Friedrich Merz is now on borrowed time. But that’s not why the AfD’s triumph is seismic | Jörg Lau
The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shatteredAs shock at the scale of the far right’s resounding state-election victory in...
By Jörg Lau · The Guardian Opinion
The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered As shock at the scale of the far right’s resounding state-election victory in Germany reverberated on Sunday, not everybody was unhappy. Seconds after the first exit polls from Saxony-Anhalt were revealed, Donald Trump posted the results on his Truth Social platform, seemingly delighted by the devastation of the centrist-conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the surge of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Jörg Lau is an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zeit Continue reading...