John Foster / 26 Nov 2021
Germany of the Future
Replacing Angela Merkel
Sixteen years of leadership by any party is too long. Particularly for a country half of which is still new to democracy, like Germany.(...)
AfD
Duncan Simpson / 08 Sep 2021
Ideological Upheaval
Pandemic Rebels and Fascist Longings
Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, opposition to anti-contagion efforts has been led by a small number of fringe groups and quasi-movements linked together by social media.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 07 Jul 2021
German Anti-Anti-Semitism
The Czars for Jewish Life Problem
What do Germans mean when they speak of “fighting Antisemitism”? (...)
John Foster / 24 Feb 2020
Revenge on Germany
Miriam Gebhardt’s Crimes Unspoken
The rape of hundreds of thousands of German women in the waning days of the Second World War has historically gotten short shrift, both as crime and tragedy. (...)
Joe Keady / 12 Feb 2020
German Democracy in Crisis
Alternative für Deutschland in Thuringia
Given the extent of the far-right resurgence in Europe over the last decade, it's often difficult to predict where the shock waves are going to come next. On 5 February, it was Thuringia's turn. (...)
Joe Keady / 08 Nov 2019
Boosted by Violence
Alternative für Deutschland Digs In
The 27 October election in Thuringia was marred by death threats by far-right groups against candidates across Germany's political spectrum. Nearly two weeks later, the threats continue.(...)
Joe Keady / 24 Oct 2019
Death Threat Politics
German Fascists Take Aim
Voters in the German state of Thuringia are set to elect a new state parliament on Sunday. The electoral season has been marred by a rash of death threats against leading candidates. (...)
Joe Keady / 15 Jul 2019
Killed by Fascism
The Murder of Walter Lübcke
The body of Walter Lübcke, a prominent German regional politician noted for his vocal support for immigration, was found outside his own house late on the night of 2 June with a bullet in his head.(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 29 Apr 2019
Pinkwashing Fascism
Alternative für Deutschland and the Gay Right
In 1934, in the infamous Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler ordered the liquidation of the entire leadership of the paramilitary SA, led by Hitler’s one-time second-in-command Ernst Röhm.(...)
Joel Schalit / 01 Feb 2019
Remembering Fascism in Germany
Everyone Owns the Shoah
I hate commemorating the Holocaust. Born to WWII generation Israeli-American parents in 1967, the Shoah, as we call it in Hebrew, has always been the cornerstone around which we defined our Jewishness and our politics.(...)