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Germany

Far-right AfD surges to second place in German state election

Anti-immigrant populists beat Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) to second place in an election in the east German state of Thuringia, building spectacularly on their steady momentum since first entering the Bundestag.

German lawmakers meet Iranian Holocaust denier

Three members of the German Bundestag met last week with Ali Larijani, an Iranian Holocaust denier who defends the obliteration of Israel.

German authorities to expand crackdown on far-right extremists

Violent right-wing extremists pose a growing threat to German democracy, security officials said, announcing a package of measures to crack down on groups spreading hate.

Former Nazi concentration camp guard to go on trial in Hamburg

Bruno Dey, 93, is accused of accessory in the murders of 5,230 prisoners between 1944 and 1945 in the Stutthof [Sztutowo] camp in what is now Poland.

Thousands protest in Berlin in wake of Halle shooting

Several thousand protesters gathered in central Berlin to show solidarity against antisemitism and right-wing violence after a terrorist attack left two dead in Halle.

Accused in attack on Jewish professor in Germany sentenced

A German man of Palestinian heritage, accused of having struck the kippa from the head of a Jewish professor from the US in an attack in Bonn, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison

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