Berlin
Rising up against ultra-right: More than 1.4 million Germans braved bitter cold to protest in cities across the nation this week against a right-wing scheme for mass deportations of immigrants. The demonstrations came after the investigative outlet Correctiv reported that members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party had met with neo-Nazi groups late last year in Potsdam to develop a deportation “master plan”—in a sinister echo of the 1942 Wannsee Conference that discussed the Nazis’ plan to exterminate the Jews—for use if it attains power. The AfD, a once marginal party that is now polling a close second place to the center-right Christian Democrats, said the gathering had been a “private event, not an AfD party event.”