The state of emergency declared due to the forest fire in the German state of Thuringia was lifted on Tuesday. However, ...

SUHL, Germany—Ten years ago, this town in central Germany was aging, rapidly depopulating and almost universally white. Today, its population has stabilized, is younger and includes people from ...

Meteorologists had been expecting another heatwave to materialise in Germany in the coming days, but a shift in the weather ...

Explore the rise of racism and the AfD party in Germany, and the impact on Black Germans and African migrants in Thuringia.

Björn Höcke, of German far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust.

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 Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

The far-right AfD came in first in state elections in Thuringia and a close second in Saxony, so building a coalition government without it will be difficult.

The AfD’s success was also condemned by Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Björn Höcke celebrates as he leaves an AfD election party in Thuringia.

The SPD is on track to win just 6-7% of the vote in Saxony and Thuringia, a poor performance for what has long been one of Germany's two big-tent parties.