Far-right parties are on the rise all across Europe. In Germany the AfD is now present in all of the country's 16 regional parliaments.
We spoke with Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations and author of the book "Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right"
Speaking exclusively to Euronews, she explained the shift which is taking place in European societies and the methods which are being used by extreme right political parties.
"They are very, very adept at using the free speech issue, and what they are doing is actually pushing at the limits of free speech to actually push forward a more openly xenophobic and racist agenda. And actually the extreme right electoral parties are very good at this. Look at Afd, there are certain subjects in Germany that have become taboo, being openly racist, denying the Holocaust, and the Afd are pushing at this all the time and they are using sort of nationalism and the idea that the nation, the people of the nation, the German Volk are martyrs, are victims to a kind of political correctness on free speech.
While Germany recognises its dark past and Berlin is marked by memorials for the victims of Third Reich, as time passes, will the message "Never again" still be heard loud and clear? Fekete believes much will depend on the strength and conviction of politicians in the future.