Bettina Goering, great-granddaughter of Hermann, Adolf Hitler's main lieutenant, issued a warning against the AfD, saying she saw parallels with the Weimar Republic, the one that preceded the advent of Nazism in 1933. This was reported by the website of the newspaper Die Welt pointed out that Goering's descendant said: "I see the same playbook," the same sequence of plans as the party harks back to the National Socialists' strategies for the mass expulsion of minorities.
"At the moment they want to expel the Africans. Then the Muslims. The Jews will certainly follow. Or perhaps the gays and lesbians", argued Goering in a podcast relaunched by two media outlets.
The woman on the other hand hoped for more tact in dealing with AfD sympathizers.
"If you say 'you're the Nazis, you're the devils,' you're not going anywhere," she explained.
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