{"id":1275783,"date":"2022-02-06T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275783"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:40:16","slug":"german-interior-minister-allegedly-wrote-for-far-left-antifa-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-interior-minister-allegedly-wrote-for-far-left-antifa-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"German Interior Minister Allegedly Wrote For Far-Left Antifa Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-interior-minister-allegedly-wrote-for-far-left-antifa-publication%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1237718446-e1644006189740-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has been accused of writing an article for a far-left Antifa publication run by a group that has been accused of having ties to extremism by the Bavarian office of the German domestic intelligence agency.<\/p>\n<p>Faeser, a member of the Social Democrats (SPD) who became German Interior Minister last year in December, allegedly penned an article for an Antifa magazine last year run by the&nbsp;Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA), a group that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/tuecken-des-steuerrechts-antifaschisten-kaempfen-um-ihre-100.html\">listed as an extremist<\/a>&nbsp;outfit for years by the&nbsp;Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/antifa.vvn-bda.de\/2021\/07\/03\/nsu-2-0-aufgeklaert\/\">article<\/a>, which was published in July of last year, however,&nbsp;the existence of the article was, however, only <a href=\"https:\/\/jungefreiheit.de\/politik\/deutschland\/2022\/nancy-faeser-und-die-antifa\/\">highlighted<\/a> this week by the German conservative newspaper <em>Junge Freiheit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The article concerned the 116 letters that were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-charges-nsu-20-far-right-threats-suspect\/a-59650083\">sent to various politicians<\/a>, activists, artists, and others from August of 2018 to March of 2021, containing death threats and racial hatred. &nbsp;and signed as \u201cNSU 2.0\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The letters were signed by \u201cNSU 2.0\u201d, a reference to the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist group that operated from 2000 to 2007 and carried out<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/nsu-germany\/a-39777036\"> ten murders<\/a>, two bombings, and robbed a number of banks across the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMost of the NSU 2.0 letters are full of disgusting right-wing fantasies of the destruction of dissenters. And all this news has one goal: to intimidate those who stand up for tolerance, freedom, cosmopolitanism, and the democratic rule of law in public,\u201d Faeser allegedly wrote in the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">German Populist Party Slams Social Democrats Support for Far-Left Antifa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iLd5MMd2kB\">https:\/\/t.co\/iLd5MMd2kB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1268817332522098688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A 53-year-old man was later arrested and charged in connection to the NSU 2.0 letters in October of last year and in her article, Faeser blames the internet saying, \u201cAnd it\u2019s probably really true that he wrote his disgusting pamphlets without outside help. But he certainly did it in the awareness that he was not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause in order to network, to strengthen each other in racial delusion and fascist fantasies, the internet is enough for the right-wing extremists today. This is where the ideological trailblazers meet their useful idiots. There, deluded people become violent offenders,\u201d Faeser is said to have written and added, \u201cWithout the internet as a global radicalization machine, the growing right-wing extremism of the 21st century is inconceivable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article continued by saying that the \u201cfight against fascism and right-wing extremism, racism and ethnic ideologies\u201d is part of the \u201cpolitical DNA\u201d of the SDP, adding that it is important to stand \u201cagainst right-wing ideas, right-wing threats, and right-wing violence. Every day and in every place\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">German Far-Left Extremist Police Taskforce Investigate Antifa Attempted Homicide <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00W9zzhnUs\">https:\/\/t.co\/00W9zzhnUs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1331909060191404033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The&nbsp;VVN-BdA which hosts the Antifa magazine that published the article has long been on the radar of German domestic intelligence, with the Bavarian branch of the&nbsp; Office for the Protection of the Constitution stating last year that the group had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/tuecken-des-steuerrechts-antifaschisten-kaempfen-um-ihre-100.html\">regarded as an extremist group<\/a> for years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Berlin tax office refused to grant the group non-profit status, highlighting the Bavarian report and according to the group\u2019s own federal chairwoman&nbsp;Cornelia Kerth, the group is under observation by intelligence agencies in eleven of the 16 German federal states.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Faeser\u2019s alleged article would not be the first time the SPD has cosied up to Antifa extremists in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>When former United States President Donald J. Trump signalled that he wanted to declare Antifa a terrorist group, several members of the SPD came out to defend Antifa, including SPD co-leader Saskia Esken who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/06\/04\/german-populist-party-slams-social-democrats-support-far-left-antifa\/\">stated<\/a> that she was a member of Antifa herself.<\/p>\n<p>While the Interior Ministry has refused to comment on Faeser\u2019s article,&nbsp;&nbsp;Martin Hess of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), told <em>Junge Freiheit<\/em>, \u201cOnly a few months before her appointment as Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser demonstrated her closeness to the Antifa milieu with this publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the magazine\u2019s editors who are influenced by left-wing extremism, it defames all positions as fascist or right-wing extremist that deviate from the left edge of the political spectrum in a communist manner,\u201d Hess added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antifa far-left extremists have called for the murder of 53 members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing their home addresses on a well-known far-left web platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOG54eYjRK\">https:\/\/t.co\/fOG54eYjRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1444391380642680836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has been accused of writing an article for a far-left Antifa publication run by a group that has been accused of having ties to extremism &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}