The narrative is spreading on social media that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that she used immigration on purpose to stop the extreme right in the country. SIC Verifies.
A post on social media, accompanied by an excerpt from an apparent interview with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is being used to spread the following idea: “Angela Merkel admitted that she deliberately flooded Germany with third world migrants to ‘stop the far right'”.
To the statement is added the opinion, in question format, that the former leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party should “respond criminally”.
O tweet generated reactions (with much criticism of the former chancellor) and a assumption that the allegation presented is true. Although this publication appears in Portuguese, the same narrative – with the same idea, word for word – is spread across and in .
Did Merkel really admit to having allowed migration to stop the far right?
One Analysis of the video does not allow us to conclude that the former chancellor admitted this. What Angela Merkel states in the two minutes of video is that It doesn’t matter whether a “citizen has been German for two years or four days, or whether his entire family has been German for generations”since they are all the German people.
In your opinion, everyone must unite – regardless of whether or not they are immigrants – against forces that “stand for things that simply do not align with the fundamental principles of the Constitution” german.
There is no evidence or public record that Merkel admittedon video or otherwise, to have “deliberately flooded” Germany with migrants to “stop the extreme right”. THE narrative circulates mainly in social media publications without evidence or reliable sources to support it.
As for the video, it is a excerpt from his participation in the podcast produced by the German network ‘hr’ (Hessischer Rundfunk). The “hr” logo in the top left corner of the image confirms the origin of the content. The episode was recorded at the ARD studio in Berlin and published on March 6, 2026.
The podcast’s editorial team denies the allegation
SIC Verifica contacted the podcast’s editorial team in order to clarify whether there could have been a time when the former chancellor could have said something similar or something like that could be inferred. In response, the communications team at German network ‘hr’ indicated that “the allegation circulating on social media is false.”
“In the aforementioned episode of the program ‘Freiheit Deluxe’, Angela Merkel did not claim, either explicitly or implicitly, that she had ‘deliberately flooded Germany with Third World migrants’ to stop the extreme right’. This interpretation is incorrect and cannot be inferred from the conversation“, it indicates.
The narrative of a “deliberate flood” for political purposes is a common thesis in circles promoting the “Great Replacement” theory. However, Merkel never admitted a political decision to open borders to stop the extreme right. On the contrary: in the past, in 2016, that this same policy of immigration had in his party, even favoring the Alternative for Germany (AfD), but maintained his position that he had made the right decisions for the sake of humanity.
Remember that, in 2015, Germany welcomed more than one million refugees.
SIC verifies that it is…
Video analysis and confirmation from the German networkhr‘, to which the interview was given, prove that the narrative is incorrect and distorted. Furthermore, there is no record that Angela Merkel ever admitted such a thing.
