THE GUARDIAN: Thousands of police deployed to Erfurt in central Germany as party holds conference on key Nazi date
Riot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from attending the party’s biennial national conference to elect its leadership.
Police reported 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in the eastern city, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are expected to be re-elected as the party’s co-leaders in the run-up to crucial regional elections in which AfD could win power at state-level for the first time.
The protesters, led by the “Resistance” alliance, staged sit-in blockades in the city centre in an attempt to prevent the AfD’s approximately 600 delegates from reaching the conference grounds, with some abseiling from a motorway bridge and others gluing themselves to tram tracks to cause disruption. » | Donna Ferguson | Saturday, July 4, 2026
Ironically, Hitler was not a German, but an Austrian. His soul, however, lives on particularly in Germany. In fact, it lives on and on and on! Will it ever die? Will Germany ever be able to shake off Hitler’s deplorable and disgusting legacy, once and for all? Will Germans ever be able to purify their image and souls of that despicable man’s ghost and cruel legacy? For truly it seems that Hitler’s ghost keeps coming back to haunt Germans, generation after generation. — © Mark Alexander
