Overview
- The Gießen prosecutor confirmed a preliminary examination under Section 86a of the Criminal Code into Kevin Dorow’s remark at the AfD youth wing’s founding event, with potential penalties of up to three years in prison or a fine.
- Dorow used the line “Jugend muss durch Jugend geführt werden” during a November 29 candidacy speech in Gießen and was elected to the federal board of the newly formed Generation Deutschland.
- Reports note the wording’s roots in pre‑Nazi youth movements and its later adoption by the Hitler Youth, while Dorow defends it as originating in the Wandervogel tradition and rejects calls to distance himself.
- Thuringia’s AfD leader Björn Höcke had circulated the same phrase in August before deleting the post, saying it was not originally from the Nazi era but was later taken up and misused by the Hitler Youth.
- Domestic intelligence chief Sinan Selen sees personnel and content continuity between Generation Deutschland and the dissolved Junge Alternative, and party leader Alice Weidel has declined to distance herself from Dorow’s wording.