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With Nazi trauma wearing off, Germany’s far right is making significant inroads
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Mr Bjorn Hocke is the head of the AfD faction in the regional Parliament in Thuringia.
PHOTO: JOST LISTEMANN
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BERLIN – When far-right leader Bjorn Hocke took to the stage at an election rally in Oranienburg city, the ground had been prepared.
Amid a cheering crowd in the small eastern city outside Berlin, the speakers before him had railed against migrants, green climate policy, and a government they accused of trying to destroy the nation with its policies.
