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	After [[AfD]] MP [[Hans-Thomas Tillschneider]] spoke at a [[PEGIDA]] rally in May 2016, [[Lutz Bachmann]] invited the co-leader [[Frauke Petry]] to do the same, adding 'these are your voters, Frauke, and you have to be here'. <ref> Chris Tomlinson, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/16/pegidas-bachmann-salutes-america-invites-afd-leader-petry-speak/ PEGIDA’s Bachmann Salutes America, Invites AfD Leader Petry To Speak], ''Breitbart'', 16 November 2016. accessed November 28 2016. </ref>		After [[AfD]] MP [[Hans-Thomas Tillschneider]] spoke at a [[PEGIDA]] rally in May 2016, [[Lutz Bachmann]] invited the co-leader [[Frauke Petry]] to do the same, adding 'these are your voters, Frauke, and you have to be here'. <ref> Chris Tomlinson, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/16/pegidas-bachmann-salutes-america-invites-afd-leader-petry-speak/ PEGIDA’s Bachmann Salutes America, Invites AfD Leader Petry To Speak], ''Breitbart'', 16 November 2016. accessed November 28 2016. </ref>
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		+	In mid-December 2016, AfD MP [[Andreas Wild]] attended a [[PEGIDA]] rally in Dresden and praised the 'patriotic' anti-Islamic movement. He said: 'I think Pegida is a bold movement of patriotic Germans who show the world that Germans want to have their own state. [..] Germans want to have their habits and the Germans want Germany as their home country and not an Islamic state, which some people are planning to build in Germany.[..] [O]n the streets we need you, and we need AfD in the parliament.' <ref> AJAY NAIR, [http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/745346/andreas-wild-afd-pegida-dresden-immigration-protest-islam 'Germany NOT an Islamic state' Anti-immigration rally takes place day before Berlin attack], ''Express'', December 20 2016. Accessed December 20 2016. </ref>

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	It has become common to see AfD placards calling for government figures to be lynched as punishment, just as during [[Pegida]] rallies. In January 2016, an AfD functionary called for the death penalty to be introduced so that the government could be 'placed against a wall' and shot. <ref> Kate Connolly, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/frauke-petry-smiling-face-resurgent-right 'Frauke Petry: smiling face of Germany’s resurgent right'], ''The Guardian'', 07 February 2016. Accessed September 15 2015. </ref>		It has become common to see AfD placards calling for government figures to be lynched as punishment, just as during [[Pegida]] rallies. In January 2016, an AfD functionary called for the death penalty to be introduced so that the government could be 'placed against a wall' and shot. <ref> Kate Connolly, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/frauke-petry-smiling-face-resurgent-right 'Frauke Petry: smiling face of Germany’s resurgent right'], ''The Guardian'', 07 February 2016. Accessed September 15 2015. </ref>
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		+	After [[AfD]] MP [[Hans-Thomas Tillschneider]] spoke at a [[PEGIDA]] rally in May 2016, [[Lutz Bachmann]] invited the co-leader [[Frauke Petry]] to do the same, adding 'these are your voters, Frauke, and you have to be here'. <ref> Chris Tomlinson, [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/16/pegidas-bachmann-salutes-america-invites-afd-leader-petry-speak/ PEGIDA’s Bachmann Salutes America, Invites AfD Leader Petry To Speak], ''Breitbart'', 16 November 2016. accessed November 28 2016. </ref>

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 Since then however, the party has increasing shifted towards the right and a hardline anti-refugee stance under the leadership of a 40-year-old Christian chemist and mother-of-four [[Frauke Petry]]. She took over in July 2015, prompting co-founders [[Bernd Lucke]] and [[Konrad Adam]] to quit the party because of the increasing polarisation between factions over direction away from Lucke's original economic focus. Moreover, the dramatically lower influx of refugees due to the closure of borders around Europe has prompted the AfD to shift its campaign agenda to one of stopping the 'Islamification' of Germany.
 In its March 2016 manifesto, the party called for a ban on minarets, Muslim calls to prayer, burqas and halal slaughter. <ref> Kate Connolly [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/19/frauke-petry-acceptable-face-of-germany-new-right-interview 'Frauke Petry: the acceptable face of Germany’s new right?'] - ''The Guardian'', 19 June 2016. Accessed 14 September 2016. </ref> <ref> Elisabeth Schumacher, [http://www.dw.com/en/german-populists-afd-adopt-anti-islam-manifesto/a-19228284 'German populists AfD adopt anti-Islam manifesto'] ''Die Welt'', 1 May 2016. Accessed 14 September 2016. </ref>It also contained policies that, to some, are reminiscent of the Nazi regime, including incentivising German women to have three or more children, imprisoning drug addicts and people with mental health issues who did not respond to therapy. <ref> Brenna Daldorph, [http://www.france24.com/en/20160905-germany-afd-frauke-petry-right-immigrant-election-merkel 'Frauke 'Adolfina' Petry: the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam threat to Merkel'], ''France 24'', 05 September 2016. Accessed 15 September 2016. </ref>
-Its anti-euro policy echoes the Euroscepticism of other right-wing parties in Europe, especially the French [[National Front]] ([[FN]]), the [[UK Independence Party]] ([[UKIP]]) and Austria's [[Freedom Party]] ([[FPÖ]]). The AfD argues that more powers must be returned to nation states, opposing all 'centralising' moves in the EU, and anything that approaches 'Euro-federalism'. If the EU fails to reform and continues centralising, AfD claims it will seek to pull Germany out of the EU. In another echo of anti-EU parties, the AfD argues that elite, establishment politicians are too remote from ordinary voters, and that more policies should be decided by Swiss-style referendums. <ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37274201 'What does Alternative for Germany (AfD) want?'], ''BBC News'', 05 September 2016. Accessed 15 September 2016. </ref>
+In November 2016 the party released a new policy pledging to cut all financial aid for refugees and to change the law to stop family members from joining them. It recommended holding people of 'uncertain identity' in offshore camps away from Europe until their rights of passage are sorted. The camps would be in north Africa, Turkey, western Syria and Libya and overseen by the EU. The policy prompted accusations of closeness to Nazi discourse. <ref>Alan Hall, [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/german-far-right-party-outlines-plan-to-solve-migrant-crisis-3pv232j9m German far-right party outlines plan to solve migrant crisis], ''The Times'', 03 November 2016. Accessed 03 November 2016. </ref>
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 *[[PEGIDA]]
-*In September 2016, AfD Chair [[Georg Pazderski]] admited that [[Kay Nerstheimer]], newly-elected AfD parliamentarian for Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district, was a member of the extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group [[German Defence League]]. Nerstheimer allegedly ended his activities with the group after it came under surveillance in 2013 by Germany’s domestic security agency. The newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (SZ) reported that Nerstheimer’s extremist views did not start nor end with the [[German Defence League]], as he has repeatedly posted Facebook messages glorifying the Nazi time, trivializing the acts of Nazi war criminals, and using certain phrases often espoused by the Third Reich in recent years.
+*[[German Defence League]]: In September 2016, AfD Chair [[Georg Pazderski]] admited that [[Kay Nerstheimer]], newly-elected AfD parliamentarian for Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district, was a member of the extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group [[German Defence League]]. Nerstheimer allegedly ended his activities with the group after it came under surveillance in 2013 by Germany’s domestic security agency. The newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (SZ) reported that Nerstheimer’s extremist views did not start nor end with the [[German Defence League]], as he has repeatedly posted Facebook messages glorifying the Nazi time, trivializing the acts of Nazi war criminals, and using certain phrases often espoused by the Third Reich in recent years.
 In a post dating January 2016, [[Kay Nerstheimer]] had called the asylum seekers coming to Germany an 'illegal invasion' and referred to refugees as 'the parasites that feed on the juices of the German people'. The Chair said that the AfD would look into his past and 'find a solution', leader [[Frauke Petry]] would not say whether they would consider dismissing him from the party. <ref> [https://www.thelocal.de/20160921/presenting-berlins-new-afd-senator-ex-member-extremist-defence-league New AfD Berlin senator: Nazi civilian killings were 'legal'], ''The Local'', 21 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>

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-*In September 2016, AfD Chair [[Georg Pazderski]] admits that [[Kay Nerstheimer]], newly-elected AfD parliamentarian for Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district, was a member of the extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group [[German Defence League]]. Nerstheimer allegedly ended his activities with the group after it came under surveillance in 2013 by Germany’s domestic security agency. The newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (SZ) reported that Nerstheimer’s extremist views did not start nor end with the [[German Defence League]], as he has repeatedly posted Facebook messages glorifying the Nazi time, trivializing the acts of Nazi war criminals, and using certain phrases often espoused by the Third Reich in recent years.
+*In September 2016, AfD Chair [[Georg Pazderski]] admited that [[Kay Nerstheimer]], newly-elected AfD parliamentarian for Berlin’s eastern Lichtenberg district, was a member of the extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group [[German Defence League]]. Nerstheimer allegedly ended his activities with the group after it came under surveillance in 2013 by Germany’s domestic security agency. The newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (SZ) reported that Nerstheimer’s extremist views did not start nor end with the [[German Defence League]], as he has repeatedly posted Facebook messages glorifying the Nazi time, trivializing the acts of Nazi war criminals, and using certain phrases often espoused by the Third Reich in recent years.
 In a post dating January 2016, [[Kay Nerstheimer]] had called the asylum seekers coming to Germany an 'illegal invasion' and referred to refugees as 'the parasites that feed on the juices of the German people'. The Chair said that the AfD would look into his past and 'find a solution', leader [[Frauke Petry]] would not say whether they would consider dismissing him from the party. <ref> [https://www.thelocal.de/20160921/presenting-berlins-new-afd-senator-ex-member-extremist-defence-league New AfD Berlin senator: Nazi civilian killings were 'legal'], ''The Local'', 21 September 2016. Accessed 07 October 2016. </ref>

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 According to the ''Wall Street Journal'' in January 2015, AfD 'managed to avoid the Nazi label stuck to other right-wing German parties thanks in part to its image as a group founded by sober professors opposed to eurozone bailouts rather than by nationalist rabble-rousers'.<ref name="WSJ">Anton Troianovski, [http://www.wsj.com/articles/upstart-german-party-considers-anti-islam-stance-1422482362 Upstart German Party Considers Anti-Islam Stance]], Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2015</ref>
-[[Image:Petry3.jpg||300px|thumb|right|Frauke Petry on 30 January 2015. Credit:''Metropolico'' ]
+[[Image:Petry3.jpg||300px|thumb|right|Frauke Petry on 30 January 2015. Credit:''Metropolico'']]
 Since then however, the party has increasing shifted towards the right and a hardline anti-refugee stance under the leadership of a 40-year-old Christian chemist and mother-of-four [[Frauke Petry]]. She took over in July 2015, prompting co-founders [[Bernd Lucke]] and [[Konrad Adam]] to quit the party because of the increasing polarisation between factions over direction away from Lucke's original economic focus. Moreover, the dramatically lower influx of refugees due to the closure of borders around Europe has prompted the AfD to shift its campaign agenda to one of stopping the 'Islamification' of Germany.

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	According to the ''Wall Street Journal'' in January 2015, AfD 'managed to avoid the Nazi label stuck to other right-wing German parties thanks in part to its image as a group founded by sober professors opposed to eurozone bailouts rather than by nationalist rabble-rousers'.<ref name="WSJ">Anton Troianovski, [http://www.wsj.com/articles/upstart-german-party-considers-anti-islam-stance-1422482362 Upstart German Party Considers Anti-Islam Stance]], Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2015</ref>		According to the ''Wall Street Journal'' in January 2015, AfD 'managed to avoid the Nazi label stuck to other right-wing German parties thanks in part to its image as a group founded by sober professors opposed to eurozone bailouts rather than by nationalist rabble-rousers'.<ref name="WSJ">Anton Troianovski, [http://www.wsj.com/articles/upstart-german-party-considers-anti-islam-stance-1422482362 Upstart German Party Considers Anti-Islam Stance]], Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2015</ref>
		+	[[Image:Petry3.jpg\|\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Frauke Petry on 30 January 2015. Credit:''Metropolico'' ]

	Since then however, the party has increasing shifted towards the right and a hardline anti-refugee stance under the leadership of a 40-year-old Christian chemist and mother-of-four [[Frauke Petry]]. She took over in July 2015, prompting co-founders [[Bernd Lucke]] and [[Konrad Adam]] to quit the party because of the increasing polarisation between factions over direction away from Lucke's original economic focus. Moreover, the dramatically lower influx of refugees due to the closure of borders around Europe has prompted the AfD to shift its campaign agenda to one of stopping the 'Islamification' of Germany.		Since then however, the party has increasing shifted towards the right and a hardline anti-refugee stance under the leadership of a 40-year-old Christian chemist and mother-of-four [[Frauke Petry]]. She took over in July 2015, prompting co-founders [[Bernd Lucke]] and [[Konrad Adam]] to quit the party because of the increasing polarisation between factions over direction away from Lucke's original economic focus. Moreover, the dramatically lower influx of refugees due to the closure of borders around Europe has prompted the AfD to shift its campaign agenda to one of stopping the 'Islamification' of Germany.

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-*Philipp Wittrock, [http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/alternative-for-germany-party-to-challenge-european-common-currency-a-894081.html The Know-It-All Party: Anti-Euro 'Alternative for Germany' Launches], Spiegel Online International, 12 April 2013,
+*Philipp Wittrock, [http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/alternative-for-germany-party-to-challenge-european-common-currency-a-894081.html The Know-It-All Party: Anti-Euro 'Alternative for Germany' Launches], ''Spiegel Online International'', 12 April 2013,
-*Harriet Alexander, and Jeevan Vasagar, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk//news/worldnews/europe/germany/9975766/Bernd-Lucke-interview-Why-Germany-has-had-enough-of-the-euro.html Bernd Lucke interview: 'Why Germany has had enough of the euro'], The Telegraph, 7 April 2013
+*Harriet Alexander, and Jeevan Vasagar, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk//news/worldnews/europe/germany/9975766/Bernd-Lucke-interview-Why-Germany-has-had-enough-of-the-euro.html Bernd Lucke interview: 'Why Germany has had enough of the euro'], ''The Telegraph'', 7 April 2013
 *Nicholas Kulish and Melissa Eddy, [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/world/europe/elites-flock-to-anti-euro-party-alternative-for-germany.html?_r=0 German Elites Drawn to Anti-Euro Party, Spelling Trouble for Merkel], ''New York Times'', 14 April 2013.

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 In Germany, electoral rules state that the federal government must match, up to a value of €5 million, any funds raised privately by a political party. In a bid to get the full allocation of state funding, AfD went through a loophole by selling gold bullion online since November 2014. In the two weeks after the scheme was announced they sold gold coins and bars worth 1.6 million euros. <ref> Mark O'Byrne, [http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/germanys-third-largest-political-party-sells-e1-6-million-of-gold-in-two-weeks/ 'Germany's Third Largest Political Party Sells €1.6 Million of Gold In Two Weeks'], ''Goldcore'', 04 November 2014. Accessed 13 September 2016. </ref> By boosting its income via its gold trade, the AfD ensured that it was entitled to extra subsidies even though the profit was marginal.
-In December 2015, the new party funding law was passed, altering the regulation so that only profit, rather than turnover, was eligible for the state subsidy, drastically slashing the AfD's income. The party's deputy leader [[Beatrix von Storch]] claimed that the alteration meant the AfD would lose two million euros that same year, and immediately issued an emergency call for a 100-euro donation from each of its 20,000 members. <ref> Ben Knight, [http://www.dw.com/en/after-the-gold-rush-afd-loses-state-subsidies/a-18928520 'After the gold rush: AfD loses state subsidies'], ''DW'', 18 December 2015. Accessed 13 September 2016. </ref>
+In December 2015, the new party funding law was passed, altering the regulation so that only profit, rather than turnover, was eligible for the state subsidy, drastically slashing the AfD's income. The party's deputy leader [[Beatrix von Storch]] claimed that the alteration meant the AfD would lose two million euros that same year, and immediately issued an emergency call for a 100-euro donation from each of its 20,000 members. <ref> Ben Knight, [http://www.dw.com/en/after-the-gold-rush-afd-loses-state-subsidies/a-18928520 'After the gold rush: AfD loses state subsidies'], ''Die Welt'', 18 December 2015. Accessed 13 September 2016. </ref>
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