> no-go areas for anyone remotely non-white

Yeah sorry but this is bullshit (but unfortunately matching exactly the clichee of the arrogant and ignorant "Wessi"). There's plenty of "non-white" (as you call them) refugees living a normal life in Saxony, also in the villages in bumfuck-nowhere (not to downplay the far-right and neonazi problem though, but East Germany isn't that far behind West Germany, take a slice from West Germany with the same demographic composition as East Germany and you'll get the same percentage of AfD voters). Getting industry back into East Germany is exactly the right thing to do, more and better local jobs means less 'brain drain' into West Germany and with this, less AfD support.