With a federal election looming, far-right party Alternative for Germany is running second in the polls. Here's how it got ...

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new ...

In 1952, the Socialist Reich Party, an heir to the Nazi party, was banned and the Communist Party of Germany was prohibited in 1956. Then in 2017, the court examined whether to ban the neo-Nazi ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early ...

East Germany’s leadership had already sealed off the country ... Egon Krenz, who had just assumed power weeks, purged much of ...

Ikea was among many companies that profited from forced labor in prisons under the former East German dictatorship. Its ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

The pair were elected by members of the post-communist party at a national ... was still "the force of solidarity" in Germany ...

In recent years, however, the Chinese Communist Party’s instructions to its citizens – and ... On this subject, it is amusing ...

Remember, 26% of Communist Party members are women ... Women make up 26% of Angela Merkel's CDU party in Germany, and around 30% of Theresa May's Conservatives in the UK. Meanwhile, a survey ...