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German neo-Nazis

People demonstrate against the planned re-founding of the AfD youth organization in Giessen, Germany, early Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
November 29, 2025, 11:32 am
Thousands protest as Germany’s far-right AfD to launch new youth wing
Party hopes to exert greater control over new group after the previous youth party was declared a proven right-wing extremist group by authorities and dissolved
By Agencies
The Instagram page of MaKss Damage, a German rapper, is displayed for a photograph on a smartphone in London on October 28, 2025 (AFP)
October 29, 2025, 11:35 am
German neo-Nazi rappers push hate speech and antisemitism on TikTok, Instagram, Spotify
Songs promote hatred and conspiracy theories as part of ‘increasingly radical movement,’ experts say; some clips remain online despite breaching hate speech policies
By AFP and ToI Staff
Marla-Svenja Liebich (Reuters)
August 30, 2025, 10:27 am
German neo-Nazi shakes up trans debate after changing gender, being sent to women’s prison
Marla-Svenja Liebich, who claims to have converted to Judaism and until recently went by name of Sven, sentenced to 18 months for offenses including incitement to racial hatred
By AFP
Horst Mahler waits for his trial for incitement at the higher regional court in Munich, Germany, January 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache, file)
July 29, 2025, 1:36 am
Leading German antisemite who moved from left-wing terrorism to neo-Nazism dies at 89
Horst Mahler was once legal counsel for Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld before cofounding the anti-Israel Red Army Faction; he later turned to far-right extremism and Holocaust denial
By Toby Axelrod
Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington DC, November 13, 2024. (Allison Robbert/POOL/AFP)
December 20, 2024, 8:27 pm
Elon Musk endorses far-right German party after government’s collapse
Trump ally states that only the AfD, some of whose politicians have downplayed the Holocaust, ‘can save Germany’
By Ron Kampeas
An AfD election poster for the European elections reading 'Our country first' is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst), File)
December 3, 2024, 4:35 pm
Far-right German AfD says it will replace radical youth wing ahead of snap elections
Party’s neo-Nazi-linked Junge Alternative youth organization, classified as extremist by intelligence agencies, is set to be replaced, but critics say move is ‘smoke and mirrors’
By AFP
Ursula Haverbeck arrives in the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin, Germany, October 16, 2017. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
November 23, 2024, 3:29 am
Infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma’ dies at 96
Ursula Haverbeck dies while appealing sentence for false claims about Auschwitz, after spending years in prison for lying about Nazi genocide of Jews
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: A German police car in Berlin on January 24, 2020. (John Macdougall/AFP)
November 10, 2024, 8:55 am
German police arrest far-left militant over attacks on neo-Nazis in Germany, Hungary
Johann G., suspected of causing ‘severe bodily injuries,’ as well as property damage and forgery; believed part of ring in which four others were already jailed for assaults
By AFP
Screen capture from video of Untersberg Mountain, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 12:47 pm
German neo-Nazi falls to his death hiking on Hitler’s favorite mountain
Andreas Münzhuber, a treasurer of The Third Way group’s Bavaria branch, reportedly slipped and plunged to his death from the Untersberg
By ToI Staff
FILE - Bjoern Hoecke, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, waits for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the regional court in Halle, Germany, May 14, 2024 (Ronny Hartmann/Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 24, 2024, 1:10 pm
German far-right politician on trial again for alleged use of Nazi Stormtrooper slogan
Alternative for Germany’s Björn Höcke accused of knowingly using banned phrase; was fined in previous case, with judges ruling that the ex-history teacher knew its origin
By AP
Tourists visit the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 27, 2024, 3:56 pm
‘Never again is every day’: Scholz’s antisemitism warning on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Chancellor calls on citizens to remain vigilant against threats to democracy, says Germany will continue to carry the responsibility for Holocaust’s ‘crime against humanity’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A participant holds up a placard with the lettering 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it' during a demonstration against racism and far-right politics in front of the Siegestor (Victory Gate) memorial arch in Munich, southern Germany on January 21, 2024. (Photo by MICHAELA STACHE / AFP)
January 23, 2024, 4:12 pm
After German court defunds neo-Nazi party, far-right AfD could be next on the block
Homeland party verdict comes as the country grapples with the rising popularity of Alternative for Germany, the extremist political organization that’s second in the polls
By Sebastien ASH
Illustrative: Police patrol in Alsdorf, near Aachen, western Germany, November 17, 2015. (Hermann J. Knippertz/AP)
September 27, 2023, 3:46 pm
Germany bans far-right group that tried to indoctrinate children with Nazi ideology
Interior minister lauds ‘hard blow’ against extremism as police raid dozens of homes of Artgemeinschaft members, says organization spreads racist worldview under cover of religion
By AP
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser briefs the media after the cabinet meeting of the German government in Berlin, Germany, August 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
September 19, 2023, 1:08 pm
Germany bans prominent neo-Nazi group: ‘Clear signal against racism and antisemitism’
Authorities conduct raids in 10 German states targeting Hammerskins Germany, which propagates extremist views through music and has ties to a US skinhead organization
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A election campaign poster of far-right AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann remains at a street at the outskirts of the small city Sonneberg at the German federal state Thuringia, Wednesday, July 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 9, 2023, 3:54 am
German county stands by election of far-right candidate for 1st time since Nazi era
Sonneberg sees jump in support for AfD party amid frustration over an economy still plagued by pandemic and influx of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in Germany
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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