David McWilliams
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49 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Ah, yeah.
It was actually the place, ironically, in economic history, that sparked the re-emergence of money.
So money disappeared in the Dark Ages.
And in around 1000 AD or 1100 AD, lots and lots of silver was found in the Harz Mountains, which are right in the middle of Saxony and Halle.
So again, Magdeburg is the capital.
It's right in the center of Germany.
It was, again, as I say, the most western part of East Germany.
That is important, John, in the context that it's also the state that has suffered most emigration.
out of it to the more prosperous parts of Western Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And that is seen as part of the background story because the people who emigrated out of, well, they didn't emigrate, they migrated out of that area to maybe the Bavarias or maybe the Hanovers, the
the Ruhrgebiet, those people were largely women.
Largely well educated and largely young.
So what you get is an older population.
But the interesting fact, John, is the demographic makeup of the AFD's supporters, number one.
And number two, and I think maybe even more interesting, is the fact that
If you look at the breakdown, while 44% of people voted for the AFD, at least 30% voted for various iterations of the extreme left.
So the people are voting extreme right and extreme left.
And of course, what that means is the profound decimation of the center.
The center that has run Germany since the Second World War, largely the CDU, the Christian Democratic Union,
Which has been the party of government, in effect, almost like the Tories in England.
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