The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a

Marine Le Pen’s rupture with her German allies reveals a tactical fault line between the ‘old’ right and the ‘new’

Momentous change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment.

The far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European parliament last week expelled the entire Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction from its ranks after a furore involving the leading AfD candidate Maximiian Krah.