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What recent leaks reveal about the AfD... and Die Linke

Two embarrassing leaks hit the press this month. Which one is the real scandal?

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Jörg Luyken
Oct 31, 2026
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Dear Reader,

On two occasions over the past fortnight, information from inside a political party has leaked into the public domain against the party’s wishes. Both are revealing, but for different reasons.

First, we had the leak of more than 400,000 emails from the AfD’s email server, covering a period stretching back a decade. The server was hacked by pr…

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