Photo: DPAA leaked WhatsApp chat in which the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) state leader in Saxony-Anhalt used a neo-Nazi slogan has forced the party to defend itself against renewed accusations of extremism. Speaking to The Local in May, AfD leader Alice Weidel said that "there are no racists in the AfD." In a leaked WhatsApp chat between party members, Saxony-Anhalt party leader André Poggenburg used the term Deutschland den Deutschen (Germany belongs to Germans), a parole often heard at marches organized by the neo-Nazi NPD party. Another member of the WhatsApp chat called for “all journalists to be checked over and filtered after we take over power.”No other member of the group criticized the assertion. The comments were described as "anti-Semitic and extremely inhumane” by the head of the Central Council of Jews.

Source: The Local June 22, 2017 14:15 UTC