Top German actors took a stance against right-wing extremism and the controversial Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Thursday as the Berlinale, Germany's international film festival, opened on Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin. At a protest organized by the film festival itself, filmakers such as Jella Haase and Katja Riemann shouted "Defend Democracy." They held cell phone lights in the air and the red carpet became quiet during the event. "By rejecting the AfD, the Berlinale has clearly p
The Identitarian Movement in Germany seemed to have ebbed. But now the right-wing extremists are making a comeback. They have close ties to the Alternative for Germany party and a notable financier who used to be an important member of the center-right Christian Democrats.
Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser plans to set up an "early detection unit" for foreign manipulation and influence campaigns as part of government efforts to fight right-wing extremism. The plan is part of a package of 13 measures which Faeser presented in Berlin on Tuesday together with the head of the domestic intelligence services, Thomas Haldenwang, and the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch. Most of the projects in the package had already been announced previous
There have been at least 23 arson attacks with a suspected anti-immigration motivation since 2018. Their frequency has escalated in the last three months