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The opera in Nuremberg is in need of a new home while the current opera house is renovated. But the decision to temporarily relocate to a Nazi courtyard has sparked controversy.
The eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt is about to go to the polls — with the Alternative for Germany taking the lead in some opinion polls. A far-right victory would be a nightmare for Germany's political mainstream.
Germany's far-right AfD set to slide further right What's going on in eastern Germany? The situation is baffling for many in Germany: The AfD is hampered by a divided leadership, no longer has a major news-dominating issue to galvanize its base as it did with the 2016 refugee crisis, and has shifted so far to the right that it has recently drawn the attention of domestic intelligence agencies charged with keeping tabs on political extremists. Though those factors have conspired to see the AfD's support shrink in western Germany, the party has established itself as an ...
The German far-right party Alternative for Germany has chosen two staunch anti-immigrant hard-liners to lead it into this year's general election. This is a heavy defeat for the more moderate wing of the party.
German lawmaker confronts online hate speech, death threats From abuse on the web to attacks on the SPD office in Wuppertal, threats of death and mutilation are a regular experience for the parliamentarian and anti-racism campaigner Helge Lindh. But giving up is not an option. "I don't want to be a victim because of my role; I make no concessions to hate and fear," Lindh says Helge Lindh has vowed not to back down against hate speech online, but he can't even remember when he received the first death threat. Was it September 2018? Or October? At the time, Lindh had fished a letter out of his...