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The secret meeting took place not far from another lakeside villa — the Wannsee Villa, where leading Nazi functionaries met in 1942 to plan the extermination of the Jews of Europe

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The week Germany woke up to the far-right AfD

A grey Saturday at the end of November 2024. Thin rain drops into Lehnitz lake. Limousines drive into the parking lot of the luxury Landhotel Adlon. Who is coming?

Two dozen German politicians, businesspeople and wealthy, middle-class, men. Some of them are from the extremist party Alternative for Germany (AfD), two are member of the centre-right CDU, two are known neo-Nazis. There is also a von Bismarck.

All of them want the encounter to be secret. Why? Because they meet to dis...

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

The secret meeting took place not far from another lakeside villa — the Wannsee Villa, where leading Nazi functionaries met in 1942 to plan the extermination of the Jews of Europe

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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