On the morning after the night before, all of Germany’s overseas ambassadors were in Berlin to talk about their country’s place in the world. The annual gathering could not have come at a more portentous time.

The Germany I have known for the past 40 years is at its greatest moment of crisis.

Everything it represents is being challenged by many of its own citizens, aided and abetted by malign foreign forces.

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Sunday’s elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt have changed everything.