More than 100 associations and foundations have sent an urgent letter to Chancellor Scholz, because they see their position opposing right-wing extremism threatened by AfD interventions against the granting of non-profit status based on current non-profit law. Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, commented decisively on this during a visit to the Auschwitz Memorial:

"Survivors of the German concentration and extermination camps strongly support the letter from numerous dedicated organizations, especially because of their own experiences and memories.

They are well-aware of the strategy of right-wing extremist parties to cleverly exploit weaknesses in existing laws and regulations in their fight against democracy and its supporters. Their aim here is to destabilize and combat democratic initiatives and associations.

Especially in these days, all democratic parties in the German Bundestag are being urgently called upon to take the information provided by citizens seriously. They must join together and amend the relevant law in such a way that the AfD can no longer succeed in having the legal status withdrawn from associations involved in democratic engagement against right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism and branding them as unworthy of support."