Why the far-right AfD has been so successful in Germany

The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is riding a populist wave across Europe’s largest economy.
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According to polls conducted this month, the AfD has become the strongest party in Thuringia, a former state of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), for the first time since the Nazi era. In Saxony, another former GDR state, the party finished a very close second behind the CDU.

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