Thousands of people took to the streets in the southern German city of Freiburg on Monday to demonstrate against the Alternative for Germany (AfD), as protests continue against a shift to the right less than two weeks before the elections.

The hardline part has ‘an increasing influence on public opinion’, say analysts, as voters prioritise migration.

More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor demonstrated against Germany's far right on Saturday. Albrecht Weinberg was those protesting in the north-western town of Leer, one week after a motion on migration reforms passed in the lower house of the German parliament with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).