When the Christian Democratic Union won the German parliamentary elections in February, it was far from a reassuring victory. The Alternative for Germany, the nation’s most prominent right-wing ...

With the rapid advance of Germany’s extreme right and adjacent neo-Nazis, a serious challenge for Germany’s trade unions – organized within Germany’s peak body, the DGB – has emerged. The outlook for ...

Meanwhile, the term “blue elephant” focuses – wrongly – on the AfD’s self-invented, deceptive color-coding of “blue” rather than the traditional brown of Nazism (the brown shirts of Hitler’s SA).

The elections in Germany held last Sunday, Sept. 24, resulted in victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who won a fourth term in power, but also for the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

In the 1930s, American Nazis looked to Berlin for inspiration. The German-American Bund held torchlit rallies in New York, slandered Jews, preached white supremacy, and sent their children to Hitler ...