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Book presentation by and with Philipp Ruch (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit) & Dr. Nahlah Saimeh
What the AfD is up to – and how we can stop it.
“This book is a spiritual weapon!” – Georg Diez
Philipp Ruch, founder of the Center for Political Beauty and activist artist against right-wing extremism, will be joining forces with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Nahlah Saimeh on 5 October to create a thinking space about “evil” at Werk*raum.
Dr. Nahlah Saimeh is considered the best-known forensic psychiatrist in Germany. She has spent years treating serious offenders and in her day-to-day work is constantly grappling with the question of why people do terrible things. She talks to Philipp Ruch about his new book “Es ist 5 vor 1933. Was die AfD vorhat - und wie wir sie stoppen”. In it, Philipp Ruch looks back into the country’s political past and asks whether our defense policy against the AfD today is better than the one against the NSDAP back then. To this end, he has compiled over 2,000 pieces of evidence of the AfD’s hostility to the constitution, which leave no doubt that this party should have been banned long ago.
The firewall is crumbling and the far-right party is preparing to take on government responsibility. The plan: to abolish democracy and restructure Germany from within. How can we grasp the full extent of what an AfD state would do today?
“This book takes a look into the future. It makes us see. It invites us to anticipate now. To know now. It is directed against all those who still hope. Those who believe in the moderate character of the AfD and think that its potential for violence will be contained. We must correct these misjudgements now - before it’s too late.” – Philipp Ruch