The far-right in Germany (German: rechtsextrem) slowly reorganised itself after the fall of Nazi Germany and the dissolution of the Nazi Party in 1945. Denazification was carried out in Germany from 1945 to 1949 by the Allied forces of World War …

Jan 25, 2025 · BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of Germans on Saturday protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of the Feb. 23 general election. At Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, a huge crowd blew whistles, sang anti-fascist songs and carried banners denouncing AfD.

Sep 1, 2024 · Germany’s far right claimed its biggest electoral success since World War II, winning a regional vote in the east of the country Sunday, according to the preliminary result.

May 8, 2024 · Stephan Kramer sees the party as the "parliamentarian arm" of the new right that's building momentum across Europe - and even claims it poses a risk to democracy.

Sep 2, 2024 · BERLIN — Voters in two states in eastern Germany have delivered a far-right party its best result since World War II. The outcome of Sunday's elections in the states of Thüringen and Saxony...

Sep 2, 2024 · The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with...

Mar 12, 2024 · Cordula, a member of the Grandmas Against the Right, warns about the dangers of the far right at a September counterprotest in Oranienburg, Germany. Li Zhou/Vox

Feb 13, 2024 · Intelligence services say that more than 38,000 people in Germany are known to be right-wing extremists, and that around 14,000 are defined as potentially violent.

Jan 29, 2024 · Since the AfD first rose to prominence, pundits have sought to explain the rise of a far-right party (that some compare to neo-Nazis) in the land that Adolf Hitler once ruled.

Sep 2, 2024 · Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling center-left coalition.