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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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Steve Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

French far-right leader cancels speech after Bannon gives ‘Nazi salute’

Steve Bannon said his gesture was just a “wave” of thanks, and accused National Rally leader Jordan Bardella of “wetting his pants like a little child”.

  • Michael Koziol
Holocaust survivor Stanislaw Zalewski.

‘The consequence of being considered different is active persecution’

On the anniversary of the death camp liberation, Auschwitz survivors warn the hatred that led to the horror is ever present.

  • Rob Harris
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At Auschwitz, a solemn 80th anniversary ceremony is held amid global rise in antisemitism

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since the Nazi German death camp was liberated.

  • Rob Harris
Online radicalisation

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
Far-right AFD politician Gabrielle Mailbeck

German youth look to far-right in latest elections

A Tik Tok campaign helped Germany’s far-right AfD win a record number of votes in European elections, outpolling each of Germany’s three ruling coalition parties.

  • Rob Harris
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France’s far right is opposed to R&B artist Aya Nakamura performing at the Olympics.

Rise of the far right puts French pop star in crosshairs of Olympics culture war

France’s surging far right doesn’t want a black, Muslim woman singing, “Non, je ne regrette rien”, in front of the Eiffel Tower and a global television audience at the opening ceremony.

  • Chip Le Grand
Mourners pray as caskets draped in Canadian flags are lined up at a funeral for the four Muslim family members killed by a white nationalist in June 2021.

Canadian white nationalist who drove ute into Muslim family gets life

A judge ruled the actions of Nathaniel Veltman were a “textbook example of terrorist motive and intent”.

Robert Edhouse was raised by bikies before joining a neo-Nazi group and committing murder.

Bikies, neo-Nazis and the ‘death squad’: How a WA murderer traded one underworld life for another

Robert Edhouse’s links to some of WA’s most violent and dangerous people run back to his childhood.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Nazis

Swastikas, schoolboys and social media: teachers face growing problem

Students are giving Nazi salutes and praising Adolf Hitler as social media fuels antisemitism and teenage boys dare each other towards ever-more anti-social behaviour.

  • Jordan Baker

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