'Shame, Shame, Shame!': Readers React to German Racist Attack
The world was shocked by the brazen racist attack against eight Indians in the Eastern German town of Mügeln over the weekend. SPIEGEL ONLINE readers react.
View ArticlePoll Shock: Social Democrats Behind Neo-Nazis in Saxony Survey
According to a voter survey in the eastern German state of Saxony, 9 percent of the population supports the neo-Nazi NPD with just 8 percent in favor of the Social Democrats. The NPD says it's because...
View ArticleSPIEGEL Study: Germany Still Divided 18 Years After the Fall of the Wall
To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, SPIEGEL polled over 1,000 Germans who had grown up on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The disturbing conclusion is that, 18 years after the Wall...
View ArticleDrowning out the Neo-Nazi Cacophony: Government Woos School Kids with...
One eastern German state is taking on the neo-Nazis at their own game in the fight against right-wing extremism in schools. It's distributing free rock CDs, a tactic borrowed from the far-right NPD...
View ArticleJersey Number '88': Regional Football Battles against Neo-Nazi Influence
Hardly a weekend goes by in Germany without some sort of racist incident on the football pitch or in the stands. A new program in Germany aims to combat neo-Nazi influence among soccer fans.
View ArticleUnderstating the Far-Right Menace: Police Chief Quits over Massaging Neo-Nazi...
The chief of police in an eastern German state has resigned following criticism of his decision to change how the state's notoriously high far-right crime statistics are calculated. The new method...
View ArticleRise in Neo-Nazi Violence : Far-Right Attacks Reached New Record in Germany...
Last year a record number of attacks were carried out by right-wing extremists in Germany, a prominent anti-racism campaigner said. The problem is especially bad in eastern Germany.
View ArticleÜbermensch Undermined: Mine Proposal Threatens Nietzsche's Grave
Brown coal mining is a major employer in the most beleaguered parts of the former East Germany but it comes at a high price: the decimation of the cultural and natural landscape. Will Friedrich...
View ArticleRacism in Germany: Family Escapes Small Town Xenophobia
Insulted, spat at and attacked -- by ordinary Germans. Unable to bear the daily racism, a pastor's family fled from a small town in eastern Germany back to the their former home in the west.
View ArticleFormer Snoop Wants Privacy Protected: Fear of the Stasi Lives On in Eastern...
The East German secret police may have disbanded long ago, but fear of former Stasi members lives on. A court is about to decide whether a former Stasi informant can be outed in public. The answer will...
View ArticleNPD Advances in Eastern Germany: Right-Wing Extremists Find Ballot-Box...
The neo-Nazi party NPD now has representatives in every county council in the eastern German state of Saxony. In one town, the party even managed to win over a quarter of the vote.
View ArticleA Test of Tolerance: Doors Open at Eastern Germany's First Mosque
After two years of construction and recurrent protest from locals, Eastern Germany's first mosque celebrated its official opening in Berlin. Crowds of some 150 people turned up to protest -- fewer than...
View ArticleThe Wall in the Mind: Easterners Still Feel like Second-Class Citizens
A new study confirms that Germans living in the former East Germany feel disadvantaged and resentful of the West. The study also finds higher levels of racism and Islamophobia in the East, while sexism...
View ArticleDivided in the Crisis: Eastern Germany Less Hard Hit than the West
A new government report shows that the former East Germany has been less bruised by the economic crisis than the richer West. The region has more smaller companies that are more flexible and less...
View ArticleHomesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better...
Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an...
View ArticleGermany's 1989 Generation: Go West, Children of the Revolution
One half of Germany is dying. Prospects for a younger generation in eastern Germany are pretty grim. Even many of those who want to stay in their hometowns are being forced to drift westwards. Born in...
View Article20 Years of Investment: Despite Progress, Former East Germany Still Lags Behind
Billions have been pumped into the former East Germany, but 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, its economy has not caught up with the West. A new report praises the progress so far but warns...
View ArticleStriking Discovery in Germany: Archaeologists Excavate 4,000-Year-Old Skeletons
Archaeologists in Germany have made a number of sensational finds along a railway line under construction in eastern Germany -- Bronze Age treasures, burial sites and evidence of settlements dating...
View ArticleLaser Optics in Jena: A Bright Light in Eastern Germany
A top world maker of laser optics emerged from the Communist era and German reunification, helping lift the fortunes of its hometown, Jena.
View ArticleDitching the 'Dishwater': Eastern German Beer Scores with World Cup Sponsorship
In 2006, German football fans put up a fight when it was revealed that the American beer Budweiser would be the official brew of the World Cup. This time around, InBev is in charge, and fans in South...
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