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Activists pose on a "United To Stop Trump" cardboard wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany to urge Americans abroad to vote, on Sept. 23.

Trump’s win: The view from Berlin

Global Politics

America’s election results were announced on the same day Germany marks the fall of the Berlin Wall. But unlike some of Donald Trump’s US critics, Germans are very careful to avoid drawing parallels between the president-elect and their past.

Frank Hessenland left Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party when he realized how far to the right it had moved. But the party continued to haunt him.

This reporter joined a new political party. But he left in horror when it turned ‘almost neo-Nazi.’

Global Politics
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