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Why Germany’s far-right AfD youth wing faces a ban

Anna Leisten is cheerful, young and radical. That’s how she appears in the many images she’s posted on Instagram, at least.

She’s one of the best-known faces of Germany’s Junge Alternative (JA), or Young Alternative, the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Her social media profile says she can be anything “from a braid-wearing sweetie pie to a forged-iron soldier.”

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