The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Germany's highest court doesn't believe the party poses a serious enough threat. ... NPD membership has declined to only 5,000 members, top leadership positions are left unfilled, ...

The National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) is the oldest right-wing extremist party in Germany. It was founded 1964, not even 20 years after World War II. But while it certainly is ...

Germany's top constitutional court will soon rule on whether the 'neo-Nazi' NPD should be barred from politics. But a ban might force it underground where it could be more dangerous.

Neo-Nazi enclaves like Jamel, Germany, are closed to foreigners and minorities – and supportive of the hard-right NPD party. Last week, 74 percent of Germans said the NPD should be banned.

But the right-wing movement, Koehler says, is fluid and dynamic and present all over Germany. The NPD is the focal point, and like other parties with local deputies, it receives government funding.

NPD leader Frank Franz, right, and the party's lawyer at the Constitutional Court in, Germany, March 1. Germany is seeking to ban the party. NPD leader Frank Franz, right, and the party's lawyer ...

A past attempt to ban Germany's far-right National ... State interior ministers reportedly plan to create another proposal for outlawing the NPD. Zum Inhalt springen DER SPIEGEL International ...

Germany took a step towards banning the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) on Wednesday when politicians formally recommended going ahead with hotly disputed legal proceedings as dozens of ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the NPD has about 6,000 members in a country of 82 million, causing judges to classify it as a “limited campaigning capacity and low impact on society”.