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 ...
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 ...
The AfD was founded in 2013 by disaffected CDU members. This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, and conservative journalists Konrad Adam and Alexander Gauland. It began ...
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.
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 ...