Wagner criticises ZDF in matters of AfD and then relativizes

Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorials, tells ZDF that it is pinching in front of the AfD. The station does not let this happen. Wagner then gives his criticism a general direction.

Jens-Christian Wagner attested to a journalist of ZDF's precipitating obedience. She asked him in the interview not to talk about the AfD.

Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, criticized ZDF for "progressive obedience".

1. Memorial Director Accuses ZDF – Broadcaster Denies Allegations (t-online.de, Jonas Mueller-Töwe) Jens-Christian Wagner, Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation, told t-online.de that he was asked in a ZDF interview not to make direct connections between the AfD and National Socialist propaganda for fear of right-wing incitement on social media (see yesterday's "6 vor 9").

Muzzle Dispute: ZDF responds to the accusation of historian Jens-Christian Wagner that a journalist from the station had asked him not to mention the AfD in an interview. The director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation had reported that the reporter had told him that she assumed that the editorial staff would not send an AfD statement. Furthermore, she feared right-wing extremes, anti-Semitic comments on social media.