
AfD pits Bauhaus legacy against democracy as German vote nears
Ahead of a pivotal Saxony-Anhalt election, Germany’s far-right AfD escalates attacks on the Bauhaus legacy, using the modernist icon to frame cultural openness as a threat. In response, cultural and architectural groups rally around a pro‑Bauhaus manifesto defending Dessau’s Bauhaus Foundation and pledging government support regardless of the election outcome, noting the Nazis’ historic persecution of the school and its lasting global influence.
