(Top) Bassen and Frey’s house pictured shortly after its construction; and the couple posing for a picture in their house once belonging to a former SS doctor, in Waldsiedlung Krumme Lanke. — Patrick Junker/The New York Times
ONE January morning, Susanne Bucker, a family doctor in Berlin, awoke with a sense of dread.
National elections loomed, and Elon Musk – billionaire, provocateur and previously US President Donald Trump’s most vocal cheerleader – had begun publicly backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party whose leaders have downplayed the Holocaust and dabbled in Nazi rhetoric.
