Chancellor
Scholz: “Remigration” plans like Nazi racial ideology
“What we are currently experiencing here in our country really concerns us all – each and every one of us,” says Chancellor Olaf Scholz. photo
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Chancellor Scholz supports the demonstrators against right-wing extremism in a video. He describes the “remigration” plans of right-wing radicals as an “attack on our democracy.”
“If there is something that can never have a place in Germany again, then it is the national socialist racial ideology. Nothing else is expressed in the extremists’ repulsive resettlement plans,” he says in the new edition of his video series “Kanzler Kompakt”, which was published. “They are an attack on our democracy – and therefore on all of us.”
Scholz emphasized that all people in Germany are now called upon to take a clear stand: “For cohesion, for tolerance, for our democratic Germany.”
Scholz is referring to the meeting of right-wing radicals on November 25th in a Potsdam villa, which the media company Correctiv reported on. Several AfD politicians took part, as did individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” there. When right-wing extremists use this term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
“Devil’s plan”
The reporting led to a wave of demonstrations against right-wing extremism in Germany. Scholz himself took part in a demonstration in his hometown of Potsdam. He explicitly supported the demonstrations in his video. “What we are currently experiencing here in our country really concerns us all – each and every one of us,” emphasized Scholz. “I’ll say it very clearly and harshly: Right-wing extremists are attacking our democracy. They want to destroy our cohesion.”
The right-wing extremists discussed in Potsdam how they could drive millions of people out of Germany, said Scholz. “That thought sends shivers down your spine.” The Chancellor spoke of a “diabolical plan”. It is “terrible” that some migrants are now even wondering whether they still have a future in Germany. Scholz assured all people in Germany with a migrant background: “You belong to us! Our country needs you!” That is also the message of the new nationality law, which was passed in the Bundestag on Friday.
“I think this feeling of being German and Italian or German and Turkish – that corresponds to the reality of life for many citizens in our country. Recognizing that is a question of respect,” emphasized Scholz. “You helped build Germany’s prosperity. Our country owes you so much! That’s why we will also recognize your life’s achievements in the context of naturalization.” Scholz also emphasized that irregular immigration to Germany must be curbed at the same time. “We have to organize migration better than before – very pragmatically and, above all, without hatred and without prejudice.”