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I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship | Carolin Würfel
GermanyAlternative für Deutschland (AfD)The far rightEuropean Union
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Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer tooThe fear that a fascist, far-right movement would rise to power again in Germany has been with me since my youth. On 6 September, the far-right, anti-immigrant, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a landslide in Saxony-Anhalt, becoming the biggest party in the state parliament, with a shocking 44% of the vote, on a record turnout. If it finds a way to power it
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