BERLIN — When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany’s far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her country could be stopped. Thonke, 59, had been following the rise of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, with unease. But … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BERLIN — Demonstrations against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party swept across the country this weekend, strengthening calls to ban the party, following a report that its members had discussed plans for mass deportations. After months of surging popularity of the AfD, the report appears to … Read more
BERLIN — Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people came together Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in 1938 in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, spoke at … Read more