Column | Germany’s firewall against the far right isn’t working
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In three states, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has listed the AfD as an “extremist” organization, a reflection of concerns over its party members’ strident rhetoric on Islam and migration, their penchant for Holocaust denial, as well as links to far-right political violence. …