The German Democratic Empire. How the extreme right destroys history and democracy. Reading and discussion with Dr. Volker Weiß.

The extreme right speaks of a spiritual civil war raging in Germany – and simultaneously fuels it. This struggle is about nothing less than the authority to interpret history and the present, aiming to detach Germany from the West. The contradictory, idealizing, and often shrill historical constructions of the extreme right point to one goal: a "German Democratic Empire" as a synthesis of the authoritarian systems of Germany's past. Volker Weiß analyzes these new methods of cultural warfare, particularly in the fields of history and geopolitics. He highlights the current development of new right-wing thinking and broadens the perspective to comparable actions by right-wing groups in Russia and the USA. Speaker: Dr. Volker Weiß, historian. He studied literary studies, social and economic history, and psychology. In cooperation with the Protestant Adult Education Braunschweig and the Department of Religious Education and Media Education of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig (ARPM).