Merkel's refugees increase historical profits for extreme right-wing nationalism

Up to this point, Germany was a country and society in which Hitler's historic memory of the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s had ensured that every policy, even the smallest one suggesting restoring the difficult right of Nazism, could never gain very serious attention.

That such a policy is now registered under Merkel's clothing marks a low point in her political career, representing a stain on her legacy as she begins in her fourth term as Chancellor.

It is hard to imagine that if not before there is reason to deteriorate its decision to open Germany's borders in the face of the refugee crisis that erupted in southern Mediterranean Europe in 2015.

Millions of men, women, and children arrived using all means to move by ship, making travel dangerous in many cases that have resulted fatally, across the Mediterranean from North Africa, desperate to escape the chaos that swept through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia and to take refuge in Western foreign policy.

Merkel, in what her supporters in Germany and fans abroad viewed as a remarkable humanitarian act, decided to open Germany's borders in early September 2015 in the face of opposition within Germany and across the EU; especially in transit countries like Hungary, whose prime minister Viktor Orban soon gained a reputation for severity in dealing with refugees and asylum seekers.

The German Chancellor's open door policy result was the influx of over a million asylum seekers to Germany by the end of 2015.

Amid the current anti-migrating and anti-refuge climate that prevails in Europe, most of it is rooted in legitimate concerns about security and understandable fears of terrorism, but many of them are rooted in racism and xenophobia -- German Chancellor's decision to allow such a large number in Germany in such a short space of time -- was in retrospect, politically catastrophic.

In an article published in “Der Spiegel” in February 2016, we learn that “Conditions for refugees [in Germany] are already worsening rapidly. Social benefits are being reduced, restrictions are being imposed on the family union in a way that will lead even more women and children to make the hazardous cruise to Europe. The number of countries designated as safe will rise, allowing the most slight rejection and expulsion of asylum applicants. And there will be a forced repatriation of Afghan citizens to the country that Western soldiers are unable to calm and now sink into civil war”.

What Merkel and her supporters have just learned, after having cast a million votes for other parties -- most of them AfD -- is that Germany is no longer immune to the revival of racial, religious and ethnocentric nationalism and policies that have been inclusive throughout Europe and the West in recent years.

The far-right AfD party, which among the campaign's promises included a promise to prevent what they described as a “foreign invasion”, is a party that seems to have made peace with Germany's Nazi past, even though its officials and supporters deny any connection to Nazi ideology.

Its success is surprising after the party was created only in 2013 to initially protest the rescue of controversial EU countries like Greece, before becoming an anti-imigration party, completing space in German politics opened by the reaction to Merkel's open door policy.

In May the W-like AfD could be respected The elite in the United Kingdom and the National Order of Le Penée in France, declassified with the ethics of Neofashists and racists by their opponents, while still claiming to stand for traditional values and strong borders in order to prevent countries that have been “exceeded” with migrants and refugees.

The main location of their anger is Islam and Muslims; this is in the context of the events in the Middle East and at the same time in the rise of the tide of terrorist attacks across Europe in recent years, including Germany, which has been carried out under the cause of Jihadism-Selefij.

With Germany dwelling in the largest Muslim population in Europe, with 4.8 million and with the growing attraction of Islamic widows, not only within Muslim countries, but also in Muslim communities in countries such as Germany, components for the rise in support of anti-Muslims as political formations like AfD have been in the country for some time.

In December 2015, Germany's SPC deputy leader, Sigmar Gabriel (now Minister of Foreign Affairs), gave an interview to a German newspaper in which he attacked Saudi influence worldwide and within the German Muslim community: “Vigamis are financed worldwide from Saudi Arabia”, he said, before continuing “in Germany, many dangerous Islamists come from these communities<3>. German minister's words about the warning of Saudi influence - unprecedented for a large European politician - were linked to a German intelligence that reports that there were 7,900 salaphs living in Germany.

Returning German election results in 2017 and yet, as with the support U enjoyed KIPUE in Britain, climaxing in the Brex and Le Pen National Front in France, which enjoyed historic benefits in French elections earlier this year, many would attribute the AfDU result to voting a protest against the main parties, complacency when it comes to exiting and increasing the withdrawal of ideologically motivated rights would be foolish.

After all, if European history teaches us something, it's about fascism, a cloud that's no bigger than a man's hand can be a triggerer of major storms that will come” /Periscopi/

It says: John Wright, translate and adapt Periscope.