Overview

• In a Spiegel interview, Brandt criticized what he called the 'Angstdämonisierung,' or fearful demonization, of right-wing radicalism and urged that its banality be laid bare.
• He warned that overstating the extremist threat can grant radical factions undue stature and foster a public paralysis in confronting them.
• Brandt is set to speak at the 81st anniversary of Claus von Stauffenberg’s 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler in Berlin this Sunday.
• The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s spring decision to label the AfD a secured extremist movement remains on hold pending a court ruling.
• He contrasted today’s cautious response to right-wing forces with his parents’ unflinching defiance of Nazism, drawing on his father Willy Brandt’s exile-era resistance.