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It's mind boggling how a suspiciously nazi friendly party can get so many votes. Doesn't Germany have some serious anti-nazi laws written into it's constitution, or is that treated like a joke too like in Hungary?
Nazi symbolism is forbidden and some slogans. One of the leaders of AfD was recently fined for using one such slogan. The secret service tasked with protecting the constitution (Verfassungsschutz) is watching the AfD and a mechanism to outlaw the party is currently worked on. We need to wait for the repost of this secret service to really start the mechanism. Once started it is estimated to need at least 4 years to get a result. So even if successfull the AfD will be in the government in a lot of states till then and possibly be in the federal government.
Germany is slow when it comes to prosecuting the far right. Usually when there are big protests against the far right the police distracts from them by arresting former member of the far left terror organization RAF which has been inactice for decades.
Germany sold everyone the myth of denazification, while in some cases it was even more nazification, look at the articles liked in this comment for example.
Pretty sure the first order of business is going to be to remove those laws.