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The self-designated group '''Der Flügel''' ([[English]] ''the wing'') is [[Völkisch movement|völkisch]] and extrem nationalstic group within the [[Alternative for Germany]] (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD). Spokesman and main politican of Flügel is [[Björn Höcke]], spokesman of the Thuringia AfD Landesverband (English: Regional Association).<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50202916</ref>
The self-designated group '''Der Flügel''' ([[English]] ''the wing'') is [[Völkisch movement|völkisch]] and extrem nationalstic group within the [[Alternative for Germany]] (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD). Spokesman and main politican of Flügel is [[Björn Höcke]], spokesman of the Thuringia AfD Landesverband (English: Regional Association).<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50202916</ref>

==History==
Founding document of the "Flügel" is the "Erfurt Declaration" of 2015. The declaration explains the AfD as an "resistance movement against the further erosion of the identity of Germany". Since that the group is helding a s annual "Kyffhäusertreffen". Henry Bernhard of DLF sees a further radicalization of the movement at this meetings. "Racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, historical revisionism, the relativization of the crimes of National Socialism became increasingly accepted positions there.", he wrote in 2019.<ref>https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/afd-der-unterschied-zwischen-fluegel-und-restlicher-partei.1773.de.html?dram:article_id=462076</ref>


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The self-designated group Der Flügel (English the wing) is völkisch and extrem nationalstic group within the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD). Spokesman and main politican of Flügel is Björn Höcke, spokesman of the Thuringia AfD Landesverband (English: Regional Association).[1]

History

Founding document of the "Flügel" is the "Erfurt Declaration" of 2015. The declaration explains the AfD as an "resistance movement against the further erosion of the identity of Germany". Since that the group is helding a s annual "Kyffhäusertreffen". Henry Bernhard of DLF sees a further radicalization of the movement at this meetings. "Racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, historical revisionism, the relativization of the crimes of National Socialism became increasingly accepted positions there.", he wrote in 2019.[2]