Ten Euros Per Nazi
In Fulda, someone figured out how to turn Nazi marches into fundraisers for refugee aid. It’s elegant enough that I’m still not sure if I’m looking at genius or just devastating strategy.
Here’s how it works: pledge ten euros per Nazi who shows up to a demonstration. Every body on the street, every moment they spend making noise—it all becomes donations for refugee organizations. The thing’s called Hetzen für Flüchtlinge, a pun so dark I won’t even try unpacking it fully. Hateful for Refugees.
Inciting for Refugees.
Something like that. The wordplay carries the whole concept anyway.
This is in areas where the far-right has built a real apparatus—rallies, flyers, constant noise about deportations and border closures. So someone looked at that and thought: what if we let them keep doing exactly what they’re doing, but flip the scoreboard?
It’s not about bans or legal silencing. It’s about letting them march and just watching their participation become profitable for the exact opposite of what they believe. There’s a clarity to it that matters. The Nazis are marching. Refugees are being helped. That’s the complete thought.
Will it change minds? No. Probably nothing does. But there’s something almost cool about a strategy that doesn’t even pretend otherwise—that doesn’t imagine the right counter-protest or the right argument will convert anyone. It just says: you want to speak? It costs you. That money goes to them.