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AfD youth official posts map claiming German-speaking areas beyond Germany
Luca Maurice Strauf, an official in the youth organization of Germany’s far-right AfD party, posted a map on X on October 3.
The map showed a proposed “Greater Germany” that included German-speaking Switzerland, Austria, Alsace and Lorraine, Luxembourg, South Tyrol and areas in several other countries.
Strauf wrote that German unity meant bringing the entire German people together in one state, and described German reunification as a step toward that goal.
He later deleted the post.
Historian Olivier Meuwly says the idea draws on a 19th-century view of the nation as a shared cultural and language group.
That view differs from the idea that belonging should depend on support for democratic principles, and the map also echoes territorial ambitions associated with Nazi Germany.
The post was published on the anniversary of German reunification, but no further action is described.
An official of the AfD’s youth organisation posted a map claiming German-speaking regions outside Germany should belong to one German state.
The map included German-speaking Switzerland, Austria, Alsace and Lorraine, Luxembourg, South Tyrol and areas in Poland, Slovakia and Romania.
Luca Maurice Strauf posted the map on X on October 3, the anniversary of German reunification.
The post described reunification as a step towards uniting the entire German people in one state.
Historian Olivier Meuwly linked the post to 19th-century ideas of a German nation defined by culture and language.
Strauf later deleted the post.
- Who
- Luca Maurice Strauf, an official of the AfD youth organisation Generation Deutschland, posted the map.
- What
- He shared a map claiming German-speaking regions beyond Germany as part of a single German state.
- When
- October 3, the anniversary of German reunification in 1990.
- Where
- On X.
- Why
- The post said German unity meant uniting the entire German people in one state; a further motive is not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Deutsche Einheit bedeutet ein Deutschland, das das gesamte deutsche Volk in einem Staat vereint. Heute gedenken wir einem Etappen-Siegs auf dem Weg dorthin.
Die Aussage dieses AfD-Mitglieds knüpft an eine Vorstellung der deutschen Nation an, die im 19. Jahrhundert entstand.
Strauf posted the map and accompanying text on X, on the anniversary of German reunification.
The post had been deleted.
- Poster
- Luca Maurice Strauf
- Organisation
- Generation Deutschland, the AfD youth organisation
- Post date
- October 3
- Platform
- X
- Claimed regions
- German-speaking Switzerland, Austria, Alsace and Lorraine, Luxembourg, South Tyrol, and areas in Poland, Slovakia and Romania
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