. In July and August of 1945, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin — all of them far from “neo-Nazis” as Sellner and fellow German identitarian Mario Müller are labeled in the Correctiv piece — negotiated the new Polish-German border there. The period following the Second World War was a time of great remigration for those who suddenly found themselves on Polish land. This was not at all considered an atrocity. In fact, it was unanimously agreed that the creation of ethnically homogeneous nations would diminish the risk of the outbreak of further armed conflicts. That’s right: Ethnonationalism was accepted as the norm.
A map of Polish remigration spanning 1944-1949 provided by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. Click to expand.
Another remnant of Germany’s post-war occupation is the establishment of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (or the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV). This intelligence agency is meant to protect the “liberal democratic basic order” of Germany. As part of rebuilding Western Germany, the US Army supervised this office from its founding in 1950 until 1955. Its methods of intelligence-gathering include mass surveillance, and once evidence is collected, it can recommend the that the Bundesverfassungsgericht, Germany’s Supreme Court, ban political parties that it claims threaten liberal democracy.
Its methods of intelligence-gathering include mass surveillance, and it also has the authority to ban political parties which it claims threaten liberal democracy.
What is a threat to liberal democracy? Given the history of the BfV’s formation, the institution is understandably allergic to expressions of German ethnic identity. In fact, it is so sensitive that Bjorn Hoecke, Thuringia’s AfD parliamentary group leader, was prosecuted by the court last summer for ending a speech with the rallying cry of “Everything for Germany!” As a German voter, this sounds quite appealing. Any member of a normal, healthy society would see a politician who stands up for his interests as desirable. But Germans are not allowed to think of themselves as a group with unique political interests. The subsequent political and legal crackdown has been so dramatic that it has made it seem as if thinking this way in Germany is akin to calling for another Holocaust.
Due to the protests and media calamity caused by the Sellner meeting, the BfV is considering banning the AfD altogether. The BfV has never before banned a party with such a high level of support, however. Despite the media blitz, the AfD has hardly suffered in the polls, maintaining around 22% nationwide and in the 30% bracket in the eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenberg, which will hold parliamentary elections this year. The AfD is also predicted to be a strong contender in the European Union parliamentary elections in June.
Is a ban truly possible? The German weekly Der Spiegel reports the Social Democratic Party’s General Secretary, Kevin Kühnert, as saying, “In the short term, such steps against the AfD are not feasible and therefore we should not leave the protection of our constitution to the Karlsruhe judges alone.” “If such a procedure before the Constitutional Court were to fail,” warned Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann of the Free Democratic Party, “it would be a huge public relations victory for the AfD.”
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The process of banning a political party is indeed difficult. For example, it must be proven that the entire party is anti-democratic rather than merely MPs or members.
Even if an outright ban is unlikely, soft-power suppression in the form of surveillance, lawfare, and crippling funding cuts are almost guaranteed — and given that they are carried out largely unseen, are all the more insidious.
German domestic intelligence is on high alert. Last December, Remix News reported that an operation involving fake Right-wing accounts had grown so big that information-sharing between agencies became necessary so that the authorities would stop targeting each other. The AfD is actively surveilled, with membership in the party being the only prerequisite for agents to be permitted to read e-mails and listen in on private citizens’ telephone calls. Buschmann is also pushing for a joint EU-wide crackdown on Telegram.
If you want to ban a party without banning it, you can also cut off its funding. According to a BBC report, given that the BvD was unable to ban Die Heimat, or The Homeland party, formerly known as the National Democratic Party of Germany, it ruled on January 23 that it should be barred from receiving state funding and the tax breaks that German political parties legally receive. This is the first time Germany has cut state financial support for a party without banning it, and it is being seen as a model for how to deal with the AfD. Die Heimat faced a ban twice as the NPD, and both cases failed. While the court accepted that the NPD’s ethnonationalist ideology was unconstitutional and anti-democratic, it was decided that the party was too insignificant for a ban.
The AfD leadership is framing the calls for a ban as proof of its populist appeal. In a statement to Politico, Alice Weidel, the party’s co-chair, said:
Calls for the AfD to be banned are completely absurd and expose the anti-democratic attitude of those making these demands. The repeated calls for a ban show that the other parties have long since run out of substantive arguments against our political proposals.
Despite her optimistic rhetoric, Weidel fired her then-senior aide, Ronald Hartwig, due to his attendance at the meeting and shifted her public policy focus to “Dexit,” a Brexit-style departure for Germany from the EU. Although her party’s base is more sympathetic to this plan than the general German public is, it’s not a politically popular opinion, with over 80% of the German people saying that they prefer to stay in the EU. Even among AfD members, support for Dexit is still a minority opinion. According to polls conducted in 2023, 52% of the party supports remaining in the EU. Widel’s baffling maneuver offers a distraction to alleviate the media’s pressure on the party, but also distracts voters from the reasons they supported the party in the first place.
Sellner believes this is an effort to neuter the AfD’s demographic focus and create a culturally conservative party.
In a video response on his English Telegram channel, Sellner explained:
What they want to do is destroy the wing in the party, weaken the wing in this party that really wants a policy of remigration. They want to have a Right-wing party who is culturally conservative. But that’s not a real plan and that’s not a real solution for the demographic and the migration crisis and the population replacement . . . They want to destroy the discourse and the consensus that’s been forming within the AfD and the freedom party for the policy of remigration.
Politicians are indeed falling into the trap. Marine Le Pen, who is hoping to win the 2027 French presidential election, threatened the AfD yesterday with ending their cooperation in the European Parliament. I was optimistic about Le Pen earlier this year when she distanced herself from Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after the latter betrayed her voters by abruptly reversing her stance on immigration. Right-wing populist parties are expected to make major gains in the European Parliament this June, which makes Le Pen’s cowardice even more annoying.
Germany is facing an existential crisis. A report from the White-Papers Policy Institute succinctly presents statistics from the German Federal Statistical Office:
Between 2005 and 2022, the native German population suffered a 10% decline from 81.3% to 71.3%. While foreign-born persons in the country now account for 18.4% of the German population. Their children account for another five million people.
For Germany to remain German, there is only one rational path forward: remigration. As Sellner makes clear in his video:
For those who are citizens but are not assimilated . . . high pressure for assimilation but also incentives, financial and other incentives for remigration for going back to the country will be created. A policy of de-Islamization will be created, and the push and pull factors shall be inverted so long term, those parallel societies will shrink. And we will become majorities in our own countries again. A policy of remigration, in short, is a policy in which Germany becomes every day more German and not the other way around.
At present, Germany and the United Kingdom house half of Europe’s illegal migrants. When we include Italy and France, the four countries account for 70% of all illegal migrants. A turnaround in Germany could be a turnaround for the continent — and ultimately, for whites and Western Civilization.
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I don’t know if Le Pen’s stunt will not ultimately backfire on her in her own country. It was at least silly, if not opportunistic or even revealing – will she just be Meloni 2.0? But it’s true, Weidel’s Dexit didn’t help either; it was the wrongest possible move she could have made.
As for the Potsdam meeting, the media of course had a field day with it. Nancy Faeser, German Minister of the Interior, even compared it to the Wannsee Conference, for crying out loud. Reporting on the “mass demonstrations” likewise was ubiquitous – but who cares? Most of those who would vote for the AfD know the drill by now, and the others wouldn’t vote for the AfD, demonstrations or not. It was just another attempt to (was it Frodi who coined the term?) bring artificial peer pressure to bear. “All of Germany is against the AfD!”
I honestly have no idea how all of this will play out. Will they ban the AfD? I suspect so. But what then? And if they don’t and the AfD gets about a quarter of all votes, what then? Aside from the WerteUnion, nobody would partner with it. The AfD would be outvoted and blocked at every turn, its disappointed voter base would wander off, and nothing would have changed. The only thing that might help is a EU-wide shift to the right, because that would suggest even to Germans that it’s okay to be on the “right” side.
Banning the AFD and having much of its voter base elect the Former NPD into parliament with 15+% out of spite? They would wish to have the AfD back within a week of sessions.
Germany is a hope. Germans are more aware of the difference between Europeans and Jews than other Western Europeans. Admittedly, they have been taught that Germans are bad and Jews are good. But this still gives them a different starting point than Swedes and others who generally believe that Europeans and Jews are the same. German media is anti-German but not as Jewish as American media. Moreover, in terms of values, the old East Germany is more or less a Hungary in the otherwise extremely liberal West Germany. All this makes the AFD a much greater hope than similar parties in other large Western European countries that are becoming very Jewish. The Sweden Democrats are very Zionist but the AFD tries to adopt a German perspective in foreign policy. The Sweden Democrats cheer for Israel while the AFD wants a ceasefire in both Ukraine and Gaza. I am full of hope.
This a superb article.Thoughtful,well researched and I agree with the ideological content.The AFD is comprised of many true German patriots and therefore the Stasi(BfV) are making a major effort to destroy it.The AFD is also good on economic issues,Ukraine and preserving tradional culture.Germany must remain German.The priority must remain immigration(no Dexit talk now).There is a wide continuum of European nationalist parties.The best is the AFD–the worst the traitorous Meloni.There will be a lot of pressure for nationalists to move in the Meloni direction(LePen).This would be a disaster for our people.
As for Dexit: AfD does not need to open this can of worms yet. The European Union would try to stall an AfD-administration in every step anyways, finally imposing financial “penalties” and then you don’t pay them and they keep on escalating and you don’t pay and they keep escalating and then you step in front of the cameras and count up all the problems with the EU and their penalties and indignities and conclude with “let’s leave this antigerman madhouse” and everyone will be relieved.
So far, the government continues to import non-whites. The goal is race replacement. That’s why the non-whites stop getting welfare money when they go back to their home countries. But if we had pro-White governments, many non-whites would choose to receive the money in their home countries. In fact, many Whites on welfare would like to receive the money in warmer countries like Mexico, Morocco, or even Madagascar.
The Jews claim that they were exterminated during WW2. If so, an international agreement to send them all to Madagascar would have been a lesser evil. The French and British governments would have abandoned their plan to declare war on Germany. WW2 would have been canceled, saving many lives. But the Jews think they have a right to live among us and to nuke any country that doesn’t like their company. When Einstein came up with the idea of nuking Germany, it was not as revenge for the Holocaust, which no one had heard of.
There’s much that can be said here. The main point, though, is this. When the public finally gets wise to population replacement and elects figures like Trump and Meloni to do something about it, these politicians need to understand: they have one job.
Excellent article Cyan. I laughed out loud at the only progress made so far in Akon City is a youth center with a mural of himself. How typical. I’m sure he envisions himself as the potentate. And trust me, the youth center is as far as the project will go.
With all due respect regarding their “only progress” it is not our concern, we need to focus exclusively on our people. White man’s burden is how we got into this hole that we dug for ourselves.
I think that what any mostly White European group of people do as a political splinter party to save their independent countries — Germany, France, Spain, Finland, etc. (all 44 European countries en masse), will be immediately labeled as “Another Holocaust!”, so we have to ignore the racket!
It would be a good idea for each White person (as adults) should arm themselves with as much money and assets to survive the future attacks. I think that is the only way to get through this immigration mess. We must have money to create our own enclaves within our countries of origin or of choice. Start saving.
«While the court accepted that the NPD’s ethnonationalist ideology was unconstitutional and anti-democratic, it was decided that the party was too unsignificant for a ban.»
That is not as I remember it, this is: The party had been so massively infiltrated by agents of the government that it was simply not possible to decide what was real and organic party life and what was provocations by said agents, therefore the case fell through in court.
Another point: If the NPD at the time escaped a ban for being «insignificant» why did the authorities recently bother to ban the «HammerSkin Nation»? The Hammerskins might have some street presence in the former east but they are hardly a threat to the system.
See the fun pictures of Generation Identity Denmark putting up large Remigration banners on bridges at: https://remigration-and-odinism.blogspot.com/ .
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