The 2015 New Year 's Eve attacks in Cologne resulted in accusations that the federal government and media were deliberately avoiding public interest reporting on 1,200 sexual assaults by thousands of young male Muslim immigrants . Apologies for hesitancy by public television channel ZDF strengthened claims of a '' Lügenpresse '' ( lying press ) by populist and far-right parties as evidence for widespread conspiracy by German institutions . The unprecedented scale of border crossings during 2015 and 2016 compelled Chancellor Angela Merkel to impose " temporary restrictions " on transit across the border with Austria . The alt-right conspiracy website Zero Hedge listed statistics on migrant crime in Germany alongside statements from politicians and news articles , presented as " contradictions confirming a deep-state level of conspiracy ... to push through a pro-immigration policy in Germany " . During the 2017 German election campaign , the far-right Alternative for Germany party ran advertisements featuring a pregnant woman 's abdomen with the slogan , " New Germans ? We 'll make them ourselves . " A state-sponsored campaign led by President Viktor Orbán has employed a wide range of historical anti-Semitic tropes to accuse philanthropist George Soros of engaging in conspiracies to support and deceive the public about nonwhite immigrants . Orbán has accused Soros , a Jew whose family survived hostile conditions during Hungary 's Nazi occupation , of being a Nazi himself , and has introduced legislation known as the " Stop Soros law " to criminalize organized support of immigrants . These fabrications have become popular with the alt-right in Europe and the US . Orbán 's 2018 campaign slogan was , " Christianity is Europe 's last hope " , saying , " our worst nightmares can come true . The West falls as it fails to see Europe being overrun . " Hundreds of Polish Facebook groups such as " Stop White Genocide " have produced and disseminated images depicting African and Middle eastern people as belonging to separate " primitive " species , lacking the human intelligence of White Europeans . Websites such as " Conspiracy Files " have fabricated allegations of political compacts to bolster nonwhite immigration against popular will , such as agreements signed by EU leaders and African nations to increase Europe 's African population to 300 million by 2068 , making native Whites , " minorities within their own homeland "
2015 New Year 's Eve attacks
2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
White genocide conspiracy theory