SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE –Last week, Germany’s public prosecutor had eight far-right activists arrested on terrorism charges. The suspects have links with numerous well-known organizations on the far-right scene, with the AfD and as far afield as the Ukraine.
On reading what the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” wrote in 2020 about Kurt Hättasch, it’s hard to imagine that this man, now aged 25, could be a dangerous right-wing militant. At the time, the newspaper portrayed Hättasch as a young citizen with a selfless commitment to the preservation of historical monuments.
On the occasion of a performance by the Grimma brass band (in which Hättasch played flugelhorn) in the village of Kleinbothen, the student had seen how much a “historic monument” could be preserved. memorial stone was dilapidated. He had therefore decided to renovate the monument bearing an inscription to the memory of the heroes of the 1914-1918.
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It now seems likely that Hättasch’s commitment was not limited to a simple sense of responsibility or a harmless interest in German history, but had more to do with a form of national pride, far exceeding the limits of the constitutional order.
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