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It isn't "making history" if you do the exact same thing Nazis already tried.
Also Merz is such a smarmy ingrown toenail, Germany should be embarassed for electing an upper class hate clown who looks like Mr. Mackey from South Park.
The AfD will destroy Germany if Germany is seduced by their seductively simple and stupid narratives of hate. The rest of the world should be extremely wary of Germany as they rearm, it is a nation that uniquely and exceptionally can not be trusted when it comes to resisting fascism.
We have a party much like them here in Denmark, and they too reached a maximum popularity with around 25% of votes at one election.
But these idiots typically can't even walk straight, and soon there were so many scandals that their popularity fell through the floor.
But even with 25% of the vote, AfD can never take control of the country, because Germany is a democracy, so 25% of votes means 25% of the seats.
So to form a government they need support from other parties, and if they ever manage that, I bet when their policies become clear, and voting for them is no longer a protest vote, that they will decline to not be able to make government again. That's generally how it is with protest parties.
I mean, Hitler never got a majority with the NSDAP. I think he actually got like 30% of the vote or something, and became the biggest party, but far away from a majority.
The issue was that the centre-right parties were scared of the left-winged / communist parties, so they decided to cooperate with Hitler.
Basically, it's usually centre-right politicians that give rise to radical right politicians, and the radical right politicians don't need a majority, to get into power.
When a "centre-right" party chooses cooperation with totalitarianists, they are not centre-right, but enablers of the far-right. Keep in mind that the CDU/CSU is opportunistic: it has cooperated with AfD in at least one province. To me, that's evidence of some of their party members being empty shells, devoid of humanity.
Those who reject that path should reform CDU/CSU from inside to support busting large cooperations and giving back the narrative to the people, rather than to fragile authoritarianists. The true Christian democrats, will master that path, and if they are kicked out, well, then they must create a new CDU/CSU of their own!
All who choose fascism over communism, choose hatred and repression over liberation.
Hitler was very different circumstances, that are not comparable.