Chapter 66: Düsseldorf Forum

263      “The federal president calls AfD voters rats and . . .” Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget of the 31st of January 2024, trans. Empire Caption Solutions.

263      “You should be ashamed of yourself! . . .” Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

263      “With your unspeakable tax-financed defamation and . . .”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

263      “You talk about saving, but you burden . . .”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

263      having spoken in the Bundestag two days earlier Phoenix, “Alice Weidel at the General Debate on the Federal Budget 2023 on 23.11.22,” YouTube, November 23, 2022, youtu.be/WFbWe0tjpMs?si=K0cneNyWd-1P1vAA.

263      a member of the district executive committee  “Potsdam CDU Starts Party Expulsion Proceedings Against Filla Owners,” Der Spiegel, February 6, 2024, www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wilhelm-wilderink-potsdamer-cdu-startet-parteiausschlussverfahren-gegen-villeninhaber-a-ec9ffe66-c0a0-4e7f-b6c8-8e937b1b2b85, via Google Translate.

264     who attended the remigration meeting Marcus Bensmann et al., “Secret Plan Against Germany,” Correctiv, January 15, 2024, correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.

264     “then-Chancellor Angela Merkel . . . by allowing over a million people . . .” “Germany: Right-Wing Group to Form a New Conservative Party,” Deutsch Welle (DW), January 20, 2024, www.dw.com/en/germany-right-wing-group-to-form-a-new-conservative-party/a-68043732.

264                reportedly has a record . . . “Augusta Presteid” Ulrich Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” ZDFhuete, February 5, 2024, www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html, via Google Translate.

264     credentials like . . . of U.S. or UK universities  Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html. Huss had previously been affiliated with University of Cambridge’s psychology department. See “Talks and Engagement,” Centre for Neurscience in Education, University of Cambridge, accessed Janaury 29, 2026, www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/talks-and-engagement.

264     wrote about the racial heritability of intelligence  Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html.

264     “Men are more strongly represented . . . than women”  “Augusta Presteid” (reportedly Mathilda Martina Huss), Indubio podcast, January 2022, quoted in Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html.

264     “Migration is changing our gene pool” Anonymous biologist (reportedly Huss), “Der Schattenmacher” YouTube channel, November 2021, quoted in Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html.

264     “The very term racial ideology is foreign to me” Huss quoted in Stoll, “Crude Racial Madness of the Castle Mistress?” www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/afd-geheimtreffen-schlossherrin-adlon-100.html,

264     the son of Gisela and Ludwig Limmer “Borna Has Fallen: The Nazi ‘Memorial Site’ Is Becoming a Retirement Home,” hiergeblieben.de, accessed February 27, 2025, www.hiergeblieben.de/pages/textanzeige.php?id=28465, via Google Translate.

264     believed immigrants threatened . . .  Andra Röpke, “Straw Man of the Auschwitz Deniers,” Endstation Rechts, December 21, 2005, www.endstation-rechts.de/news/strohmann-der-auschwitz-leugner, via Google Translate; Janet Biehl, “‘Ecology’ and the Modernization of Fascism in the German Ultra-Right,” in Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German Experience (Porsgrunn, Norway: New Compass Press, 2011), ia803104.us.archive.org/33/items/EcofascismRevisitedLessonsFromTheGermanExperience/Ecofascism%20Revisited%20-%20Lessons%20from%20the%20German%20Experience.pdf, PDF pp. 48–50; and “Former Left-Wing, Germany Extremist Horst Mahler Switches to Neo-Nazi National Democratic Party,” Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), August 29, 2001, www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/former-left-wing-german-extremist-horst-mahler-switches-neo-nazi-national-democratic-party/.

264     purchased a 110,000 square-foot property . . . in 2005  Röpke, “Straw Man of the Auschwitz Deniers,” www.endstation-rechts.de/news/strohmann-der-auschwitz-leugner.

264     reported . . . raised €250,000 . . . “a place of remembrance”  Ludwig Limmer, October 2005, quoted in Röpke, “Straw Man of the Auschwitz Deniers,” www.endstation-rechts.de/news/strohmann-der-auschwitz-leugner.

264     planned to build a giant iron cross  Röpke, “Straw Man of the Auschwitz Deniers,” www.endstation-rechts.de/news/strohmann-der-auschwitz-leugner.

264     Nazi memorial never came to pass  “Borna Has Fallen: The Nazi ‘Memorial Site’ Is Becoming a Retirement Home,” www.hiergeblieben.de/pages/textanzeige.php?id=28465.

264     other organizer . . . dentist in Dusseldorf Bensmann et al., “Secret Plan Against Germany,” correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.

264     led . . . that promoted Nazi “blood-and-soil” ideas  Bensmann et al., “Secret Plan Against Germany,” correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.

264     determined the invite list and set the meeting’s agenda  Bensmann et al., “Plan Against Germany,” correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.

264     part of his “Düsseldorf Forum”  Bensmann et al., “Secret Plan Against Germany,” correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/.