Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the first far-right political party to win a state election in Germany since World War II.

The political landscape in Germany is undergoing a seismic shift, as evidenced by the recent state election in Thuringia. For the first time since World War II, a far-right party has emerged ...

Friedrich Merz, the head of Germany's Christian Democrats, and Markus Soeder, the head of their Bavarian sister party, said ...

“The German party system is already more fractured than ever before and this will be exacerbated by the Wagenknecht party,” Thomas Biebricher, Professor for Political Science at the Goethe ...

A state election is taking place in Brandenburg three weeks after a far-right party made gains in two other states in eastern Germany ...

Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man's facial features with a ...

The former communist and rising political leader looks out at a ... exemplifies one of the most common critiques of the German electoral system: traditionally, small parties have had power hugely ...

A fatal knife attack in the west German city of Solingen has placed immigration and Islamist terrorism at the top of the political agenda ... of our welfare system and the loss of our identity ...

So the lack of jobs for men helps extremist political movements that appeal to angry men. In Germany, the AfD has much stronger support among men than women. Polls show a large advantage for Kamala ...

But the result is still a political ... in Germany illegally. In Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, AfD supporter Patrick Teichmann said he believes migrants "take advantage of our social system".