The President of the Thuringian state branch of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, Stefan Kramer, has warned against underestimating the danger of right-wing extremist slogans and anti-Semitic statements by politicians from German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). “We should finally put aside our false shyness to take seriously what exposed extremists and dictators write or say,” he told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper in remarks published on Saturday. “History has proven many times that they mean what they say and write and that they act accordingly when they get the opp…