Berlin: Nationwide Protests Against AfD Continue Following Revelation Of Meeting With Neo-Nazis

BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 21: People gather in front of the Reichstag to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on January 21, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Germany over the past week to protest against the AfD and to defend democracy following the recent revelation that high-ranking AfD members met with far-right extremists at a villa in Potsdam last November. According to the investigative media group Correctiv, whose members filmed and recorded portions of the gathering, politicians from the AfD, including AfD Bundestag parliamentarian Gerrit Huy as well as Roland Hartwig, a now former advisor to AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, and the German Christian Democrats (CDU)-linked Werteunion met with far-right extremists, including Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, and supporters of far-right causes, including Hans-Christian Limmer, founder of the Backwerk nationwide bakery chain. Participants at the meeting reportedly discussed how to possibly introduce legislative measures to enable the mass expulsion of immigrants from Germany, as well as German citizens with immigrant roots and German citizens who have helped refugees. (Photo by Maryam Majd/Getty Images)