‘They call us Nazis’: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise

AfD candidate Maximilian Krah, centre, at a rally in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, last week. Photograph: Frank Bauer/the Observer

Soaring church spires, the 1,000-year-old town centre unblemished by second world war bombing or graffiti, snow-capped Alps in the middle distance – Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, can count many blessings.

Unemployment is in the low single digits, the Luftwaffe backed away from plans to move its training school for Eurofighter and Tornado jet technicians elsewhere and crime is at a historic low.