Right-wing terrorist murders by the NSU and by individual perpetrators in Halle and Hanau, for example, conspirator groups around noblemen such as Heinrich XIII. Prince Reuss, an increasing division in society, a splintering spectrum of parties and a noticeable shift to the right and now open violence against politicians on the streets of Dresden and Berlin: the democratic order of the Federal Republic is undoubtedly exposed to major challenges. Some politicians and commentators are already talking about “Weimar conditions”, others are at least warning against it – but does an anxious look back at the end of the first republic help us? The historian Ute Daniel tries to give a classification via video conversation from her Braunschweig study.
Are Weimar conditions threatened again today? – Culture
