The AfD are campaigning hard to bring back Hitler’s pre-1941 racist forced deportation platform (Nisko and Gurs), and also to block clean energy and make Germany more dependent on foreign states like Russia.

Johannes Kieß, a researcher specialising in right-wing extremism at Leipzig University [explains why a Nazi agenda of the AfD isn’t the only thing that attracts German voters].

“When it comes to energy policy, the AfD’s electoral success is not driven by constructive or innovative policy proposals,” he said. Instead, he argues, the party’s appeal is built on emotion, mobilising resentment directed both at “those at the top” — the political establishment — and “those at the bottom” — perceived outsiders.

Coal instead of wind power
The picture is different when it comes to the economy. Businesses say their biggest challenges are the shortage of skilled workers and high energy prices.

While Saxony-Anhalt’s coalition government of the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD) [and the FDP] is betting on expanding renewable energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and volatile energy prices, the AfD is backing fossil fuels instead [helping Putin maintain power].

Business leaders and economists have therefore cautioned against the AfD entering government.

Advising caution against the AfD entering government is like giving caution against Trump entering government. The only real difference is Nazis aren’t illegal in America.