Jakob Springfeld "Der Westen hat keine Ahnung, was im Osten passiert"

In the organizer's words:

Why the rise of the right is a threat to us all.
Germany in the year 2024:
Attacks on refugees are on the rise again, the AfD is planning massive deportations of Germans with a migration background and right-wing extremists have arrived in the center of society. And the West is still only looking to the East. But the AfD is gaining ground nationwide. State authorities, the German armed forces and our justice system are also part of the problem. Structures that are supposed to strengthen our democratic coexistence are open to the right or simply look the other way. The author is afraid and is not alone in this. We must now position ourselves as a society and take a clear stance: We must fight for democracy and human rights!

Jakob Springfeld is a student and was born and raised in Zwickau in 2002. In Stuttgart, he received the Theodor Heuss Medal for special commitment to democracy and civil rights. ZEIT-Campus has named him one of the 100 most important East Germans. In his book, he describes why the soil in the East is particularly fertile for the instrumentalization of existential fears. But structural racism and right-wing extremism are problems that pose a threat to the whole of Germany, in Halle as in Hanau.