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People & Power Investigates the reasons behind the rise of the far right in Germany.
For the first time since the 1930s, the far right is on the verge of a national electoral breakthrough in Germany. February’s snap parliamentary election is looming, with the opinion polls putting the alternative for Germany (AFD) party second with about 18-20 percent.
The AfD is anti-immigration, anti-European Union, often pro-putin and is being monitored by German Intelligence Agencies. Could dissatisfaction with Mainstream politics and economic stagnation thruist a german far-right party into real power for the first time since world war II? Most parties rule out power-sharing with the section. More than 100 mps support a move to ban the section for “extremism”. But how long will the party be ostracised if it continues to surge in nationwide popularity?
People & Power Travels Across Germany, Visiting the Afd Party Convention, its heartlands in the east, and talks to refugee communities who are feeling increasingly vulnerable to a new Wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
