The AfD Youth Wing Was Shut Down for Extremism. Is The New One Any Different?
Last year, the far-right AfD dissolved its youth wing after Germany's intelligence agency classified it as extremist. Now comes Generation Deutschland. Has anything changed?
Early last year, the AfD was forced to dissolve its youth wing, the Junge Alternative, after Germany's domestic intelligence service classified it as a verified right-wing extremist organisation. Then last November, they launched a successor organisation, Generation Deutschland. Unlike the JA, this would be a legally dependent sub-organisation directly controlled by the party: the far-right party's youth group had, in short, become too much of a liability even for the AfD.
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