Support for the far-right AfD doubled in this election. Most of it came from the former East Germany, where deep divisions remain, nearly 35 years after German reunification. DW’s Alex Gerst went to Frankfurt (Oder) on the border with Poland to find out why.
00:00 AfD’s core support comes from eastern Germany
03:10 Thorsten Faas, Free University Berlin
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