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For years, the AfD has pushed a narrative of intolerance to foreigners and migrants as a supposed threat to Germans’ security. This has taken hold among a wider German public, not least because it has been legitimised and echoed time and again by liberal, conservative and some leftwing politicians and journalists.

Many Germans, particularly in the former GDR, are worried about rising costs, high rents and cuts to social benefits. And just like in the early 90s, many are channelling their frustration through bias and hatred directed at non-ethnic Germans.

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