WorldcrunchAstrid Geisler is deputy head of the Investigative Research and Data department at ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE. She regularly reports on right-wing extremism and sexual violence against children, and more recently, on climate issues. She joined ZEIT ONLINE in 2015. Previously, she worked as a reporter and in the parliamentary office at the tageszeitung (taz) and as the Northern Germany correspondent for the news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
A secretive organization is training children in nationalist ideology, drawing on the legacy of banned neo-Nazi groups. With ties to former extremists and echoes of Hitler Youth rituals, the Jungadler operates under the radar — and may have been active for over a decade.
On social networks, people on the extreme right use emojis to encode their ideology. Over the past eight years, two Dutch researchers have become experts in this symbolic language that operates across borders — in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany alike.