Residents tearfully embraced each
other and laid flowers Thursday in the German city of Hanau after a gunman with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe.
German police said they were investigating after a man dressed as Adolf Hitler rode around a weekend festival in a motorbike sidecar, although he provoked more amusement than outrage.
Katja Wolf, mayor of the town of Eisenach in the central German state of Thuringia, has been sued by a member of her city council for refusing to shake his hand.
Counselling centres for victims of far-right violence reported an increase in crime in the five eastern German states and Berlin last year, new figures show.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)'s chief candidate for European elections, Jörg Meuthen, expects big gains for nationalist parties but thinks they will have trouble forming a united front to advance an agenda.
The number of members of the so-called “Reichsbürger” movement has risen to 15,600 in January this year, according to a media report published on Friday.
Interior ministers of the federal and state governments are debating a motion to examine the allegedly right-wing extremist “prepper scene”, according to a media report on Thursday.
A German far-right militant
belonging to the shadowy "Citizens of the Reich" movement was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing a policeman during a dawn raid on his house.
Concerns about far-right violence have prompted the northern German city of Rostock to stop construction plans for a new asylum home meant for families.
German President Joachim Gauck was confronted by some aggressive right-wing extremists during an official weekend visit to Saxony, including one man carrying a knife.
The manager of a Bavarian beer hall has cancelled an event where AfD leader Frauke Petry was set to speak, saying he won't tolerate the "right-wing mindset".
The ex-head of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) said that the party he founded has become ‘unbearable’, after its new leader advocated using firearms against refugees at the border.
More than 60 police officers and several demonstrators were injured in clashes in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday as far-left protesters rallied against a neo-Nazi demonstation, police said.
A journalist for Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel said on Facebook he was tracked down and physically attacked on the street by right wing thugs in Berlin on Friday after writing a column about xenophobia.
The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) warned on Tuesday that his own party has the potential to turn into a German version of the National Front, France's far-right political party.
Two football fans hurled abuse at Bernd Lucke, the leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, as he tried to eat dinner with his wife on a train from Berlin to Cologne on Saturday.
Exactly two years on from founding the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an anti-Euro party, leader Bernd Lucke is struggling to ward off the rise of right-wing populism inside the party.
The controversial former leader of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party has made a new life for himself by opening a pub on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca with his wife, a local paper reported on Wednesday.
The number two figure in Germany's far-right party stepped down on Sunday after being photographed with a phallic-shaped cake, and recruiting a former porn star who was sacked from the party for having sex with a black man.
Almost one third of officials within the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) have been convicted of crimes or are being investigated in connection with criminal activities. The figures were released as the party's leader stepped down.
