Explore the rise of racism and the AfD party in Germany, and the impact on Black Germans and African migrants in Thuringia. ... “People are mostly afraid of what and who they don’t know.

Two major wildfires have been burning in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. Meanwhile, several people were ...

In Thuringia, 38% of people aged between 18-24 gave their vote to the far-right party — compared to 33% overall, according to public broadcaster ARD's Tagesschau election analysis.

The far-right AfD party has doubled its share of votes in state elections in eastern Germany’s Thuringia, led by controversial figure Björn Höcke.

Experts say that specifically in Thuringia, radical far-right forces have created an environment that’s hostile toward minorities, including Black people. Now, with the rise of the far-right ...

In the early 1930s, Thuringia was one of the first power bases of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party. Nowadays, the AfD appeals especially to people in the formerly communist and less ...

Thuringia played a major role in World War II Germany. The Buchenwald concentration camp, where 56,000 people were killed, was 12 miles east of the state capital, Erfurt.It was home to the ...

Update: According to preliminary results, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party won the largest portion of the vote in Thuringia’s Sept. 1, 2024, state election — the first such victory ...

Nearly half the people who voted in Thuringia supported either the AfD or the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which also called for tighter asylum policies and won 15.8% of votes.

Newly founded left-wing party, the Sarah Wagenknecht alliance – or BSW – looks to be coming in third in both Thuringia and Saxony, where roughly 1.7 million people and 3.3 million were ...