Younger German voters, in particular, flocked to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), helping power the party to historic results in a pair of eastern state elections on Sunday, according to exit polls. In both Thuringia and Saxony, voters between the ages of 18 and 29 overwhelmingly backed the AfD, which in both states has been branded a far-right extremist group by domestic intelligence agencies. The AfD on Sunday won 36% of younger voters backed in Thuringia and another 30% in Saxony, according to polling by the research firm Forschungsgruppe Wahlen. Overall, the AfD placed first in…