Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

In former East Germany, parties of the extreme right or left got 60 per cent of the vote, while in West Germany they got 30 per cent. The incoming government will have to deal with these economic ...

Over the second half of the 20th century, East and West Germany reflected the Cold War ideologies of Russia and the US. West Germany was a capitalist democracy with a prosperous economy ...