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INSIDE THE WORLD OF MARTIN SELLNER, MILLENNIAL INFLUENCER OF EUROPE’S FAR RIGHT


THE POST SPENT TIME WITH SELLNER TO UNDERSTAND HIS SECRETIVE MOVEMENT AND HOW
HIS RHETORIC FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND AUSTRIA’S ELECTION ON
SUNDAY.

Martin Sellner poses for a portrait in the home of his mentor and publisher,
Götz Kubitschek, in Schnellroda, Germany. (Helena Lea Manhartsberger for The
Washington Post)
12 min
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By Anthony Faiola
and 
Souad Mekhennet
September 28, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. EDT

SCHNELLRODA, Germany — In a food hall adorned with pastoral scenes of rural
German life, Martin Sellner, self-proclaimed champion of mass migrant
deportations, fielded question from a rapt audience. An ash-blond young mother
raised her hand. She remarked on the importance of improving Germanic gene
pools, then asked whether a people of such “progress and innovation” should
honestly see themselves as run-of-the-mill humans.


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