Refugees, though unseen, dominate German state election rallies

There's barely a refugee to be seen on the streets of northeastern Germany, but in campaigning for Sunday's regional election they feature everywhere -- particularly at rallies of the populist, anti-migrant AfD party. "If we want to feel like we're still in Germany, we need to send a stop signal," cried an AfD candidate, Lars Loewe, on the campaign stump at Wismar, a Baltic coast town of 42,000 inhabitants. The arrival of around a million asylum seekers in the country in 2015 has had a profound impact on Germany's political and social landscape.