What are the alternatives for Germany – and Europe?
Recent unprecedented election gains in regional elections in eastern Germany for the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland party have shocked Germany’s political establishment and observers around Europe.
But should they really be a surprise asks East German-born historian and author Katja Hoyer?
And how will radical parties of both the right and the left change the post-Second World War political consensus and the policies of established parties?
On October 15 Hoyer briefed the AEJ UK on how these radical parties are winning mass support with harsh anti-immigrant policies and the historical context within which this has happened.
Hoyer is a visiting research fellow at King’s College London, a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung, and writer for other European and U.S. media.
She is the author of Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 and Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871-1918.
Katja Hoyer at the AEJ UK on 15 October 2024
