The immigration-critical party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) is polling too well, and the German establishment is cranking up its efforts to squash the party.

That’s the sense I get from these two videos from the floor of the Bundestag. The first shows Martin Schulz, the Social Democrat leader and former President of the European Parliament. He’s a quintessential EU apparatchik, and he comes down hard on the AfD. It’s the NAZI-NAZI-NAZI scattergun, the preferred method of shutting down any political dissent in Germany.

The second video shows even nastier diatribes from other people. The vitriol is so relentless that the AfD members walk out of the chamber partway through. And notice how much applause the AfD-haters get from their fellow members of parliament.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

Martin Schulz:

Other attacks:

Video transcript #1:

00:03 Martin Schulz, SPD 00:07 The reduction of complex political issues to a single topic, being in general raised 00:14 by the minority in a country, is a traditional tool of fascism. 00:24 And today, once again, that is what we have presented here. The migrants 00:30 are to blame for everything. A similar diction has been heard on these premises at 00:35 one time. And I think it is time that the democrats in this land stand up against this 00:39 kind of rhetorical rearmament which leads to a disinhibition, resulting in violence 00:46 in the streets. It is time that democracy fight these kinds of people, Mr. President. 01:27 Mr. President, the interposed question that I wanted to ask is related to remarks 01:31 made by Mr. Gauland, that showing the Hitler salute is distasteful. 01:35 Saluting Hitler is a criminal offense, which must be prosecuted. 01:47 The kind… the kind of speech that we’ve heard here today. Once again, this 01:52 one dimensionality of complex structures in the 21st century. Everything being 01:58 reduced to a single topic. This is a stylistic device that is well known. 02:02 It is combined, Mr. President I’m finishing now, combined with phrases like 02:08 ”The thousand year reign was a drop of bird poop in history,” Mr. Gauland, 02:14 a whole lot of bird poop is a pile of manure and you belong on top of it. 02:18 in Germany’s history. —Yes, yes, super! 02:24 Mr. Gauland, you are permitted to respond to the interposed question.



Video transcript #2: