Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of Bavaria's populist Free Voters' party, has been caught up in an anti-Semitism controversy this week, sparking a storm in German media. Here's what to know about the right-wing politician and what he's accused of.
Germany's official in charge of fighting anti-Semitism called Saturday for Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters to be held
accountable after the singer donned a Nazi-style uniform at a Berlin concert.
Berlin police said Friday they were investigating Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters for incitement to hatred after he donned a Nazi-style uniform at a concert in the German capital.
German police staged a major deployment at a synagogue in the western city of Essen on Friday after several bullet holes were found in the adjacent former rabbi's residence.
KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a notification to German customers encouraging them to commemorate the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom with fried chicken and cheese.
Klaus Langhoff experienced World War II as a child, and found memories of the war flooding back when he went to Munich in 1972 as a handballer captaining East Germany at the Olympics.
Israel and Germany's presidents will jointly commemorate the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that left 11 Israeli athletes dead, after a last-minute compensation deal averted a feared boycott by bereaved relatives.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday voiced "disgust" at statements by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Berlin on the Holocaust, amid a growing outcry in Germany and Israel.
Break-ins and vandalism, accusations of racism and anti-Semitism and a giant compost heap: Documenta, one of the world's biggest art fairs, opens this week under a cloud of controversy.
In what was expected to be one of the last addresses by a Holocaust survivor to the German parliament, Inge Auerbacher appealed Thursday to keep alive the victims' memory.
The burial of a known neo-Nazi's ashes in the former grave of a Jewish musical scholar has sparked outrage in Germany, and prompted Berlin's anti-Semitism official to file a criminal complaint.
German prosecutors opened an investigation into employees at a hotel after a rock musician made accusations of anti-Semitism against them in a video posted on social media.
Union Berlin apologised Friday after fans hurled anti-Semitic insults at visiting supporters of Israeli champions Maccabi Haifa, the first club from Israel to play at the Nazi-era Olympic stadium.
German police on Thursday arrested four suspects, including a Syrian teenager, over a foiled attack at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, a plot officials said was likely Islamist motivated.
Germany on Friday said rockets fired by Hamas at Israel amount to "terrorist attacks" and warned it would not tolerate "anti-Semitic" demonstrations on its own soil as the conflict intensified in
the Middle East.
Holocaust survivor Charlotte Knobloch on
Wednesday called for a stronger defence of the country's "fragile" democracy
and issued a searing rebuke to the far right: "We will fight for our Germany".
A German court on Monday handed
down a life sentence to the assailant behind a deadly far-right attack last
year that nearly became the country's worst anti-Semitic atrocity since World
War II.
A man accused of killing two people
in an anti-Semitic attack in Germany last year was cut off during final
testimony at his trial on Wednesday after he denied the Holocaust.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday spoke of
her "shame" over rising anti-Semitism in Germany as the Jewish community
warned the coronavirus was acting as a "catalyst" stirring up anti-Jewish
hatred.
Right-wing extremists are “completely hijacking” protests against coronavirus restrictions, the deputy head of the police union in Germany has warned.
A German man goes on trial on
Tuesday for a deadly shooting targeting Jews in the eastern city of Halle last year, one of the worst acts of anti-Semitic violence in Germany's postwar history.
A court in central Germany on Tuesday rejected a case calling for a Wittenberg church associated with Protestant
firebrand Martin Luther to remove an ancient anti-Semitic carving from its wall.
