In the eastern reaches of Germany, a political force once confined to the margins now leads polls in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, continuing a streak of electoral gains that has unsettled the country's democratic foundations. The Alternative for Germany party's rise has drawn warnings from a former chancellor who helped shape modern Germany and urgent pleas from Holocaust survivors who recognize, in the present moment, echoes of a past they survived. At stake is not merely the outcome of a state election, but the question of whether the institutions and norms built in the shadow of catastrop
AfD extends far-right momentum as Germany grapples with democratic threats
Holocaust survivors express fear following AfD electoral gains; death threat graffiti discovered against Jewish community leader Charlotte Knobloch.