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The article analyzes the origin and the entry into the Bundestag of the right-wing populist party AfD, as compared to other right-wing parties in postwar Germany. It presents the party’s program and internal divisions and shows change in the electorate of the extreme right. This electorate is not a margin any longer, but comes “from the very center” of society. The AfD’s profile in public is analyzed as well as its electoral campaign in which problems of immigration were dominating. At the end some political consequences of the presence of the first parliamentary group of a right-wing populist party in the Bundestag are discussed and some questions for further research formulated.