After an intelligence-led operation, German police have arrested an alleged violent left-wing extremist leader in the eastern state of Thuringia.

After long exploratory talks, coalition negotiations to form new state governments will open in the eastern German states of ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...

The Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Erfurt, Thuringia has around 100 members, so their planned mosque is not particularly large ...

The political party that made gains in regional polls is labelled ‘right-wing extremist’ by Germany’s security services.

Germany’s hard-Right AfD party is seeking to buy a “haunted” castle that was once a Nazi training academy and turn it into a “patriotic centre”. A senior member of the Thuringia branch ...

In the charts below, we see that eastern Germany’s population is not only older on average than that of the west, but it has fallen significantly since reunification — from 16mn in 1990 to 12.6mn in ...

East Germany’s leadership had already sealed off the country ... divided between Bavaria and the eastern region of ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) said Wednesday it was throwing out three party members who were arrested on suspicion of having joined an extremist paramilitary group.

There are many preconceptions about life in eastern Germany, but what is it actually like to live there? We spoke to foreign ...

Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are ...