One thing that tells me that most people don’t understand history is people’s defense of Germany not being antisemitic anymore is that “they support Israel”.
Like, the state that planned to ship off all Jews to Madagascar as one of their “solutions” to the “Jewish Question” is in support of a state that says it is “the only safe place for Jews?”
It’s an entire country that learned literally all the wrong lessons from its history. The AFD and even “liberal” parties in Germany are using “defense of Jews” (when they really mean defense of Israel) as a reason to oppress and otherize immigrants within their country. Literally the same “they don’t belong here” shit the Nazis did.
They absolutely will turn around and start oppressing Jews as “nongerman” as soon as they are done. Do not be fooled by these fascists lies. They will have zero concern for Antisemitism as soon as they are done using it to opress anyone that is critical of Israel.
The AFD defends Israel just long enough until it becomes acceptable to ask “well, why can’t we have our own Ethnostate like Israel does?”. This is absolutely where this is going. These people believe in a German Ethnostate. They are taking the steps that can to get there. And that begins with using immigrants as their target first. But it won’t end there. It never does.
People are stupid. But when history is taught without a perspective of historical materialism they are so often unequipped (even if educated) to understand the incentives of these types of white supremacists (German supremacy).
Fascist can lie and hide behind liberal ideas. Fooling liberals unequipped to recognize them. So AFD can shout “Germany for Germans” and they still won’t realize what it means. They see themselves as “German”. But we all know that definition narrows more and more as fascist take power.