Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock defends herself against the allegations of a media scientist.
He claims that there is plagiarism in her book.
Berlin - In the debate about her book, Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock rejected criticism.
“A lot of ideas from others have been incorporated,” said Baerbock in a conversation with journalists from the “Brigitte” magazine in Berlin.
"But I haven't written a non-fiction book or anything, but what I want to do with this country - and on the other hand I have described the world as it is based on facts and realities."
On Tuesday, the Austrian media scientist Stefan Weber first spoke about several places in Baerbock's book “Jetzt. How We Renew our Land ”, which have striking similarities to other publications. The Greens reject the allegation of alleged copyright infringement and argue, like the publisher, that the reproduction of well-known facts is unproblematic.
After her nomination as candidate for chancellor, which took place in April, she experienced that false claims were deliberately made about her, said Baerbock. For example, it is repeatedly doubted that she graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). In the USA it has been shown what happens to a society when truth and falsehood are mixed up. Your party made it clear that there was no copyright infringement in the book. You wrote this book to explain “who I am and what drives me,” said Baerbock. dpa