30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor After years of building support on the fringe, the party found its ultranationalist message - and the speeches of its leader, Adolf Hitler - gaining new traction in the economic hardship of the Great Depression. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, emerged late in 1919 and took its notorious name in early 1920, quickly developing a paramilitary wing itself. believes in a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the German nation, and he is accused of plotting one or several assassinations meant to bring down the democratic government.Īfter the war, many newly unemployed soldiers in Germany joined paramilitary groups that eventually supported the rise of Nazism - a history that helps explain why Germans are so alarmed by recent evidence of far-right sympathies among soldiers.
Like the members of the paramilitary groups in the 1920s, Franco A. In Day X, Katrin Bennhold, The Times’s Berlin bureau chief, interviews Franco A., a military officer on trial on charges of plotting terrorism. It animated groups that plotted coups and assassinated politicians in the decade before Hitler came to power.
This toxic conspiracy theory, known as the “stab-in-the-back legend,” became a keystone of Nazi propaganda, in which the civilian leaders were portrayed as the puppets of leftists and Jews. These bitter concessions became emblems of a powerful myth, particularly widespread among veterans: that Germany’s military could have won the war, but instead had been betrayed and humiliated by the civilian leadership. The treaty declared Germany to blame for the war and ordered it to pay vast reparations, limit its armed forces and surrender territory. Below, we set out some key moments for the far right in modern Germany, and highlight some earlier events that may help to understand the threat is poses. While the series is focused on Germany’s present, it’s also a story inseparable from Germany’s past. It’s a story about a changing national identity - and the backlash against it - raising a question that democracies across the world are waking up to: What happens when the threat is coming from within? In our new audio series, Day X, we explore the recent resurgence of the far right in Germany. They are preparing for the collapse of democracy - a coming apocalypse they call Day X. The mysterious case cracked the door open to a network of far-right extremists inside the German military and the police. Franco A., whose surname is abbreviated in keeping with German privacy laws, faked a Syrian identity and posed as a refugee, only to be arrested 16 months later while retrieving a loaded gun in an airport bathroom. In 2017, a German soldier was discovered living an elaborate double life.
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