The real story of how the Nazis have returned to Germany’s parliament – Why denazification failed in communist East Germany – and how that fuels today’s Holocaust-denying, anti-immigrant German far right, the Alternative for Germany | haaretz.com

In Saturday’s leadership election for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, Alexander Gauland was elected co-chairman. That was a further victory for the party’s völkisch-nationalist wing, which had blocked the bid by relative moderate Georg Pazderski. Gauland, who already co-chairs the party’s parliamentarians and had once urged Germans to be “proud of German soldiers’ achievements in the two world wars, gained 67.8 percent of the party congress votes.