AfD

German intelligence flags rise in AfD's right-wing extremist potential

The AfD rejects the accusations that its views are extremist and has said the intelligence service's assessments are politically motivated.

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Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.
Board of the newly AfD's youth organisation pose at the founding of Alternative for Germany's (AfD) new youth organisation "Generation Deutschland" in Giessen, Germany, November 29, 2025.

AfD speaker gives Hitler-like speech at Generation Germany event

Some suspect Alexander Eichwald may have been pulling a stunt by delivering the controversial speech.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD, ELI LEON
Spain's King Felipe welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a ceremony at the Royal Palace, in Madrid, Spain, November 26, 2025.

Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing

The German president laid a wreath at a cemetery housing a mausoleum built in 1973 for hundreds of victims of the bombings.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

'Go to Auschwitz': Former German Jewish student president sent antisemitic death threats

The letter, which was shared with Post, begins with a note that reads "Oh Hanna, you are a very sweet Judensau, let's go to Auschwitz and have a party for a happy holocaust."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Split emerges in German far right; co-leader storms out of news conference

Frauke Petry, who was long considered the AfD's most recognizable face, said she would take up her seat but would not be part of AfD's parliamentary group.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017ByREUTERS
Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) reacts during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, September 25, 2017.