A far-right party’s victory in a German state is reviving memories of the country’s dark past.
In the eastern state of Thuringia, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received one-third of the vote. And it picked up 30 percent of the tally in Saxony, also in eastern Germany. It is the strongest showing by a German far-right party in a free election since 1932 when the Nazis won one-third of the national vote. Adolf Hitler then became chancellor—and soon absolute dictator.
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