 Adlon Mansion at Lake Lehnitz (2013) | |
| Date | 25 November 2023 |
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| Venue | Adlon Mansion |
| Location | Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°26′33″N 13°02′55″E / 52.4425°N 13.0485°E |
| Motive | Establish a plan on remigration of asylum seekers, foreigners, and foreign-born German citizens |
| Reporter | Correctiv |
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On 25 November 2023, a group of right-wing extremists met at the Adlon Mansion on Lake Lehnitz in Potsdam, Germany. At the event, Martin Sellner, an Austrian right-wing extremist presented a plan for the deportation (called "remigration" by Sellner) of certain parts of the German populace, namely asylum seekers, foreigners with a residence permit, and "non-assimilated" German citizens. The meeting was attended by members of the German right-wing populist party AfD, the mainstream centre-right party Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Werteunion (a German conservative political association), and the far-right Identitarian movement, among others. The meeting was exposed by the investigative journalism organization Correctiv, which published its findings on 10 January 2024.[1]
Both the revelations regarding the content of the meeting and the networking between the AfD and other right-wing extremists led to a broad wave of outrage and horror among numerous representatives from German politics, business, and culture; in many German cities, tens of thousands of people protested against the plans discussed at the meeting. What followed was a debate about a possible ban of the AfD and party expulsions of members of the CDU that attended the meeting.[2] Some participants of the Potsdam meeting mounted lawsuits against the report, with its main points however remaining unchallenged as of 1 March 2024[update].[3]
- ^ Bensmann, Marcus; von Daniels, Justus; Dowideit, Anette; Peters, Jean; Keller, Gabriela (10 January 2024). "Geheimplan gegen Deutschland". correctiv.org (in German). Archived from the original on 21 January 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "CDU will Teilnehmer an Extremisten-Treffen aus der Partei werfen" [CDU wants to oust participants of meeting of extremists from party]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 12 January 2024. Archived from the original on 14 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Sander, Lalon; Ansa, Sean-Elias (1 March 2024). "Tausendmal Tausende für Vielfalt" [Thousand times thousands for plurality]. taz (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2024.