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Right-wing extremists are making use of premises with addresses largely in the states that made up formerly communist East Germany, the Interior Ministry in Saxony-Anhalt reported on Monday. The information, drawn from reports by the domestic intelligence agencies in 2022, found that 61% of the premises used by right-wing extremists lay in Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin. Precisely those states, with the exception of West Berlin, went to make up the German Democratic Republic, generally known as East Germany up to 1990. The number of premises re…