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Following the elections in Brandenburg, young AfD supporters started singing a song by the Atzen. An expert warned that “all inhibitions could fall”.
“Hey, now it’s happening, we’re deporting them all, all of them,” yelled young AfD supporters at an AfD election party in the Potsdam district of Marquardt. In the Brandenburg election, the party came in just behind the SPD (30.9 percent) with 29.2 percent. At the election party in an inn, leading candidate Hans-Christoph Berndt was joined by federal chairmen Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, as well as the Thuringian AfD chairman Björn Höcke.
“Just embarrassing,” one person on TikTok commented on a video of the election party. “I’m shocked, although it doesn’t even surprise me anymore,” wrote another. The melody belongs to the song “Das geht ab. Wir Feiern die ganze Nacht” by the band “Die Atzen”. In one video, it sounds as if the Atzen song had been rewritten into a right-wing AfD song with the help of AI, as is currently happening a lot on TikTok.
AfD election party in Brandenburg: “Racist deportation policy as a party banger”
Already during the election campaign in Brandenburg, the “deportation song became the unofficial election campaign hit of the AfD Brandenburg” and spread on TikTok, says right-wing extremism expert Lorenz Blumenthaler of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
“It is simply disgusting how the official party leadership blatantly revels in its own misanthropy,” he says BuzzFeed News Deutschland von IPPEN.MEDIA. “Racist deportation policy as a party banger, you have to feel that safe at first.”
A video of the AfD’s election party in Brandenburg is spreading on social media. “Deport millions of them,” young AfD supporters demand, shouting “We’ll deport them all.” © TikTok Screenshot
Song at AfD election party in Brandenburg “consistent continuation of a right-wing extremist meme”
Even after the election in Thuringia, “shameful” videos appeared at an AfD election party. Those present chanted the song “L’amour toujours” – without the lyrics “Foreigners out!”, which turned the song into a racist meme on Sylt.
Blumenthaler says of the deportation song at the election party in Brandenburg: “Unlike L’amour toujours, it is not a meme or trend that is supplemented or rewritten depending on the situation. Rather, it is a song written and recorded specifically for the song, to the widely used and once again very catchy Atzen melody.” The song is the “logical continuation of the right-wing extremist L’amour toujours meme.”
AfD chairman from Brandenburg finds deportation song “completely justifiable”
“With every election victory, racism becomes more open. With every vote, people become more confident about their cause. All inhibitions fall away,” says Blumenthaler BuzzFeed News DeutschlandVideos like the one from the AfD election party portray deportation policies, which for those affected primarily mean violence, as “something funny and lapidary.”
The incident on Monday in German Radio When asked about this, René Springer, chairman of the AfD-Brandenburg, said he found it “completely justifiable” to put the topic of deportations into a funny song. “The violent core and the consequences of this policy are trivialized. Yelling until deportation. This naturally lowers the inhibition threshold, because as with L’amour toujours, everything is presented as fun and funny. For young people in particular, the ideology of right-wing extremists is becoming more and more tangible and ultimately part of their world, not just digital,” warns Blumenthaler.
