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Stephan Brandner at a committee meeting in the German Bundestag in Berlin, November 13, 2019. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
November 15, 2019, 6:30 am
Far-right German lawmaker ousted from committee for comments deemed anti-Semitic
Stephan Brandner of AfD party removed from parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee for saying a singer received a ‘Judas award’ for taking a stand against his party
By Marcy Oster
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech in Munich, Germany, May 24, 2019. (Christof Stache/AFP)
November 5, 2019, 5:50 pm
Merkel: Discontent doesn’t confer a ‘right to hatred’
Amid far-right surge in former East German states, chancellor slams AfD politicians who stir dissatisfaction by claiming situation hasn’t improved since communism
By AP
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)
October 28, 2019, 12:58 pm
Jewish groups voice fear over German far-right surge
Munich community leader, a Holocaust survivor, says booming support for AfD shows political system ‘has gone off the rails’
By AFP
Bjoern Hoecke, top co-candiate for Thuringian state elections of the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, reacts to the first forecasts of the results of the state elections in Thuringia, at the federal state parliament in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 27, 2019. (Christof Stache / various sources / AFP)
October 27, 2019, 8:49 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD more than doubles its power in eastern heartland vote
Party candidate Bjoern Hoecke, an extremist who called Berlin Holocaust memorial a ‘monument of shame,’ comes second to far-left Ramelow, beats Merkel’s party
By Julien GATHELIER and Frank Zeller
Different election campaign posters are fixed in a street in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 24, 2019. (Christof STACHE / AFP)
October 27, 2019, 6:02 am
Far-right AfD looks for gains in Germany despite synagogue attack
Hardliner Bjoern Hoecke running neck and neck with CDU candidate in Thuringia vote, seen as key test of mood in east German heartland following Yom Kippur assault
By AFP
Two women light candles among others and flowers next to the entrance of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019 two days after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue in Halle. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
October 24, 2019, 7:48 am
Germany’s far-right party faces electoral test after synagogue shooting
Polls suggest AfD support has slipped in the wake of the Halle attack, which has fueled concern over growing right-wing threats
By Manuel WALTZ and Michelle Fitzpatrick
Demonstrators crowd around a water cannon of the police during a protest organised by the right-wing populist 'Pro Chemnitz' movement, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the anti-Islam Pegida movement, on September 1, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany. (AFP/John MacDougall)
October 11, 2019, 4:51 pm
Far-right AfD party under pressure after German synagogue attack
Critics says opposition party has brought anti-Semitism, xenophobia back into mainstream politics; Alternative for Germany accuses opponents of exploiting incident to defame it
By Deborah Cole
Stephan Balliet (Screengrab)
October 11, 2019, 4:18 pm
German suspect in synagogue attack isolated loner, unknown in hometown
A ‘lost’ college dropout with few job prospects, Stephan Balliet made no contact with his neighbors or fellow village residents, spending his days on the computer
By David Courbet
Chairman of right-wing party Alternative for Germany, AfD, Joerg Meuthen, second from right, top candidate Joerg Urban, center, top candidate for the Saxony state elections and board member Beatrix von Storch, left, react after first election results announced in Dresden, Germany, September 1, 2019. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
September 1, 2019, 9:12 pm
Far-right seen gaining but not winning in 2 German states
AfD party surges in local elections in Brandenburg, Saxony, but exit polls forecast that it won’t overtake larger mainstream parties
By Geir Moulson
In this Aug. 15, 2019 photo, a crowd of people attend an election campaign rally of German Alternative for Germany, AfD, party for the Saxony state elections in Bautzen, Germany (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 1, 2019, 2:12 pm
Far-right surge expected in east German state elections
Euroskeptic, anti-immigration AfD’s gains in former Communist areas could destabilize Angela Merkel’s fragile coalition with Social Democrats
By Frank Zeller
This photo from August 4, 2019 shows Andreas Kalbitz, chairman of the AfD party in Brandenburg, in Cottbus, Germany. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP)
August 31, 2019, 12:41 pm
German far-right candidate attended neo-Nazi rally in Greece
AfD member Andreas Kalbitz acknowledges being at 2007 event but denies he was there with extremist delegation that hung up swastika flag
By AP
People hold flags during a demonstration by Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) on May Day in Erfurt, central Germany, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
August 28, 2019, 5:19 pm
German far-right party ousts regional leader for membership in extremist group
AfD’s Doris Von Sayn-Wittgenstein under fire for ties to society founded by ‘Nazi grandma’ Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel
By TOI staff and Agencies
Visitors are seen through an iron gate carrying the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free) at the former concentration camp in Oranienburg, eastern Germany on August 7, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
August 26, 2019, 9:29 am
Far-right surge in Germany rattles guardians of Nazi-era remembrance
Guide at former concentration camp warns AfD politicians are ‘playing with fire’ by challenging country’s culture of reckoning with its past
By Deborah Cole
Protesters take part in a demonstration titled "Unteilbar" (indivisible) against exclusion on August 24, 2019 in Dresden, eastern Germany. (John MACDOUGALL/AFP)
August 24, 2019, 7:00 pm
Thousands march against racism in Germany as far-right AfD surges in local polls
Demonstration takes place in heart of Dresden, which has also become cradle of Islamophobic movement Pegida and a stronghold for AfD
By Isabelle Le Page
People attend a far-right demonstration in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, September 7, 2018 (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
August 22, 2019, 8:57 pm
Syrian sentenced for deadly German knifing that sparked far-right protests
Alaa Sheikhi, 24, whose murder of Daniel Hillig on August 26, 2018, led to extremist rallies against Muslim immigration, gets 9.5 years in prison
By Andrea HENTSCHEL and Frank Zeller
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