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Demonstration of the Young Alternative Saxony (2018)

Photo: Sebastian Kahnert / picture alliance / dpa

For the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the entire AfD youth organization Junge Alternative (JA) is definitely right-wing extremist. There are numerous reports about how JA officials talk and what beliefs they hold (read more here).

Research by RTL now shows an example of what can apparently be said unchallenged about the AfD's young generation. Reporters went undercover on a hike organized by JA Sachsen last November.

According to the report, participants spoke about the ghettoization of Jews, labor camps for people of foreign origin and similar topics that are common in right-wing extremist circles. “The solution with the Jews would be to assign them an area where they can all go,” one participant is quoted as saying in the video, according to the RTL memorial protocol.

“Looking for volunteers who are prepared to shoot women and children even if necessary.”

Then it's about all people of foreign origin: They should be put in ghettos. There should be a residential and a working ghetto. Entry and exit will be controlled and people will be fed enough, but not excessively. “The goal is for them to get so comfortable with it that at some point they can go back to the land of their ancestors.”

When asked how one should deal with an aggressive reaction from those imprisoned, one participant said that there must be a certain willingness to use violence. "As a state, I would look for volunteers who are prepared to shoot women and children if necessary."

In addition, according to the report, there was discussion about how the “healthy population” could be maintained. A married couple must have at least four children, at least three of whom must live past the age of five.

Several participants in the hike are also said to have shown sympathy for a violent coup. According to this, tribunals of elected lay judges are needed to convict and then execute “criminals who have violated the property of the people” – such as Olaf Scholz.

According to RTL, JA representatives at the event did nothing to counter such statements. When asked by RTL, the AfD and JA said they would distance themselves from anti-constitutional and inhumane statements. However, the JA suggests that undercover agents from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution intentionally made anti-constitutional statements - without providing any evidence for this.

The RTL report comes one day after a decision by the Cologne Administrative Court was announced. In an expedited procedure, it dismissed a lawsuit by the AfD and JA against the classification of the party's junior members as confirmed right-wing extremist efforts by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The decision is not yet legally binding.

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