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. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► 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. The Guardian’s Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, explains how the AfD has risen from its eurosceptic origins to a party that is ’managing to set the agenda’ in German politics Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart ► Everyone is terrified of a far-right return in Germany. Here’s why it won’t happen https://www