In a discovery that challenges our understanding of human history, scientists have successfully decoded the oldest DNA ever ...

First, they got left behind when they merged with west Germany in 1990 after Soviet Union’s collapse—enduring unemployment, ...

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is changing the face of my home country in ways that seemed ...

The first far-Right victory in German state elections since the Second World War was described as a “bitter” blow by ...

In Saxony, home of the city of Leipzig, it came in a close ... They were scattered throughout the former East Germany (and some parts of the former West Germany) and ruled by right-wing youth ...

When news broke that a jumbo jet full of hardened criminals had taken off from Leipzig ... Germany has never completely broken off contact with Kabul. Afghanistan’s embassy in the leafy west ...

When Quentin Tarantino chose the small eastern German town of Sebnitz for a scene in his Inglourious Basterds, he was likely ...

Interview with Angelo Bolaffi, philosopher and political scientist, a great expert on Germany. The origins of the electoral success of the pro-Nazis of AfD which however cannot be projected at a ...

The entire country is ageing, but in much of east Germany outside cities like Leipzig and Jena the situation is essentially irredeemable. The east-to-west exodus after reunification of some 3.9m ...

As the far-right populist party AfD gains popularity in eastern Germany, a cultural war looms. Are theaters, museums and youth clubs under threat?

Is the AfD a fascist party? Björn Höcke, its boss in Thuringia, one of its three best-known national leaders and its main ...