Even though it is financed by loans, the costs will fall on the working class—in the form of wage cuts, social cuts, the ...

While Germany has long held far-right parties with a disdain not seen in its European neighbours, some Germans believe the time has come to break old taboos. And the AfD’s powerful transatlantic ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

A relevant study of the East German Stasi, 'The Spies Among Us' follows a former victim facing those who ran the surveillance ...

Banning political parties made Germany a one-party state and destroyed democracy in the country. This removed other parties as a source of opposition. 30 June 1934 Night of the Long Knives ...

The Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have launched a massive rearmament programme, aiming to ...

Evelyn Zupke, federal commissioner for victims of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) dictatorship -- which founded and ruled the former communist East Germany -- said Ikea's commitment to ...

four years after the end of dictatorship and war, Germans were once again able to elect a democratic parliament, but only in ...

Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

of Germany. He led the right-wing Nationalist ... which became more important than the Nazi Party in running the dictatorship. It discouraged potential opponents because they knew they would ...