Taranis
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It's the New York Times, so maybe some skepticism is in order...
See:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/...ternative-bjorn-hocke.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Amazing how many evocations of Nazism can be packed into a couple of sentences:
" At a chandelier-lit beer hall on Tuesday evening, the lean blond man’s voice boomed out over a crowd of hundreds — some middle-aged and working-class, but with a contingent of polished young professionals.“The AfD is the last revolutionary, the last peaceful chance for our fatherland,” declared the man, Björn Höcke, referring to the political party Alternative for Germany, and employing a reverential term for Germany, one of several nationalist buzzwords usually shunned in the country’s politics.
“Jawohl!” a few shouted. “Yes!”
When Mr. Höcke (pronounced HOOK-ay) lamented that “German history is handled as rotten and made to look ridiculous” — a subtle but clear reference to guilt for the Holocaust and other Nazi war crimes — the crowd responded by chanting, “Deutschland, Deutschland.”
Two issues:
First, in a very New York Times matter, the name "Höcke" does not actually rhyme with "Hook-ay": the ö is about the same sound as with English "learn", "bird" and "Germany". The e is about the same sound as "comma", "bitter".
The AfD are not actually pro-Germany. Even their name is an oxymoron. How can it be an alternative for Germany to withdraw from the EU, kick out foreigners and hide under nationalist isolationism? If they ever come to power, our economy is going to implode. The EU (or rather, the entity that has become the EU by today) has given us decades of peace, stability and economic prosperity, and they want to destroy all of this. Not because they want a better alternative, but because they're plain and simple Shills For Putin.
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