Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

Alexander Gauland, an AfD co-founder and former leader, has claimed that Germans should “have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars”. The AfD’s ...

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

The AfD was founded in 2013 by disaffected CDU members. This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, ...

Why does the AfD dismay so many Germans ... In 2018, the party leader at the time, Alexander Gauland, dismissed “Hitler and the Nazis” as “just a speck of bird shit in over 1,000 years ...

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments seats than before. Constitutional experts are worried.

The AfD has little chance of joining the government ... Honorary chairman Alexander Gauland has described the Nazis' genocide of Europe's Jews as a lone stain that could not disfigure the glorious ...

at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of Thuringia state elections in August 2024 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Alexander Gauland, an AfD co-founder and former leader, has claimed that Germans should ...