Hundreds of thousands have continued to take to the streets to protest the far-right opposition in Germany. In the small town of Döbeln, in the AfD stronghold of Saxony, older women have set up their own Grannies against the Right group.

PROTEST UNTER DEM MOTTO „DEMOKRATIE VERTEIDIGEN: ZUSAMMEN GEGEN RECHTS“

Demonstrators protest against the right-wing extremist activities as they gather in the Jungfernstieg and surrounding areas in Hamburg, Germany, Friday Jan. 19, 2024. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP) • The Associated Press

Germans’ efforts to confront their country’s criminal history and to root out antisemitism have shifted from vigilance to a philosemitic McCarthyism that threatens their rich cultural life.

How much truth is there to the accusation that Germany's AfD is not just a right-wing extremist party but crosses the line into neo-Nazism?

More than three decades after an arson attack on a refugee shelter, the arsonist has been convicted of murder. In September 1991, 27-year-old Samuel Yeboah from Ghana died in the southwestern German town of Saarlouis.

The German government has adopted an action plan against antisemitism that is being described as a milestone. But much depends on its implementation, with antisemitic hate speech on the rise.

Most outbound commuters on the U3 line of Berlin’s U-Bahn subway system exit long before reaching the penultimate stop, nestled between the Grunewald forest and the Free University. But Moses Pölking remembers the uneasiness he felt when he was riding the train and first spotted the station’s peculiar name on the route map: Onkel Toms Hütte.

The way the Nazis used “the politics of legality” to gain absolute power after a failed coup is an ominous lesson about the fragility of a republic.