The rise of the German alt-right

For Annette, a 20-something living in the east German city of Leipzig, the disenchantment set in about five years ago. She had always been a news junkie, but then started to worry that the mainstream media was distorting the facts.

Now, she says, pushing back her blonde hair, she reads "mainly on the internet".

Her interest in alternative sources of information deepened when her bike was stolen. The theft focused her attention on what she describes as "a big rise of criminality" i...