Today, Mercedes-AMG stands proudly as the fully integrated, high-performance crown jewel of Mercedes-Benz AG. From its sprawling headquarters in Affalterbach, the division churns out thousands of twin-turbocharged V8s, high-output hybrids, and blistering electric vehicles on an industrial scale. However, the history of AMG was not always so corporate. Decades before…
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BERLIN — Until this month, a far-right, openly ethnonationalist party had never come so close to winning an absolute majority in an election in the Federal Republic of Germany. Now that it has, and with similarly pro-Russian forces on the rise in France, all Europeans must prepare for the worst.…