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She developed this idea in a radio lecture broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on July 11 , 1963

What did Hannah Arendt say about people and state? "The European nation-state, which inherited absolutism, is based on the trinity of people, teritory and state"

The cigarette smoke that envelops her in photos has a similar symbolic function to the tangled hair in the popular image of Albert Einstein decades earlier: ciphers of an outsider status proven productive by global scientific fame.

By identifying himself as an [Hannah] Arendt reader, Wundrak claimed a place for the AfD within the broad spectrum of the Federal republic mentality.

Like Bismarck’s empire, Kohl’s republic was described as saturated.

What exactly do you mean by that? [anti-German politics]

[General Joachim] Wundrak meant a policy against the German people- in the categorical sense: a policy directed not just against individual interests of this people, but against its continued existence”

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is monitoring the activities of the AfD on the suspicion that the party’s efforts are directed against the existence of the conditions desired by the Basic Law.

"He who coins the terms, shapes the language. Whoever shapes language shapes thinking. He who shapes thought, he shapes the political discourse and he who shapes the political discourse dominates politics, regardless of whether he is in the opposition or in the government." (Höcke 2018)

“Do we want to ban the German language because the Nazis spoke German?” he asked the judges. “How far should this go?”

IN: The Man Softening the Ground for an Extremist Germany
NYTimes, June 23, 2024.

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This is shown by the campaigns against gender language, which continue chauvinistic efforts to keep the German language pure ...