Posted on 06/19/2026 7:01:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In Germany, Antifa groups are targeting AfD politicians and anyone suspected of affiliation to the party by increasingly violent means.
Protesters take part in a demonstration outside the Hyparschale hall in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, venue of a regional congress of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, on April 11, 2026. - RONNY HARTMANN / AFP.
Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament member Michael Meister was brutally attacked outside his private residence in Rostock on Wednesday night, in what is being investigated as a politically motivated assault by suspected left-wing extremists.
Meister said he first felt “pressure in his back” and believes one of the attackers attempted to stab him from behind. The blow was reportedly stopped by a laptop inside his backpack. The AfD politician nevertheless sustained several injuries during the attack, including a “cut to his left arm,” a kick to his leg, and “at least one punch to the face.”
Following the incident, Meister was taken to an outpatient clinic. A spokeswoman for the Rostock police confirmed that he was able to leave the facility the same day.
The incident comes amid growing concerns about political violence in Germany, particularly violence directed against members of the AfD. According to German government data from May, violent attacks against politicians increased by 28% in 2025. Of the 183 recorded violent crimes targeting politicians, 121 were directed at AfD representatives, making the party by far the most frequent target.
For AfD members, the hostility extends beyond physical attacks. Critics point to growing efforts to marginalize people associated with the party in public life.
One recent example involved veteran bookseller and publisher Michael Genniges, who received the Silver Medal of Honour from the Upper Franconia local government but calls later emerged to revoke the honour after the far-left organisation Alliance Against Right-Wing Extremism launched a campaign against him–because of his AfD membership.
For Meister, Wednesday night’s assault was not an isolated incident. In December 2021, the 51-year-old politician was attacked from behind by two individuals who allegedly shouted insults including “You AfD Nazi pig.” A year later, in November 2022, unknown perpetrators slashed the tires of the state parliament member’s vehicle. It was reportedly the third such attack on his car within a 13-month period.
The attack also comes as authorities report a significant increase in left-wing extremist violence in Germany’s capital. According to preliminary figures from the Berlin Senate, left-wing violent crimes in Berlin rose from 123 incidents in 2024 to 220 in 2025, representing a dramatic increase within a single year.
One of the most notorious incidents occurred when the left-wing extremist ‘Volcano Group’ claimed responsibility for an attack on electrical infrastructure in south-west Berlin. A fire set near a local power plant damaged high-voltage cables and cut power to approximately 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses during freezing winter weather conditions. The blackout affected large parts of the city and raised concerns about the increasingly radical tactics being employed by extremist groups.
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The leftist politicians will cover for their brown shirts.
Isn’t it ironic that right wing parties in Europe are labeled “fascist” or “Nazi”, even though the bulk of political violence there as in America is committed by Antifa-style leftwing agitators. Antifa, like its Marxist and anarchist predecessors, may claim to reject fascist ideology, but they sure love fascist tactics.
The tolerant left.
The Gay Nazis
It sounds like keeping pepper spray and a bat with you is needed with these violent people.
The Nazis were fascists and the communists hated them. Even today leftists with communist beliefs call their political enemies NAZIs or fascists. Communists and fascists had a lot in common. They both believed in one party rule by one dictator. They both hated capitalism. Communists believed that the State controlled everything. There was no personal ownership. Fascists let you own property, but if you didn’t use the property for what they wanted you to, they could take it away. Fascists and commies preached individual rights, but in truth, the only rights you had, were the ones the totalitarian state allowed you to have. Fascists and communists used violence to bring about change. Leftists today are commies and fascists combined, and hatred of Jewish people rounds out their projection.
Actually, Antifa are pretty much just communists or today's version of bomb-tossing anarchists - Fascists were nationalists, Antifa types are anti-national (at least when it comes to the nationalism of Europeans, they're all for the nationalism of Third World people).
Furthermore, Fascist and Nazi anti-capitalist rhetoric was mostly just propaganda to win over working-class voters who otherwise would have supported socialists or communists, in practice neither Hitler nor Mussolini interfered very much with private business or seized private property (except from political enemies in Mussolini's case or from both political enemies, Jews, and other non-Germans in Hitler's case - and then that private property was usually sold off to Italian or German businesses rather than nationalized).
Also, Communist and Anarchist political violence pre-dated Fascists and Nazis by many decades. The Fascists and Nazis simply mimicked the political violence of their Marxist opponents with the logic of "fighting fire with fire", using the same tactics to achieve different aims.
The Nazi Party emerged as the only organization with the most violent and organized thugs to deal with the Communists - and we know how that went.
Interestingly, the violent Communist thugs were known as Antifa for "anti fascist" and had the same flag as our current version.
The socialists wanted to nationalize banks, businesses and farms. The Fascists actually privatized several enterprises that their predecessors nationalized (as did the Nazis). The fact that Mussolini was a socialist in his youth doesn't mean very much, lots of right-wingers and others across the political spectrum started out as socialists or liberals in their youth.
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