AfD Alternative for Germany

Illustrative: German leaders of the parliamentary group of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far-right party Alexander Gauland (bottom-R) and Alice Weidel (bottom-L) and MPs vote to adopt functioning rules during the first session of the newly elected parliament on October 24, 2017 at the Bundestag in Berlin. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

February 21, 2019, 10:57 pm

German far-right rebuked for reportedly suggesting women aren’t fit to be MPs

Deputy speaker of Bundestag calls on AfD to respect parliamentary protocol after party member says low number of female lawmakers due to ‘natural selection’

By AP

February 14, 2019, 10:16 pm

German spy agency said examining far-right’s ties to Russia

Report says intelligence officials are concerned that Moscow sees extreme nationalist groups as potential allies in destabilizing West

By Stuart Winer

A police officer in an entrance of an apartment building during a raid in the village Meldorf, Germany, January 30, 2019. (Karsten Schroeder/dpa via AP)

January 30, 2019, 2:17 pm

German police arrest 3 suspected of extremist bomb plot

Iraqi suspects ordered detonator, downloaded bomb-making instructions and tested explosive powder, authorities say

By David Rising and Frank Jordans

People mourn on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, January 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

January 25, 2019, 6:11 pm

Buchenwald memorial bans German far-right AfD from Holocaust ceremony

AfD not welcome until they ‘credibly distance themselves from the anti-democratic, anti-human rights, and historical revisionist positions’ of their party

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)

January 24, 2019, 9:38 pm

German Jewish leader ‘threatened’ after criticizing far-right AfD

In speech on Holocaust victims, Charlotte Knobloch called party a threat to democracy, sparking torrent of ‘threats and insults’

By AFP

More than a dozen lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany walked out of Bavarian state parliament during a tribute to Holocaust victims at the Bavarian Parliament in Munich, Germany, January 23, 2019. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)

January 23, 2019, 10:37 pm

German far-right lawmakers walk out of speech by Holocaust survivor

AfD members’ protest in Bavaria comes as Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, accuses the party of downplaying Nazi crimes

By David Rising

January 15, 2019, 4:38 pm

German spy agency to step up scrutiny of far-right party

Local media says Alternative for Germany suspected of ‘flirting with extremism’; its youth wing could be placed under limited covert surveillance

By Frank Jordans

January 12, 2019, 1:09 am

German far-right leader forms new party with a Nazi symbol

Breaking away from AfD for its ‘shift to the left,’ Andre Poggenburg chooses as new logo a blue cornflower — used among Nazi sympathizers in 1930s Austria to identify each other

By AP and TOI staff

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth, in 'Schindler's List.' (Screenshot, YouTube)

January 6, 2019, 11:45 pm

German theater offers free ‘Schindler’s List’ tickets to far-right party members

AfD slams offer as ‘senseless provocation’; classic film to be re-released on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27

By Marcy Oster

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 movie 'Schindler's List' (Screen capture)

From the WebJanuary 5, 2019, 8:22 am

German far-right bristles at free invite to Schindler’s List screening

Members of AfD accuse theater that made offer of ‘provocation’ and ‘tasteless instrumentalization’ of the film, the NY Times reports

German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel closes her eyes during a press conference at the CDU headquarters on October 29, 2018 in Berlin. Merkel announced she will not stand again as leader of her centre-right CDU, which she has chaired the CDU for 18 years, and will step down as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

January 4, 2019, 7:03 pm

Massive data leak targets German officials including Merkel

Merkel’s data shows two email addresses used by the chancellor, a fax number and letters apparently written by her and to her; far-right AfD not affected

By Deborah Cole

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's Secretary General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer waves on stage after she was elected as party's leader during the CDU congress on December 7, 2018 at a fair hall in Hamburg, northern Germany. (John MacDougall/AFP)

December 7, 2018, 7:07 pm

Merkel loyalist wins German party leadership battle

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will head the Christian Democratic Union, making it likely Merkel will be able to see out her fourth term until 2021

By Deborah Cole

German policewomen fence off an area on April 20, 2018, as part of the security measures ahead of the "Schild und Schwert" (Shield and Sword, or SS) neo-nazi festival, in the small eastern German town of Ostritz. ( AFP PHOTO/John MACDOUGALL)

December 2, 2018, 4:03 pm

German police shut down concert over illegal Nazi chants

Authorities say officers intervened after audience from ‘the right-wing scene’ began shouting ‘Sieg Heil’

By AFP

Demonstrators hold flags of Germany 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 PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL

December 1, 2018, 6:30 am

German far-right AfD in trouble as end of Merkel era looms

Party stagnating in polls, facing charges of accepting illegal campaign funds from a non-EU donor in Switzerland

By Mathieu FOULKES

(L-R) Former German president Christian Wulff, former German president Joachim Gauck, former German president Horst Koehler, the current president of the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) Daniel Guenther, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster and Wolfgang Schaeuble, president of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament), arrive to attend a ceremony at the Synagogue Rykestrasse in Berlin on November 9, 2018 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom. (John MacDougall/AFP)

November 9, 2018, 10:38 pm

German Jews denounce far-right party at Kristallnacht memorial

Anti-immigrant AfD excluded from commemoration for 1938 Nazi pogrom; Jewish leader says rise in xenophobic attacks ‘shameful for our country’

By JTA