AfD's Saxony-Anhalt win sparks Nazi comparison clash

The AfD won a landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8 percent of the vote, but a press conference escalated when a journalist compared the result to the Nazi Party's 1932 rise, prompting sharp pushback from top candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Journalist Tilo Jung drew historical parallels to 1932, when the NSDAP first became minister-president in Anhalt, asking why Siegmund called the result "historic." Siegmund dismissed the comparison as "very, very strange," demanded to know who Jung was, and accused him of pursuing a political agenda. Siegmund claimed the AfD had revived democracy in Saxony-Anhalt through high voter turnout. The next electoral tests come on September 20 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin, where polls show the AfD leading or competitive.