Germany’s domestic intelligence agency formally classified the Alternative for Germany as a right-wing extremist movement, meaning authorities will have enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy.

The judgment by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution “is based on an extremely careful expert review spanning approximately three years” that examined remarks made by high-ranking AfD officials, according to a statement published Friday by Sinan Selen and Silke Willems, the office’s co-vice presidents.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Reich_Party

    The party claimed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was an American puppet and that Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was the last legitimate President of the German Reich, as he had been appointed by Adolf Hitler. It denied the existence of the Holocaust, claimed that the United States built the gas ovens of the Dachau concentration camp after the Second World War and that films of concentration camps were faked. […] It demanded the re-annexation of the former eastern territories of Germany and a “solution of the Jewish question”.

    TL;DR: If you’re openly a nazi party in 1952 you might get banned.

    EDIT: Also helps if you’re willing to ally with the soviets in 1952, it seems.

    said that he would “show the Russians the way to the Rhine”