The 'battle for the soul of Germany': how the AfD election win played out | BBC News

There are no real journalists at the beeb anymore. The Trump edits prove that the corporation are just an arm of the nudge unit.

Right wing platforms are dangerous to citizens, not just immigrants. Don't be foolish people!!! Pay attention to what is happening in America. Despite right wing propaganda, the reality is, it is horrible. History will not be kind to this crap!!!

Come on AfD👍

At approx. 10.20 mins &quot;your party divides opinion&quot;...... &amp; the left wing parties don&#39;t divide opinion?<br>The BBC should be ashamed of this kind of biased reporting! What was once a great British institution is now nothing other than a dishonest socialist propaganda mouthpiece. <br>Anyone who has bothered to do some even some basic research will know that the AfD are not far right!

Germany stabbed it self by going against Russia and promoting war

Stop thinking you are clever calling them far right in a classic Soviet style.

The AFD is pro Russia, in my opinion, because after the reunification of Germany. What used to be East Germany was largely ignored by the West Germany, and the East Germans became worse off then they were under the communist rule...

Vox Populi, Vox Dei.<br>The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Blimey the Moscow bots are out in force. Needless to say a re-run of 1939 is not going to be permitted by the rest of Europe. Deal with immigration but electing an extreme right wing party to government isn&#39;t going to work for the rest of us.

Whoa

they won one state....

Why do so many people think that the national socialist party was a right wing entity?

thanks to all that stupid &#39;social media&#39;, the world is turning into a fascist, ignorant, violent, intolerant, stupid planet....tech will be our undoing

Well done AFD

Lots of trolls here.

The BBC speaking to their audience like children as usual. That&#39;s who they appeal to.

Most people in the comment section seem to have no idea how dangerous the AFD actually is. A party whose members repeatedly quote the SS (Björn Höcke), met with popular Neo-Nazis like Martin Sellner to discuss the deportation of immigrants with a German citizenship and claim that Hitler was a left wing politician (Alice Weidel) has no place in a democracy, especially after the Holocaust. As a German I find the success of the AFD very alarming and concerning. People seem to learn nothing from history and need to stop blaming immigrants for their problems if they don&#39;t want history to repeat itself.

With BBC, anything to the right of Karl Marx➡ is Far Right

How can modern Germany have one shared soul? that doesn&#39;t make sense. Post WW2 Germany is very removed from anything that came before it and its a bit presumptive if not offensive to suggest that large portions of non German populations share a soul with one another no?

propaganda believed by fools

AFD...👍👍👍💪💪💪 best regards from 🇮🇪

First they came for the Communists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Communist<br>Then they came for the Socialists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Socialist<br>Then they came for the trade unionists<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a trade unionist<br>Then they came for the Jews<br>And I did not speak out<br>Because I was not a Jew<br>Then they came for me<br>And there was no one left<br>To speak out for me

Oh please. Ten years ago UK voted for brexit and we all know why.

This is pathetic, a panicked Karen running around with microphone pretending to be impartial news reporter.

A very interesting and balanced piece of reporting. Vielen Dank! 👍

Finally some good news 🙌

Well done 👍🏻,now the rest of Europe

Thank God, at last the centre-right is re-emerging as a force in Europe

Germanys people want sensible political ,,, Poland,, UK, USA we just want change

Europe is waking up finally. We will be christian again

It&#39;s not FPTP like in the UK. Unless you achieve an absolute majority in Germany (it maybe any absuloute majority in the UK with the same share of the vote over a wide area), you&#39;re not guaranteed to form the government and be the senior partners.<br><br>It wasn&#39;t above 50% for the AfD.

Lovely

What a lovely reporter.

Liberals in the chat crying

Long Live Sacred Germany

Well how about that - the comments are diametrically opposed to the BBC narrative, can this be the reason people don&#39;t buy the TV licence any more.

The world is crying. Jewish families and LGBTQIA are fleeing Germany already. AFD want genocide.

The movie Citizen Vigilante provoked Germans to vote the right way. May the rest of Europe follow their example.

IN OUR COUNTRY WE ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO BE COUNTRY LEADER IF YOU ARE CORECT NORMAL GOOD CITZINS )) ANY POWER YOU HAVE YOUR LEADERSHIP IT WILL BE ON THE EARTH UNDER THE SKY )) SLOWLY SLOWLY SLOWLY )) YOU CANNOT GO OUT THE EARTH )) <br>MOHAMAD SANKUNG GAKOU FROM BAKADAJI JIMARA BASSE THE GAMBIA WEST AFRICA ))<br><br><br>WE LOVES ALL THE CLEAN GOOD HUMANS NO RACISM TRIBALISM HYPOCRITE DISCRIMINATE ))<br><br>ALHAMODOU LILAH RAB ALAMIN <br>ALHAMODOU LILAH RAB ALAMIN <br>ALHAMODOU LILAH RAB ALAMIN ))

&quot;The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept<br>voting for the axe, for the axe was clever<br>and convinced the trees that because his<br>handle was made of wood he was one of<br>them.&quot;

BISM ALLAH ARAHMAN ARAHIM ))<br><br>ALHAMODOU LILAH RAB ALAMIN ))<br><br>OUR LIVES JOIN TOGETHER WE ALL HAVE COUNTRY WE ALL EAT OUR DAILY LIVES MAYBE SOME EAT MORE QUALITY THAN THE OTHERS BUT EVERY WHERE LIVES GO ON IN SHA ALLAH

I just watched Zia Yusef have a discussion with a guy named Danny Tommo, rather interesting.

There are a whole lot of scared bootlickers in this comment section. Remember what happened last time you guys thought you needed a daddy to save you from people who were different than you?

The Nazis won 37.2% (230 seats) in July 1932. That girl saying they don&#39;t want Nazis is certainly helping to elect Neo-Nazis, ignorant. AfD = Nazis

Back to the painting practice 😅

Thank the lord. 🙏

EUROPE WAKE UP CIVILIZATION IS NOT THE WORLD ONLY WE ARE IN 2026.

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The world has already lived the far right “ taking our country back” … let them go. Move forwards

It really is time to let the BBC fend for itself, and therefore rapidly wither and die. Who honestly would mourn the loss of the BBC in its current form?

BBCa public British broadcaster my arse! Woke as the Green Party and corrupt as the Labour Party

Intolerance is not true democracy, AFD is just German Maga. Using the same talking points, America is corrupt and sadistic now, the same will happen to Germany if you keep going down this path.

Synthesized media spectacle: Sachsen Anhalt is 2,5% of Germanys population and has no influence. Now AfD have the bigger job of doing their promises. I predict next election they may be out already. Either way the CDU really needed this message and made all of this necessary and possible. And the neo-Nazis would vote for another party if not AfD and media are not pointing any fingers at the legacy parties the neo-Nazis formerly voted for.

A very interesting election, this now means Germany’s traditional parties face a difficult choice: continue refusing any cooperation with the AfD, or start adopting some of the policies that are attracting AfD voters in an attempt to win those voters back.

Over 90% of the comments here are <b>supportive</b> of the AfD victory..... That must be a shock for the BBC !

Anyone else remember when the BBC reported LIVE on air, that Building 7 had just collapsed on 9/11.... critically TWENTY MINUTES before it actually did collapse?? They even reported on whether there were casualties from the collapse - when it hadn&#39;t even fallen. It hadn&#39;t even been hit by a plane! Then 20 minutes later.... it collapsed.

BBC seems to be the same kind of BS broadcasting as Germany&#39;s so called &quot;öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk&quot; (public service broadcasting) such as ARD and ZDF with its outdated and cringy Third Reich framing for the AfD party.

My condolences to BBC

if its not even slightly left its Far-right!

Great result for Germany. Congratulations. 👏👏

So 45% of people vote for them ? That means they are on the centre and have majority. Don&#39;t you far left people relise your on the least favourable side ! Read the room BBC FFS !! The Nazi&#39;s were socialist&#39;s like the left !!

Not Far Right but Right So Far, and to quote JD Vance while speaking to eu leaders, the threat isn&#39;t from China or Russia but from within.

so weird how media try to portray this as a negative. Germany is a democracy, if this party wins its because the people wanted it too.

You know why it is so divided in Germany? Both sides have good and bad points. A logical, rational, objective and realistic policy is needed to addresses their concerns. Some goals and intentions as harsh as it may seem must be abandoned for the greater good. If it cannot be realistically accomplished either socially or economically then don&#39;t force it-unless absolutely vital some things cannot be purchased or paid for regardless of want. A state must be able to recognize this.

The policy of encouraging mass Islamic migration to the UK/EU, against our wishes, is in itself an act of terrorism by the governments of our countries

I&#39;m surprised the nudge units kept the comments open.

... Thanks Karen, now back to the studio for more heartfelt lies.

The old lady states the german values of human rights, equality, inclusivity. But how can it works with migrants and cultures who don&#39;t believe in these values, like islam or judaism?

Should have listened to the &#39;bigots&#39; that warned against Merkel&#39;s open borders in 2015 instead of calling them names.<br><br>Since then Brexit happened and now AFD is just inches away from power. All these are merely reactions to the breakdown in national unity and identity caused by mass immigration.

It depends on your criteria for “totalitarianism” as to whether the protesters, AfD and “online far right” (et al) are the existential threat, or the opposite of it: Does it exist in men marching to protest an invasion of illegal economic migrants in Portsmouth - or is the invasion itself, orchestrated with the state, the act of totalitarianism? Does it exist in people wanting free expression to make their feelings known, a more responsive democracy, borders, and perhaps even a pro-business taxation systems? Or does it exist in a state that imposes its open borders ideology irrespective of election results, as it seeks its interpretation of a globalist utopian civilisation, paid for by steepling taxes on its people (not to mention the human costs to victims of barbaric crimes and disintegrated communities)?. <br>Does it exist in people who wish for demographic security for white Europeans - a form of ethno-nationalism? Or does it exist in people who create multicultural societies in which racial groups exist in status tiers, as they compete for resources and rights?
<br>Does it exist in those that say offensive things that upset the state&#39;s sensibilities, or does it rest in a state that censors them and, in extremis, puts them in prison, or the employers than sack them?
<br>Does it exist in those that march in London calling for, or alongside those who call for, the extermination of Israel and a global Antifada? Or is it extreme that others are appalled by it and by the State that nurtures and appeases terrorist sympathies?
<br>Fascism was only one of only several flavours of totalitarianism that ended with millions dead. Communism was another. And the conquesting Islamic empires through history - who collectively enslaved and/or murdered tens of millions of people - was another form.
<br>Extremity is not the preserve of the left or right. It&#39;s the preserve of people who will go to ultimate ends to indulge their fantasies about how civilisation should be. Democracy should be the buffer. But so-called &quot;Liberal Democracy&quot; is its evil twin.

BAN THE BBC..

FANTASTIC NEWS, CONGRATULATIONS AFD ❤❤❤

The Germans are waking up after a very long sleep. This time im on their side and im a 27 year veteran.

The EU is failing Europe. This is the result.

Germany forgot what Hitler did.

Bullshit Broadcasting Corrupt Company 💀

AFD and the &quot;faaaaaaaaaaaaaar right&quot; 😂🤣😂🤣😂

For anyone who viewed the coverage of Portsmouth in the UK, please compare the violence the police tolerate from antifa to the alleged violence in Portsmouth on Sunday night. The beeb have switched off comments on that video, so that real people can&#39;t tell them truth. The British people are scared and are reacting to the lies the beeb propagates. Thankyou for reading.

Lol never a German or a European will go to live in a Muslim country so he says it&#39;s normal that he doesn&#39;t integrated 100% because a German will do the same if he go to live in a Muslim country. Guess what the numbers say the truth. You are coming...we are not coming...so please if you are not happy just go back

The far-right and far-left will lead to rivers of despair.<br>The majority of the people in European countries would be best served by a centrist social-democratic government, that was tough on law and order, patriotic, but not overly nationalist and definitely not woke. I am basically describing the centre-right or centre-left parties of the 20th century, before they were poisoned by the neo-Marxist virus, that was planned by various external cultural influences.

Smear merchants of BBC

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I am more than just a little bit uncomfortable with this female journalist knowledge of Nazi symbols. Has anyone done a background check on her before they hired her?

At exactly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XeU2UHoiwM&amp;t=304">5:04</a>, you cut- discreetly- the politician’s in situ narrative. Why?

Pesky democracy. Cry harder BBC

India made the same mistake in 2014, only to lose its voice and power, and the government controls the media, powerful government officials and brands people who raise their voices against them as anti-national, buys off the opposition or puts them in jail on fake charges. Now it wants to get rid of the ruling party <br><br>Conservatives always try to push the country towards earlier years rather than moving forward by saying things were much better in the pasts

Merkel caused this.

The Nazis are those who police others for their opinions. <br>Try to destroy them for wrong speech or even thinking. <br>Use state tools and media to destroy their reputation.<br>Sack them for their opinions,<br>Suppress opinions they do not like from even Universities and mainstream media.<br>Impose their own side&#39;s opinions on the public.<br>Force their symbols and flags to be flown everywhere to demonstrate they are dominant.<br>Insist the youths are indoctrinated with their ideology from nursery school.<br><br><b>Those people in Europe are not the likes of AfDs. They are the LIBERANAZIS who have been doing ALL these!</b>

Britain is Next

A corporation that has employed so many sex offenders and done their best to hide their sordid secrets, trying to lecture a country on ethics? The hypocrisy is nearly laughable had the crimes of their employees not been so depraved.

We see comments are allowed in the nudge unit echo-chamber then BBC.

Russia has to be thrown in the narrative to make it scary!😅

The Left’s immigration policy is extremist

YABBA DABBA DO - Great News

Many people dislike the AfD overall - especially their pro-Russian stance, economic policies, and anti-EU stuff - but are willing to vote for them because the previous governments were stupid enough to allow in over a million migrants, changing Germany far too much and far too quickly. (I am also an immigrant in Germany and relate to this).

honestly a beautiful, democratic party, no racism, no stupid support of foreign crime organizations getting sponsored for the criminal games, with the so called Bürgergeld, and easy traveling by criminal Schengen Law into the social Welfare System, EU is Dead.

It seems some Germans have forgotten their own history. Scapegoats and &quot;quick solutions will only lead bad times.

If only we had a proper socialist party to combat the AfD... maybe a kind of nationalist socialism?

make germany great again????? guess the history will repeat again, how pathetic people who never learn the history just to choose something bcs of racial things.

How strange that calling people &quot;nazi&quot; for having a different opinion, doesn&#39;t change their voting preferences.