Though the battle to remove Trump from office is over, the war on truth is still being waged on other fronts, with Germany the hub of QAnon fantasists outside the Anglosphere.
Now, as the pandemic flushes a patchwork of self-styled ‘lateral thinkers’ from behind their screens and onto the streets and far-right activists weaponise the country’s oddballs and malcontents, what has been unspeakable here since 1945 has found an alarming new voice.