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The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right
Björn Höcke, a former history teacher who has become arguably Germany’s most successful far-right politician since the second world war, has the sort of piercing, deep-set eyes that, depending on your perspective, can either give you the impression that he …