New data requested by the left-wing populist BSW party shows around 3.2 million pensioners in Germany are at risk of poverty. Sahra Wagenknecht's party, only formed this year, frequently campaigns ...

More and more households in Germany are affected by poverty. One of the main reasons for this is the rapid rise in rents. According to a study by the Paritätischer Welfare Association ...

Due to high rents and related housing costs, more people in Germany are living in poverty than previously assumed, a study published on 13 December showed. Christian Charisius/dpa Due to high ...

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, in 1933 there were 4,108 Jews living in Dortmund, which had a total population of 540,000. The city, in Germany’s Ruhr region, was known for its coal and ...

“The RKI currently considers the risk to the health of the general population in Germany to be low,” the institute said, adding it was monitoring the situation closely and would adapt its ...

In 2023, 11% of Germany’s population lived in overcrowded dwellings. This means that the household had too few rooms compared to the number of inhabitants. In the EU, the average was significantly ...

The poverty in Germany at the end of the war made many people believe that communism would make Germany a fairer country, leading to some support for the Spartacists and the Spartacist Uprising.