Helen Pidd

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3,798 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Helen Pidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 36 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 13.

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Today in Focus · Is Ulrich Siegmund the most dangerous man in Germany? · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

He he did once call Hitler's rule a low point in German history, but then when he was asked whether the Holocaust had shown the worst of mankind, he answered, I don't presume to judge that because I can't process the whole of mankind. voice-verified

And then there's the chance that his supporters shout at his rallies. voice-verified

It's this kind of call and response thing, isn't it, where people go, Sieg, and then other people go, Mond, Sieg. voice-verified

Mund. voice-verified

And you don't have to have great German to hear echoes in that of the Nazi slogan Siegheil. voice-verified

And it's something you've also seen with the AFD's leader, Alice Weidel, and her chant Alice für Deutschland, Alice, Alice, which sounds remarkably like Alice for Deutschland, a Nazi slogan. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And he's very relaxed, it seems, about the company he keeps. voice-verified

There are a couple of people in his very close circle who were literally in a neo Nazi youth groups, including voice-verified

Press spokesman Patrick Ha, he worked for the national leadership of the Heimatreuer Deutsche Jugend. voice-verified

This was an organization who, at the time, only twenty years ago, right, wanted their children to be national socialist freedom fighters. voice-verified

They painted their faces with swastikas. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Coming up, could the AFD ultimately win in the West and even in a general election? voice-verified

And you told us at the start of our conversation that the AFD will almost certainly be by far and away the largest party in Sunday's elections in Saxony Anhad, but it's not guaranteed that they will be able to form a government. voice-verified

Can you just explain to us why that is so? voice-verified

Okay, and but what if they don't quite get voice-verified

A majority. voice-verified

What happens then? voice-verified

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