Constanze Stelzenmüller

My name is Constanze Stelzenmüller, and I apologize. That's the name I was born with.

My name is Constanze Stelzenmüller, and I apologize. That's the name I was born with.

My name is Constanze Stelzenmüller, and I apologize. That's the name I was born with.

And I direct the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

And I direct the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

And I direct the Center on the U.S. and Europe at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

So, I mean, at the risk of stating the obvious, Germany has very special rules for for prohibiting parties, and for hate speech because of its history, because of national socialism that was in power in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and that led to the Holocaust and to World War II.

So, I mean, at the risk of stating the obvious, Germany has very special rules for for prohibiting parties, and for hate speech because of its history, because of national socialism that was in power in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and that led to the Holocaust and to World War II.

So, I mean, at the risk of stating the obvious, Germany has very special rules for for prohibiting parties, and for hate speech because of its history, because of national socialism that was in power in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and that led to the Holocaust and to World War II.

But to answer your question about why the AFD has even gotten into the crosshairs of these legal rules, it is that its members and its leadership over the past decade have repeatedly made overt or barely veiled references to Nazi slogans and Nazi ideas. They cooperate with extreme right and neo-Nazi movements.

But to answer your question about why the AFD has even gotten into the crosshairs of these legal rules, it is that its members and its leadership over the past decade have repeatedly made overt or barely veiled references to Nazi slogans and Nazi ideas. They cooperate with extreme right and neo-Nazi movements.

But to answer your question about why the AFD has even gotten into the crosshairs of these legal rules, it is that its members and its leadership over the past decade have repeatedly made overt or barely veiled references to Nazi slogans and Nazi ideas. They cooperate with extreme right and neo-Nazi movements.

They ally themselves with parties in the rest of Europe and also in the European Parliament that are overtly neo-Nazi. As for prosecuting hate speech, for the longest time after 1949, throughout the Cold War and much of the decades after reunification in 1990, There were always hard right movements. There were always neo-Nazi movements, but they were socially and politically fringe.

They ally themselves with parties in the rest of Europe and also in the European Parliament that are overtly neo-Nazi. As for prosecuting hate speech, for the longest time after 1949, throughout the Cold War and much of the decades after reunification in 1990, There were always hard right movements. There were always neo-Nazi movements, but they were socially and politically fringe.

They ally themselves with parties in the rest of Europe and also in the European Parliament that are overtly neo-Nazi. As for prosecuting hate speech, for the longest time after 1949, throughout the Cold War and much of the decades after reunification in 1990, There were always hard right movements. There were always neo-Nazi movements, but they were socially and politically fringe.

So it has only been the rise of the AfD in the past decade that has led to the broadening of the spectrum of what is sayable in Germany, what is socially and politically possible. And therefore, there has literally been more hate speech in the public domain that has received the attention of of not just other political competitors, but also the courts.

So it has only been the rise of the AfD in the past decade that has led to the broadening of the spectrum of what is sayable in Germany, what is socially and politically possible. And therefore, there has literally been more hate speech in the public domain that has received the attention of of not just other political competitors, but also the courts.

So it has only been the rise of the AfD in the past decade that has led to the broadening of the spectrum of what is sayable in Germany, what is socially and politically possible. And therefore, there has literally been more hate speech in the public domain that has received the attention of of not just other political competitors, but also the courts.

I will just say this, that the American constitutional order has always privileged freedom of speech in ways that the Germans after 1949 felt that they could not do because of the horrific experience that they had just gone through. You have never had a Holocaust. You have never started a world war. We did.

I will just say this, that the American constitutional order has always privileged freedom of speech in ways that the Germans after 1949 felt that they could not do because of the horrific experience that they had just gone through. You have never had a Holocaust. You have never started a world war. We did.