The right-wing populist party «Alternative for Germany» (AfD) achieved record results in the elections to the regional parliaments of Thuringia and Saxony. Whether AdG will be in the government is still unclear, but the German weekly Der Spiegel has already stressed that «for the first time since 1945 right-wing extremists win elections in Germany» and called the event «a liberal democracy crisis». Does the sign of Nazism continue to haunt Germany? Why does the fight against political symbols not prevent Germans from gradually forgetting the tragedy of their ancestors? And what helped Germany best in its fight against Nazism? Against the backdrop of elections in Germany’s federal states, Berlin-based writer and translator Peter Kuras discusses this in a column for the New York Times.
Elections in Germany: closing the eyes on the demons of the past and present is no longer possible
Why AfD could trigger a constitutional crisis in regional elections
