‘An attack on us all’: how threat from Germany’s far right is being felt

Der Spiegel writer says AfD’s mass deportation rhetoric is ‘a kind of verbal violence’

Initially it was the co-opting of the world “remigration” that struck Jurek Skrobala. The term, historically used in social sciences to describe a migrant’s voluntary return to their country of origin, it had emerged as a key talking point of a meeting at which high-ranking members of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) discussed mass deportation plans.

Days later, as the party’s embrace of “remigration” continued to reverberate across Germany, Skrobala found himself gripped by fear.

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