The “Alternative for Germany” is about to win the election in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The mainstream media says that nothing works in Eastern Germany without the AfD. There is talk of fear of the AfD and the need for a tactical vote. The complete incapacity of the traditional parties is obvious. But the complete utopia of renewing these traditional parties and giving them new impetus is also obvious. What must be done? This is the question that many ask themselves. Political parties are losing their colours. Political representatives are elitist. The people of whom the right-wing radical groups speak no longer identify with their elite leadership, which can hardly be outdone in anti-social attitudes.
By Milena Rampoldi
For many migrants, refugees and people with a migration background, the AfD means the end of diversity, pluralism, the colourful community and tolerance in Germany. The resistance movements against the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt speak of an anti-migrant fascist party that is literally “poisoning” Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt is a low-birth Land and needs migration.
Few, however, think of the AfD’s anti-social stance against its own ethnic German population. The AfD’s rejection of the school inclusion model is a fear that is only expressed in small circles, such as through “Lebenshilfe”.
What happens to the disabled learners when the AfD comes to power? The answer is quite clear: the colourful inclusion model is rejected. Pupils with disabilities no longer enrich school facilities but disappear behind the doors of special schools. This is how an apartheid education system is built. People with disabilities are an asset to our societies because they show how diversity works, because they show how tolerance is practiced.
However, the AfD is not only a party that thinks racially in the sense of Björn Höcke, but also a party that excludes people from the national body if they are mentally or physically disabled.
In the party programme, the AfD takes a clear position when it comes to the integration of people with disabilities into school facilities. The dangerous alternative for Germany opposes the so-called “ideologically motivated inclusion”, as if the idea of inclusion, that is, an attitude in favour of a colourful mosaic, as I call it in the name of my pro-mosaic initiative, were an ideological attitude. If tolerance and diversity mean ideology, then I wonder what the interaction is between ideology and fascism.
Page 150 of the AfD’s party manifesto states that children with disabilities are better off in special needs schools and schools for children with learning difficulties, because so-called mainstream schools are unable to provide inclusion. However, inclusion is not the task of a school structure, but of the community of learners who, through open education in the sense of diversity, welcome learners with disabilities and learn from them.
The “Manifesto” of ProMosaik, which opposes any educational project that resembles a brown swamp, states:
“We are young, we are old, we are black, we are white, we are rich, and we are poor, we have a disability, we are healthy: we are the wonderful affirmation of diversity and inclusion, the living embodiment of the encounter around to share the joy of learning from each other.”
Finally, my words against the AfD’s school project are these:
“School is the place of human rights, empathy, dealing with gender issues and democratisation. The school is a place of inclusion for people with disabilities. The school is a place for the acceptance of refugees and the colourful plurality.
School is where I learn to engage against fascism and racism by choosing solidarity and cooperation in my mosaic landscape and learning to live these values on an aesthetic, personal and socio-political level.”
In the here and now, we urgently need German voters who do not vote tactically, but voters who decisively oppose anti-social politics and who decisively elect politicians who want an inclusive school and who enforce inclusion for all, refugees, migrants and learners with disabilities.
The courageous Bishop Clemens August von Galen and his sermon of August 1941 must not fall into oblivion. The Lion of Münster opposed the killing of mentally ill children and the mass killing of disabled people by the Nazi regime, which described these people as “unproductive”. The move from the AfD apartheid school system to the physical killing of people with disabilities seems far-fetched, but it is not. His sermon against Nazi barbarism and his destruction of life is more important to us today than we could ever imagine.
The date of 6 September 2026 is fast approaching. The killing of unborn children with disabilities, the creation of an apartheid school on the principle of the AfD “health idea” is not far from the removal of unproductive compatriots by the Nazi regime and the creation of lists of women who should be subjected to forced sterilization due to their mental illnesses. The AfD turns the monotheistic image of man upside down. Therefore, it is anti-Semitic and Islamophobic. Because the AfD is above all deeply anti-humanist. And the AfD is racist because it thinks and acts against humanism.
Because as people with disabilities are rejected, so are the ethnic others and the refugees are removed from the national body. For ProMosaik, children with disabilities are an important source of added value in school facilities.
