Rich and retired: the boom beneficiaries who finance Germany's far right


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  • Tuesday, 02 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: People gather on the day of the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - To hear Hartmut Issmer tell it, Germany's recent history is one of decline from the 1970s to 2015, when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel let the migrants in.

The construction engineer, who grew rich from the property boom in eastern Germany and is now the far-right Alternative for Germany's biggest known donor, looks with nostalgia to a time when he was in his 20s and with trepidation to the future.

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