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The Great Replacement: How a 2011 Novel Became a Blueprint for Terror (Germany, 2023)

Das Narrativ vom »großen Austausch«: Rassismus, Sexismus und Antifeminismus im neurechten Untergangsmythos

Nadja Kutscher

In 2011, a French novelist wrote a dark fantasy about Europe being taken over. Today, that exact fiction is used to justify real-world terror attacks, fuel political movements, and fabricate demographic science. German scholar Dr. Nadja Kutscher from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg reverse-engineers this conspiracy myth in her groundbreaking book *Das Narrativ vom »großen Austausch«: Rassismus, Sexismus und Antifeminismus im neurechten Untergangsmythos*. She reveals how the New Right uses critical discourse analysis to twist everyday anxieties into a doomsday panic, weaponizing biopolitics, historical propaganda from the 1920s, and linguistic echoes of the Third Reich. This video dissects the invisible machinery behind the narrative, showing how it hijacks your fears, turns women into pawns, and creeps into mainstream conversation. Understand the architecture of this mass hallucination—and why it matters for our future.