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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Kirsten Grieshaber

An AfD election poster for the European elections reading "our country first" is fixed on a pole in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
June 5, 2024, 12:41 pm
German far-right candidate wounded in stabbing amid series of political attacks
The incident, which reportedly began when the AfD member caught someone tearing down a campaign poster, comes amid a wave of attacks on both government and opposition politicians
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Germany's Maximilian Krah, of the German far-right Alternative for Germany party, grimaces during a session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/ Jean-Francois Badias, File)
May 22, 2024, 8:45 pm
Germany’s AfD bars candidate from EU campaigning after he defends some SS members
Unclear if far-right party’s top contender for European Parliament, Maximilian Krah, is still running, after he said not all members of the notorious Nazi unit were war criminals
By Kirsten Grieshaber
One of nine suspected participants in a coup plot wears handcuffs as he is brought to the courtroom to take the stand in the first set of proceedings in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on April 29, 2024. (Bernd Weißbrod/POOL/AFP)
April 29, 2024, 2:14 pm
9 on trial in Germany for terrorism over alleged far-right coup plot to revive Reich
17 others to face court at later date; defendants include former lawmaker, self-styled prince thought to be leader of group that professed ‘conglomerate of conspiracy theories’
By Kirsten Grieshaber
File: People gather to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party, and right-wing extremism in front of the parliament building in Berlin, Germany, January 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
March 18, 2024, 12:51 pm
Germany’s Nazi past comes back to haunt it, as far-right AfD surges in polls
Many believed that with education and laws, extreme nationalism would not return, but far-right party finds strong support among disillusioned in former communist east
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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
The November 1938 file photo shows a group of people standing outside a Jewish-owned shop in an unnamed German town, after Kristallnacht, when Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. (AP Photo, File)
November 9, 2023, 11:48 am
Holocaust survivor recalls Kristallnacht horrors in interactive VR project
Still residing in Munich, 91-year-old Charlotte Knobloch finds herself living through a new wave of hatred but says she won’t give up her trust in modern-day Germany
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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
Hubert Aiwanger, party leader of the Free Voters and Bavaria’s Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, speaks at a press conference in Munich, Germany on August 31, 2023. (Lennart Preiss/dpa via AP)
September 1, 2023, 3:07 am
German deputy governor rejects new charge of antisemitism from when he was in school
Hubert Aiwanger insists he didn’t write antisemitic flyer and doesn’t remember giving Nazi salute when he was a teen, as pressure against him mounts
By Kirsten Grieshaber
A man with a Polish flag places flowers after a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the Nazi-German invasion of Poland and the beginning of WWII, 75-years ago, at the memorial to Polish soldiers in Berlin, September 1, 2014. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
August 29, 2023, 3:18 pm
Germany presents plans for joint house to commemorate Polish victims of World War II
Planned memorial in Berlin to mark violent deaths of more than 5 million of Poland’s citizens, including some 3 million Jews
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Teachers Laura Nickel (right) and Max Teske pose for a photograph after an interview with The Associated Press in Cottbus, Germany, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 26, 2023, 6:01 pm
Teachers in Germany forced to leave town after denouncing Nazi, far-right students
Two educators say their efforts to counter extremist ideologies at school met backlash from parents and lack of support from staff
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
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, July 5, 2023 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 8, 2023, 1:20 pm
‘We’ve seen this before’: Growing fears after German county elects far-right leader
After win last month by member of ‘proven right-wing extremist’ AfD branch, Jewish head of Thuringia domestic intelligence agency says will emigrate if party joins state gov’t
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal poses on the balcony of the curved building of the new Jewish educational and cultural complex in Berlin, Germany, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
June 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Germany’s biggest Jewish educational, cultural center since Holocaust opens in Berlin
Pears Jewish Campus will host 550 students in Chabad schools, along with movie theater, music studio, library, kosher deli and huge indoor basketball court and gym
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Politicians of Austria's Social Democratic Party (SPOe) and Greens carry a banner with "Regenbogenparade" (Pride Parade) at Ringstrasse in Vienna, Austria, on June 17, 2023. (Alex HALADA/AFP)
June 18, 2023, 4:04 pm
Austria claims to foil attack by alleged IS sympathizers on Vienna Pride Parade
Three suspects radicalized online nabbed by authorities before Saturday’s festivities, which attracted around 300,000 people
By Kirsten Grieshaber
This undated image, provided by the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, shows the 1907 painting 'The Colorful Life' by Russian artist Kandinsky. (Lenbachhaus Museum via AP)
June 14, 2023, 9:40 am
German commission backs restoring painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs
Kandinsky’s ‘The Colorful Life’ was loaned by Lewenstein family to Stedelijk Museum, but put up for auction shortly after Nazi occupation of Netherlands
By Kirsten Grieshaber
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