Germany's far right feels triumphant, even without taking power after the election

It's the most amazing feeling. I've been here since its founding and to see it on 20% is amazing. We'll be kept out of coalition, but as you can see, the conservatives are taking all of our positions,

said Gilbert Kalb, an AfD member celebrating at the party's headquarters

Our hand remains outstretched to form a government,

she told supporters,

This should worry all of us, that a fifth of German voters have voted for a party that in at least some of its policies is far-right, and which in its language and ideology seeks clear links with the radical right and neo-Nazism ...,

he said