BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht considers the debate over singing the GDR anthem at an AfD event to be completely overblown. “Anyone who wants to sing the GDR anthem should sing it. Once again, people are making a scandal out of nothing,” she told the German Press Agency in Dresden. “East Germans shouldn’t let anyone take away their memory of their anthem.”
The GDR anthem was sung on Tuesday at an AfD campaign rally in Saxony-Anhalt—led by cabaret artist Uwe Steimle. AfD federal spokesperson Tino Chrupalla and the party’s top candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, also sang at least parts of the anthem at the event in Dessau-Roßlau. Afterward, the anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany was also sung.
