Annetta Kahane reads a death-list email that says, “you are now first place on our killing list.”
1. Day X, Part 2: In the Stomach connects Franco A., Annetta Kahane, Claudia Roth, and Germany’s far-right threat.
2. Katrin Benhold narrates the episode, while Annetta Kahane chairs the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and Claudia Roth serves as vice president of the German Bundestag.
3. The episode asks why German institutions kept missing far-right violence even when death lists, threats, and weapons were already visible.
4. Kahane says the Federal Criminal Police Office told her about a diary found for Franco A. and a list of names that included her own.
5. The transcript says the list named the foreign minister, intellectuals, and human rights activists, and described them as “enemies to be killed.”
6. Prosecutors say Franco A. posed as a Syrian refugee, wrote voice memos, and traveled to Berlin in summer 2016 to surveil a target.
7. The indictment also says he drew a map, photographed license plates in a parking garage, and later appeared at a shooting range with an assault rifle.
8. Benhold says a maintenance worker finding a gun in an airport bathroom exposed the wider network linked to Day X.
9. Annetta Kahane says her phone fills with threats, including an email claiming she is “now first place on our killing list.”
10. She also describes growing up in East Berlin, where classmates told her jokes about burning Jews and called her a “Jewish pig.”
11. Kahane says she did not recognize those experiences as anti-Semitism at first and compared her childhood doubt to “a gaslight situation.”
12. She recalls that in the 1980s a strong neo-Nazi movement grew in East Germany while the government denied its existence.
13. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, she says she crossed into the West and immediately heard someone yell, “Ausländer raus, foreigners away.”
14. Kahane argues that the later response from politicians and police treated violence as “Einzelfälle,” or single cases, instead of a wider pattern.
15. Claudia Roth says Franco A. entered the Bundestag open house, reached the Green Party booth, and was escorted out only afterward.
16. Roth says the police told her that as long as he was not in prison, he was allowed to move freely.
17. The episode’s tone mixes reporting, testimony, and archival narration, with long interviews interrupted by evidence from indictments and police accounts.
18. The format stays restrained and investigative, with the two women speaking directly about threats, identity, and institutional blindness.
19. Listeners interested in German politics, far-right violence, and institutional failure.
20. Listeners wanting a light overview without threats, history, or policy detail.
