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‼️BREAKING: The hacker behind the AfD email leak told us they targeted the party to expose what they call its greed and financial misuse.
"Hacktivism is often the only answer to populism of this magnitude."
"The AFD takes a legitimate frustration and uses it to rob the poorest 20% of this country," they wrote.
"The amount of financial misuse in these documents is appalling, regardless of what you think of immigrants."
"Hacktivism is often the only answer to populism of this magnitude."
"The AFD takes a legitimate frustration and uses it to rob the poorest 20% of this country," they wrote.
"The amount of financial misuse in these documents is appalling, regardless of what you think of immigrants."
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❗️ AfD Berlin leader Georg Pazderski pitched a campaign songbook of children's songs with their "original lyrics", a 2017 email attributed to him shows.
Examples include "10 kleine Negerlein" and "Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben".
"We would be assured of a media frenzy," it says.
Examples include "10 kleine Negerlein" and "Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben".
"We would be assured of a media frenzy," it says.
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❗️ The AfD's Bundestag group invited Rafi Eitan, the Mossad operations chief behind Adolf Eichmann's capture, to speak at a February 2018 event, an invitation shows.
A Likud judge and Berlin's former chief rabbi were also listed.
It said an official from Russia might join too.
A Likud judge and Berlin's former chief rabbi were also listed.
It said an official from Russia might join too.
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❗️ Alice Weidel passed AfD board member Dirk Driesang an allegation that a Saarland party professor wanted to "use the NPD as foot soldiers" and used a racial slur, a 2016 email attributed to Driesang says.
He weighed questioning the man or throwing him off party bodies.
He weighed questioning the man or throwing him off party bodies.
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❗️ Georg Pazderski asked the AfD board in July 2019 to discuss "cooperation" with Götz Kubitschek's Institut für Staatspolitik and Jürgen Elsässer's Compact magazine, an email forwarded by Alexander Gauland shows.
It cited the Identitarian Movement's extremist classification.
It cited the Identitarian Movement's extremist classification.
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❗️ The AfD in North Rhine-Westphalia suspended a member in August 2025 over an X post of chocolate marshmallows staged as a Ku Klux Klan lynching, an archived party notice shows.
The post had 24,500 views.
An earlier expulsion bid had stalled since March 2025.
The post had 24,500 views.
An earlier expulsion bid had stalled since March 2025.
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❗️ AfD MP Frank Pasemann sought in 2018 to have a member expelled for allegedly spreading a voice message urging serious crimes against "Kanacken" [Turks], an email forwarded by Alexander Gauland shows.
A party court later refused to add his submission to the case file.
A party court later refused to add his submission to the case file.
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❗️ An AfD regional leader told the NRW state board in April 2025 that a Bottrop board member sold a swastika flag at the party's info stand and distributed drugs at party events.
He said a majority "supposedly steered" by state MP Christian Blex blocked an expulsion motion.
He said a majority "supposedly steered" by state MP Christian Blex blocked an expulsion motion.
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❗️ An AfD state board member in North Rhine-Westphalia sent colleagues a list of 2,000 names and addresses of "antifascists" in 2016 to keep "a watchful eye" on them, an email shows.
He suggested naming them as witnesses after attacks so someone might "lose their nerve".
He suggested naming them as witnesses after attacks so someone might "lose their nerve".
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❗️ AfD headquarters suspected in 2019 that an ex-board member exported its member files and 1,465,178 bank-data records, emails show.
The tip-off was a SPIEGEL query about a €150 donation from Stephan Ernst, Walter Lübcke's convicted killer.
Georg Pazderski wanted charges.
The tip-off was a SPIEGEL query about a €150 donation from Stephan Ernst, Walter Lübcke's convicted killer.
Georg Pazderski wanted charges.
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