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‘A punch to the country’: German Jewish groups and minorities aghast at AfD victory

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In the eastern state of Thuringia , the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) emerged as the most voted-for party on Sunday .

In neighbouring Saxony it came second with almost 31% of the vote.

Exit polls suggest more than a third of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 backed the AfD , said Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee .

“The survivors are asking themselves: Didn’t we do enough to teach, to show [people]’?”.

Campaign clashed with the state’s reality of immigration levels that rank among the lowest in Germany .

The AfD has long sought to scapegoat migrants, said Maurice Stierl , a researcher at Osnabrück University .

He said: “People of colour all over Germany feel abandoned and scared. Their mass deportation fantasies will not change this reality”.

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