Chapter 68: Purebred

269     “You continue to flood the country with illegal immigrants”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget of the 31st of January 2024, trans. Empire Caption Solutions.

269     “Anyone can come, no one has to go . . .” Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

269     “With this policy, you are driving . . . depriving Germans of their homeland”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

269     “More than 1,000 women are victims . . .”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

269     she claims  In 2023, scholars Rita Mughularia and Silke Uebelmesser found that when the share of immigrants in Germany increased “during and after the refugee crisis (2015–2019),” the “effect” on the total crime rate “was negative (or insignificant).” Rita Mughularia and Silke Uebelmesser, “Do Immigrants Affect crime? Evidence for Germany,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 211 (July 2023),www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268123001713. More recently, and in regards to sexual violence, in particular, researchers at the Ifo Institute showed, “Even for violent crimes such as homicide or sexual assault, the study shows no statistical correlation with an increasing share of foreigners or refugees.” “More Foreigners Do Not Increase Germany’s Crime Rate,” Ifo Institute, press release, February 18, 2025, www.ifo.de/en/press-release/2025-02-18/more-foreigners-do-not-increase-germanys-crime-rate. Researchers observe “no indication that changes in the number of asylum seekers and crime rate are related . . . no influence on serious crime such as murder and manslaughter or sexual offenses can be proven.” Joop Adema and Jean-Victor Alipour, “Does Migration Increase Crime? A Data-Based View,” ifo Schnelldienst digital, February 18, 2025, www.ifo.de/DocDL/sd-2025-digital-03-adema-alipour-migration-kriminalitaet.pdf,6, via Google Translate.

269     “But you remain silent . . .”  Alice Weidel on the General Debate on the 2024 Federal Budget.

269     referenced conspiracy theories circulated by QAnon  Tobias Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” manifesto, February 13, 2020, and Lori Hinnant and Frank Jordans, “Paranoia, Racism: German Killer Drew on Conspiracy Tropes,” Associated Press (AP) News, February 20, 2020, apnews.com/article/22f46b2de06ebe04c59e0e9bff87850e.

269–270 took credit for some . . . claimed he prophesized . . . to lead the United States  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 12, 22, 23; and Hinnant and Jordans, “Paranoia, Racism: German Killer Drew on Conspiracy Tropes,” apnews.com/article/22f46b2de06ebe04c59e0e9bff87850e.

269–270          demanded . . . be “completely destroyed” Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 6.

270     “Not everyone who has a German passport today . . .” Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 6.

270     considered non-White “races and cultures” . . . “destructive”  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 7.

270     inscribed . . . who do not fear immigrants of color  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 7.

270     lived with his mother  “When Far-Right Hatred Turns into Terrorism,” Spiegel International, February 21, 2020, www.spiegel.de/international/germany/when-far-right-hatred-turns-into-terrorism-a-e58ac378-bc7c-442e-a024-c801296d2b9c.

270     “Topic: Women”  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 13.

270     never had. . . with a woman  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 20.

270     “I had particularly high standards” . . . “wanted the best or nothing at all”  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 13.

270     worried about . . . being closely surveilled  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 20.

270     “secret service” of “invisible and unknown people”  Rathjen, “Script with Pictures,” 13.

270     selected hookah bars . . . large immigrant populations Nadine Schmidt et al., “Nine Killed at Two Shisha Bars in Germany in Suspected Far-Right Attack,” CNN, February 20, 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/europe/hanau-germany-shootings-intl/index.html.

270     opened fire at La Votre café and bar  Media reports published around the time of the shooting are conflicting, and the official government investigation has yet to be released. These details are drawn from Julia Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack: Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental Disorder and Extremist Beliefs,” Journal of Threat Assessment and Management 11, no. 3 (2024), psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150, which bases the timeline on available government documents.

270     killing an employee behind the counter Özlem Gezer and Timofey Neshitov, “Aftermath of a Deadly Racist Attack,” Spiegel International, February 18, 2021, www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-hanau-protocols-aftermath-of-a-deadly-racist-attack-a-5bfa4821-6682-4a8a-bada-7c6d9a884c30; and “9: Kaloyan Velkov” in “We Commemorate the Victims of Hanau,” Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD), March 4, 2020, domid.org/en/news/we-commemorate-the-victims-of-hanau/.

270     left . . . shot to death . . . on the sidewalk  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150; and “7: Fatih Saraçoğlu,” in “We Commemorate the Victims of Hanau,” domid.org/en/news/we-commemorate-the-victims-of-hanau/.

270     fired into . . . killing the owner  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150; and “2: Sedat Gürbüz,” in “We Commemorate the Victims of Hanau,” domid.org/en/news/we-commemorate-the-victims-of-hanau/.

270     ran off and shot at . . . a Roma man . . .  Kupper, et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150; and Zdeněk Ryšavý, “Another Victim of the German Terrorist Attack, a Young Man from Romania, Is Also from the Roma Minority,” Romea.cz, February 22, 2020, romea.cz/en/world/another-victim-of-the-german-terrorist-attack-a-young-man-from-romania-is-also-from-the-roma-minority.

270     fled . . . gave chase . . . tried to contact the police  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150; and “6: Vili-Viorel Păun,” in “We Commemorate the Victims of Hanau,” domid.org/en/news/we-commemorate-the-victims-of-hanau/.

270     parked his car . . . found . . . murdered him as he sat in his car  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150; and “6: Vili-Viorel Păun,” in “We Commemorate the Victims of Hanau,” domid.org/en/news/we-commemorate-the-victims-of-hanau/.

270     entered a nearby kiosk . . .shot three more people to death  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150.

270     entered a neighboring bar, killed two more people  Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150.

270     returned to his apartment . . . murdered his . . .mother . . . on himself  Philip Oltermann, “Hanau Attack Gunman Railed Against Ethnic Minorities Online,” The Guardian, February 20, 2020, www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/20/hanau-gunman-tobias-rathjen-railed-against-ethnic-minorities-online.

270     murdered nine people and wounded six more Kupper et al., “The Hanau Terror Attack,” psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-66538-001, 150.

270–271           Four . . . German citizens, two of Kurdish ancestry . . . Alina Leimbach, “Nine Young People from Hanau, Torn from Their Lives,” Hessenschau, February 22, 2020, accessed via Wayback Machine, February 22, 2020 capture, web.archive.org/web/20200222205315/https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/opfer-des-anschlags-neun-junge-hanauer-mitten-aus-dem-leben-gerissen%2Copfer-hanau-anschlag-100.html, via Google Translate.

271      two Turkish immigrants, a Bosnian immigrant . . . Leimbach, “Nine Young People from Hanau, Torn from Their Lives,” web.archive.org/web/20200222205315/https://www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/opfer-des-anschlags-neun-junge-hanauer-mitten-aus-dem-leben-gerissen%2Copfer-hanau-anschlag-100.html.

271      between twenty-one and thirty-seven years old  Wesley Rahn, “Hanau Shootings: What We Know About the Victims,” Deutsche Welle (DW), February 21, 2020, www.dw.com/en/hanau-shootings-what-we-know-about-the-victims/a-52460950.

271      shot dead . . . Walter Lübcke  Euronews and Agence France-Presse (AFP), “Walter Lübcke: Right-Wing Extremist Stephan Ernst Handed Life Sentence for Murder of Pro-Migrant MP,” Euronews, January 28, 2021, www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/01/28/verdict-expected-in-trial-of-neo-nazi-accused-of-murdering-german-politician.

271      seethed when . . . defended . . . to Syrian refugees in 2015  Ben Knight, “Neo-Nazi Found Guilty in Murder of German Politician,” DW, January 28, 2021, www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-convicted-of-german-politicians-murder/a-56366905.

271      livestreamed a failed attempt . . .  in Halle  “German Halle Gunman Admits Far-Right Synagogue Attack,” BBC News, October 11, 2019, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50011898.

271      fifty-one Jewish Germans “German Halle Gunman Admits Far-Right Synagogue Attack,” www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50011898.

271      killing a White non-Jewish woman  . . . where he fatally shot a man Christopher F. Schuetze and Melissa Eddy, “Only a Locked Door Stopped a Massacre at a German Synagogue,” New York Times, October 10, 2019, last updated October 21, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/world/europe/germany-synagogue-attack.html.

271      wounded two more people before police arrested him  “German Gunman Admits Far-Right Synagogue Attack,” www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50011898.

271      apologized . . . “didn’t want to kill whites” Stephan Balliet quoted in “Halle Synagogue Attack: Germany Far-Right Gunman Jailed for Life,” BBC News, December 21, 2020, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55395682.   

271      “kill as many anti-Whites as possible, Jews preferred” Stephan Balliet, manifesto, October 1, 2019, quoted in “Deadly Attack Exposes Lapses in German Security Apparatus,” Spiegel International, October 11, 2019, www.spiegel.de/international/germany/far-right-terrorism-in-germany-shooting-exposes-lapses-in-security-apparatus-a-1291075.html.

271      inspired by Brenton Tarrant  “Synagogue Attack: Germany Far-Right Gunman Jailed for Life,” www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55395682.   

271      “thoughts are with the victims and their families”  Alice Weidel, Twitter, October 9, 2019, 8:20 a.m., x.com/Alice_Weidel/status/1181907377819439104, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/FhZx6.

271      "a lone perpetrator who used . . .”  “Weidel: Seehofer’s Resentment Against the Gaming Scene in Germany Is Completely Out of Place,” AfD, press release, October 14, 2019, afdbundestag.de/weidel-seehofers-ressentiments-gegen-die-spielerszene-in-deutschland-voellig-fehl-am-platz/, via Google Translate.

271      60 percent . . . “the AfD is partly responsible” . . .  “Only 26% of the survey’s respondents did not think that the far-right party . . . is partly responsible for such acts of violence. Another 14% were undecided. Forty-nine percent also believed that right-wing extremism is the greatest terrorist threat in Germany. Only 27% considered Muslim fundamentalists to be the greatest threat, while 6% said left-wing terror was the greatest threat. In addition, 46% of respondents thought that German security authorities don’t pay enough attention to the dangers posed by right-wing extremism.” “Support for Far-Right AfD Falls After Hanau Attack,” DW, February 23, 2020, www.dw.com/en/support-for-far-right-afd-falls-after-hanau-attack-in-germany/a-52485645.

271      “excessive campaign [that] has been running . . .”  Alice Weidel, Twitter, February 21, 2020, 8:22 a.m., x.com/Alice_Weidel/status/1230845307128287233, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/KviBz.

272      “the same voices that are otherwise always ready . . ."  Alice Weidel, “Let’s Pause,” Junge Freiheit, February 21, 2020, jungefreiheit.de/debatte/kommentar/2020/halten-wir-inne/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp, via Google Translate.