Leaked emails reveal AfD co-leader’s private warnings about nationalist colleague she now praises
Alice Weidel once sought Björn Höcke’s expulsion over Nazi-era language; today she calls him cabinet-ready
A leak of more than 400,000 internal Alternative for Germany (AfD) emails shows co-leader Alice Weidel privately denounced party firebrand Björn Höcke as racist and extremist a decade ago, warning his language risked bringing the party under intelligence surveillance. Years later, she praises his leadership and deems him suitable for a federal cabinet post, the correspondence reveals.