BERLIN, Germany — The new youth wing of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has clear “continuity” with its defunct predecessor, which was classified as right-wing extremist, the interior ministry said Tuesday.

The AfD last March disbanded its previous youth organization, the Young Alternative (JA), and in November founded its successor body, called Generation Germany (GD).

Speeches at the GD founding conference reflected hostility against the “free democratic order” and a racial and ethnocentric “understanding of the nation,” the ministry said in a reply to an inquiry from a Greens party MP obtained by AFP.

“There are known links between members of Generation Germany and other extremist organizations,” the ministry said........

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