Germans Are Shocked And Devastated That A Far-Right Party Is In Parliament For The First Time In 65 Years
"Y'all living in 2017 while Germany's living in 1933."
By Julia Reinstein and Rachael Krishna
Reporting From
Berlin, Germany
In Germany's election on Sunday, the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is predicted to win 13.5% of the vote, the largest percentage since the Nazis rose to power in 1933.
Germans reacted with shock and devastation at the news.
So more than one eighth of my fellow Germans are Nazis. Sobering, to say the least. #BTW17
In case you were wondering: no, there is no German word to adequately express my horror at these election results. #BTW17
There is a 13,5% chance I'll drink myself to sleep in hope to wake up and realizing I just had a nightmare. Devastated. #BTW17
I am ashamed and shocked. #BTW17 In my heart there is no place for racism.
People were horrified that such a large percentage of Germans could "vote for open racism."
Holy shit. How can we have so many ignorant stupid people in the country? How can you vote for open racism? #btw17
CAN 👏🏼YOU👏🏼BELIEVE👏🏼THAT👏🏼WE👏🏼HAVE👏🏼STILL👏🏼NAZI👏🏼PARTYS👏🏼IN👏🏼GERMANY👏🏼 IN👏🏼2017👏🏼AND👏🏼THAT👏🏼THEY👏🏼ARE👏🏼WINNING?👏🏼I👏🏼CAN‘T👏🏼 #BTW17
Many saw it as a massive step back for Germany.
Y'all living in 2017 while Germany's living in 1933. #BTW17
germans just took the biggest step back ever, how did we not learn from our past #BTW17
people who voted for afd got obviously no clue what happened 85 years ago when people voted for an extremist #btw17
Germany: we learned from our history and never want it to happen again also Germany: votes AfD 🙄 #btw17
Though some were not entirely surprised...
AfD prognose 13% ?? #BTW17
...especially considering how Trump won.
Remember when we were making fun of Americans for being so stupid.... Yeah.... #BTW17
UK: We're dumb. US: We're dumber. GER: Wait, hold my Bier. #BTW17 #BTW2017 #istschonwieder1930? #blueisthenewbrown
lol throwback when we joked about the us and trump and now we have the afd i’m 🙃 #BTW17
People are really, really angry.
@ everyone who voted for AfD #BTW17
if you are not familiar with German political parties, I made this handy chart for you #BTW17 #GermanyDecides… https://t.co/eiAIGY5YjL
And — of course — a lot of people want to move to Canada now.
ok google: how to move to Canada? #BTW17
ME MOVING TO CANADA #BTW17
WTF Germany? I again lost hope in humanity. Isn't Canada a nice place to live in? Gotta move to Canada Or just go live on mars. #BTW17
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Julia Reinstein is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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Rachael Krishna is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Rachael Krishna at rachael.krishna@buzzfeed.com.
