How Germany’s far-right gained, even as it lost

The injection of tens of hundreds of thousands of euros in taxpayer money, Naumann steered, would assist the AfD popularize far-right politics in German universities and bolster its pipeline of recruits. She delved into the beliefs and rhetoric of figures like DES Chairwoman Erika Steinbach, who “claims that there is no such thing as a place for ‘radical, racist and extremist concepts’ in her basis, however numerous unions and organizations, together with the Central Council of Jews in Germany, accuse her and different DES board members of ‘relativizing’ the Holocaust, or minimizing it by evaluating it to lesser occasions, and having ties to extremist groups.”