After weeks of anti-immigrant populism, Nazi jokes and campaign violence against politicians, few would raise an eyebrow if Sunday’s two state elections were taking place in eastern Germany. Some 33 years after unification, though, the 15 million people invited to the polls live in old West Germany: the southwestern state of Hesse and southern state of Bavaria. And yet opinion polls predict that 52 and 66 per cent respectively plan to vote for right-wing or far-right parties. Things are so heated in Bavaria, in particular, that not even far-right politicians are safe. On Tuesday Alice Weidel, a leader of the...