Nazi salutes in the yard, painted swastikas on the classroom tables and the occasional Nazi message on the blackboard. Two German teachers have denounced the dangerous increase in extremism in schools just 80 kilometers from Berlin.

Their complaint has cost them the signal, as in the time of Hitler: on social networks they have asked to hunt down those teachers from a school in Burg, in eastern Germany. Laura Nickel, one of the teachers, explained that in the classroom “extreme right-wing statements, actions, slogans, homophobia and sexism were the order of the day”.

For years, they have fought against the rise of Nazism in the classroom, and, tired of getting nothing, They decide to go public. “Since then, we have suffered threats, insults and serious obstacles”, Laura told the press. On social networks, she was literally encouraged to “hunt them down” and stickers appeared with their photo urging them to leave for Berlin. In addition, the parents of the students called for them to be fired: “We had to quit our job.”

These teachers regret the lack of support they received from local administrations and from the school itself. Timo Fundación, the other teacher who has denounced the situation, has assured that for “the Nazis it is their area, their home”. “The teachers’ intervention met with much national condemnation, but in Brandenburg nothing has happened“, Timo pointed out.

There Alternative for Germany, the extreme right, has almost a third of the votes. A boom that worries the whole country. The current crisis situation, generated by the pandemic and by the war, with more than a million Ukrainian refugees in Germany, is contributing to the rise of the extreme right, which is increasingly entrenched in eastern parts of the country. In the zone, the extreme right has been active for years, and the authorities have looked the other way as Nazism became dominant.