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The AfD, now the second-largest party in the German government, is on a similar electoral trajectory to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Echoes of 1930s Europe grow ever louder. We ignore them at our peril

The far right is on the march again in Germany. The parallels with the rise of Hitler almost a century ago are everywhere.

  • Dennis Glover

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Friedrich Merz, front right, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin.

‘Never thought I would have to say something like this’: Germany turns away from US

Germany’s new leader did not even wait for the final election results before delivering his verdict on the US President - and charting the path forward.

  • Rob Harris
AfD leader Alice Weidel takes part in a televised discussion in Germany last Sunday.

The woman leading Germany’s far-right resurgence

Terrorist attacks and job cuts have left Germans feeling bitter, and Alice Weidel is set to benefit in an election some say could seal the fate of Europe.

  • Rob Harris
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Thousands died in this city 80 years ago – now the far right wants to own the story

Three nights of unrelenting bombing destroyed Dresden in 1945. As snow fell at the weekend, neo-Nazi supporters took to its streets to “mourn” – and win political support.

  • Rob Harris
US Vice President J.D. Vance stuns the audience at the 61st Munich Security Conference with his intervention in European politics.

Vance stuns Europeans with lesson on whom to trust

Leaders had gathered expecting to hear the Trump administration’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine. The US vice president decided to toe the Elon Musk line instead.

  • Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger
Members of the National Socialist Network are arrested as they hold a counter-protest on Australia Day in Adelaide.

Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X

White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday, two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Randwick council cleaners remove antisemitic graffiti from houses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

What if the antisemitic tide has a bigger target: Australia’s stability?

If foreign malign forces masterminded some of this wave of attacks, as authorities suspect, Australia will not be alone.

  • Lydia Khalil
Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2017.

National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he used his pugnacious race politics to reach the presidential election run-off in 2002.

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Five Eyes nations sound unprecedented alarm on ‘shocking’ teenage terror threat

Australian children as young as 12 are at risk of becoming terrorists, demanding a “whole-of-society” response to online radicalisation, authorities say.

  • Matthew Knott
Candace Owens has made claims about a range of minority groups, including Jews and transgender people.

Extremist influencer Candace Owens vows to appeal against Australian visa cancellation

The agitator said she and her tour promoter would file an appeal, and the case would be reviewed by a federal judge in days.

  • Olivia Ireland

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