from
Iris Mayer, Leipzig
At the height of the hot autumn, Jürgen Elsässer stands on a stage in Leipzig and yells “Ami go home”. It’s a cold November Saturday, and for weeks the publicist of the right-wing extremist Compact-Magazin together with lateral thinkers, the splinter party “Freie Sachsen” and scene leaders drummed for the solidarity. 15,000 should come. But when Elsässer called into the dark in front of the Federal Administrative Court: “Patriots from all walks of life, patriots from left and right, upright right and reasonable left must come together against the occupying regime, which is represented by the old parties” – there is no front, anywhere. But just 1000 scattered. Alsatian slogan “The transverse front can win” is drowned out by the “Nazi go home” chorus of the counter-demonstrators.