First published in Respekt.
The new nationalist right is approaching power in Germany and, in their interviews, its leaders make no secret of their revolutionary plans.
Schools take down LGBTI+ rainbow flags from their flagpoles and raise Germany’s black-red-gold banner in their place. Citizens enthusiastically watch a plane bearing the word “Remigration” carry 432 Afghan criminals back to the realm of the Taliban. A Russian soccer team flies to Magdeburg for a friendly match, while German and Russian tricolours flutter in the stands. “I have always supported friendship between nations,” a German footballer said as he shook hands with his Russian opponent.
German cities once again look more native, with schnitzel shops, stores named things such as “Emperor Otto”, and, naturally, plenty of German flags. Black refugees smoke shisha in a gutted house and tell one another that they are bored with this Germany and that it is time to return to Africa. They then sit in the street on their suitcases as white German families move into the former asylum accommodation. The story’s main protagonist rides off towards the sunset on a blue East German moped, a flag in his hand.
These images come from the comic Uli rettet Deutschland (Uli saves Germany). It depicts what will happen if Alternative for Germany (AfD) wins an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election on 6 September and takes power in the federal state. The booklet was published by Compact, an extremist publishing house based in Saxony-Anhalt, and we bought it at an election rally for “Uli” — Ulrich Siegmund — in a beer garden on the outskirts of Rosslau.
