More people than ever are turning to Germany's Anti-Discrimination Agency, new figures show. The number of reports of discrimination rose to 13,067 in 2025 – around 15 percent more than the previous year.
After three years of research, Germany’s largest-ever study into institutional racism found that there was 'not a single authority free of racist discrimination'. Researchers involved have accused the Interior Ministry of burying the findings.
Proving that racism plays a part in whether people are offered rental apartments or houses in Germany is notoriously difficult, but a recent and comprehensive analysis appears to put the matter beyond doubt.
More complaints about discrimination were recorded last year than ever before, according to a recent report by Germany's anti-discrimination Agency, with many involving racism.
Mass demonstrations were held in the German city of Oldenburg to criticise racism in the police force and demand a thorough investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man.
This slang word has been named Germany's 'non-word' or 'ugliest word' of the year for 2024, with judges slamming the phrase as thoughtless and discriminatory.
After a video clip of people chanting Nazi slogans on the German island of Sylt went viral, many are waiting to see what consequences the perpetrators will face. The Local takes a look at how German law handles cases of hate speech.
A short video of young people singing racist lyrics on the German holiday island of Sylt while celebrating has gone viral, sparking concern and calls for action against those involved.
Muslims face rampant discrimination in German
society warranting concerted action to combat hate and bias, an independent
commission assigned by the government said in findings released Thursday.
A 21-year-old German man was found guilty on Monday of attempting to form a neo-Nazi terrorist group inspired by the US-based Atomwaffen Division and planning attacks with guns and explosives.
Three years after nine people were killed in a racist shooting in the city of Hanau, Germany’s Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Ferda Ataman, has said she sees “dangerous racist tendencies” in Germany.
Following NYE celebrations that saw a death, fireworks-related hospitalisations, and dozens of arrests after revellers attacked emergency services, some conservative politicians have started blaming migration groups for the chaos.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday warned of new extremist threats to German society as he marked 30 years since the country's worst post-war racist violence.
A German court on Friday sentenced a former soldier to five and a half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee.
The co-leader of Germany's anti-immigrant AfD party, Joerg Meuthen, announced Friday he was quitting the party, accusing it of drifting too far to the right and displaying "totalitarian" leanings.
In the Afrocensus, a first-of-its-kind survey charting the lived experiences of black people in Germany, the vast majority revealed they experienced 'extensive' discrimination in almost all aspects of public life.
The Frankfurt book fair, the world's largest publishing trade event, faced a growing controversy on Friday after several authors cancelled their appearances in protest at the presence of a far-right publisher.
The number of crimes committed by right-wing extremists in post-war Germany jumped to its highest level ever recorded in 2020, according to official figures released on Tuesday.
A black ballet dancer has been awarded €16,000 in compensation and the renewal of her contract at the
Berlin State Ballet in an out-of-court settlement over allegations of racism.
Germany on Friday marks a year since nine
people were killed in a racist shooting in the city of Hanau, an assault that
has fuelled fears of far-right terror in the country.
