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

NPD membership has declined to only 5,000 members, top leadership positions are left unfilled, and the party is no longer represented in any of Germany's state parliaments.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 supreme constitutional court has rejected a proposed ban on a far-right party accused of neo-Nazi links because its members are deemed too ineffective to pose a real threat to democracy.

Despite six decades of required anti-Nazi teaching in German schools, neo-Nazis are on the rise. And last month, the country established the first centralized database to track them.

An NPD ban is likely to find favor among the German population, too. In a recent poll by broadcaster ARD, 81 percent of participants said they felt neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists were handled ...