In Thuringia, 38% of people aged between 18-24 gave their vote to the far-right party — compared to 33% overall, according to public broadcaster ARD's Tagesschau election analysis.

In the early 1930s, Thuringia was one of the first power bases of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party. Nowadays, the AfD appeals especially to people in the formerly communist and less ...

The far-right AfD party has doubled its share of votes in state elections in eastern Germany’s Thuringia, led by controversial figure Björn Höcke.

Migrants, defined as people living for more than 12 months outside their country of birth, made up 18.8% of the population in Germany in 2021, compared with 15.3% in the U.S. in that year ...

Thuringia played a major role in World War II Germany. The Buchenwald concentration camp, where 56,000 people were killed, was 12 miles east of the state capital, Erfurt.It was home to the ...

AfD's (Alternative for Germany) top candidate for the state elections in Thuringia, Bjoern Hoecke, reacts on stage during an election campaign event in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 26, 2019.

Around 2,000 people have protested outside the Thuringia's parliament in Germany’s Erfurt as a far-left prime minister takes power in the German state - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Once part of former East Germany (GDR), the state of Thuringia is today home to only 2.15 million people - making it the fifth smallest German state by population and one of the most sparsely ...

Newly founded left-wing party, the Sarah Wagenknecht alliance – or BSW – looks to be coming in third in both Thuringia and Saxony, where roughly 1.7 million people and 3.3 million were ...

Two major wildfires have been burning in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. Meanwhile, several people were injured when a bus overturned in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Follow DW for more.

Following Sunday’s elections, hundreds of people took to the streets in Saxony and Thuringia to protest the shift to the right. About 500 demonstrators gathered at the state parliament in Erfurt ...