Leading German Party’s Refugee Plans Remind Lawmaker of the “Warsaw Ghettos”

Germany’s far-right has made gains in recent years by stoking Islamophobic anti-refugee rhetoric, concerningly echoing antisemitic Nazi rhetoric from Germany’s past.

Rightwing extremist PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) supporters organizing over mass sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve under a banner reading “RAPEFUGEES NOT WELCOME” (Photo: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters) 09 January 2016.

by Deniz Yeter

Claudia Martin, a local state member of parliament in Baden-Württemberg,…