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Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?

Source: newyorker.com newyorker.com
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Q. & A.Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?Members of the Alternative for Germany party hold up a sign bearing the image of the party’s top candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, as they celebrate the results of Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany.Source photograph by Matthias Schrader / APSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyOn Sunday, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, known as the AfD, won nearly forty-four per cent of the vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD beat the second-place finisher, the center-right Christian Democratic Union, by...
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