Out of its time: Germany’s ominous election campaign

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Out of its time: Germany’s ominous election campaign

Cover image: picture alliance / REUTERS | Fabrizio Bensch Travel in any cardinal direction is possible from Berlin’s main train station: north to Denmark and Sweden; west to France and the low countries; south to the Czech Republic and Austria; east to Poland and, beyond, Ukraine. It is a steel-and-glass proclamation, in the reunified capital’s government district, of Germany’s return to the heart of Europe. More than that, it symbolises the lon…