Regional party leader Björn Höcke will be allowed to remain in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) despite controversial statements about the Nazi era, media reported Monday. Höcke, who leads the AfD’s regional branch in the state of Thuringia, was widely criticized last year for calling Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame,” and saying the country should do a “180-degree... 

Anti-refugee rhetoric has propelled the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to third place in the country, a fresh poll has revealed. According to a weekly survey by INSA, AfD would have received 10.5 percent of the vote if an election was held Wednesday. This means that the ultranationalist party has surged ahead of left-leaning parties the Greens and Die Linke (Left Party), which both...