Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Frauke Petry: Germany's Trump?
Right-wing nationalism is on the rise in Europe. In Germany, the face of the movement is a 41-year-old chemist named Frauke Petry, an outsider whose political star has only started to rise .
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readRight-wing nationalism is on the rise in Europe. In Germany, the face of the movement is a 41-year-old chemist named Frauke Petry, an outsider whose political star has only started to rise. She thinks that Germans should stop dwelling on the crimes of the past, stop apologizing for the Holocaust, and focus on the future: a future without refugees from places like Syria. Her enemies call her “Adolfina.”
