Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years.

Since German reunification in 1990 there has been a steady decline of inhabitants, particularly among young workers. Map showing the ... dependent on coal and a former thriving textile industry ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis. Where the AfD won the most votes. Hamburg Berlin Cologne ...