Germany has been jolted. Angela Merkel has taken a hit. The nativist Alternative for Germany sounds uncomfortably tolerant of Hitler’s Nazis.
Some perspective is required. Britain has voted for Brexit, the US for Donald Trump. Sitting in Berlin, the backing given to the AfD by 12.5 per cent of Germans does not feel like the stirring of a Fourth Reich.
Many Germans understandably are appalled that a party so virulently xenophobic should have broken the taboo that hitherto has excluded the far right from the federal parliament. You need take only a few steps in the capital to see how the memory of Germany’s darkest days has been preserved and nurtured as the custodian of today’s liberal democracy.
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