Conservative Friedrich Merz is expected to win but the far-right AfD is poised to become second biggest political force.

In the southern state of Bavaria, two of Hitler’s closest associates, Adolf Wagner and Hans Frank, were installed as state ...

German voters are choosing a new government in an election Sunday dominated by worries about the years-long stagnation of ...

This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...

The author takes the reader through these last months of democracy, minute by minute, day by day, blow by blow.

Voting is now underway across Germany as people cast their vote following an election campaign driven by the nation's ...

Suse Lowenstein’s son was killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. An artist, she responded by creating a huge sculptural installation depicting the raw emotion women ...

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s ...

If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU.

Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the ...

The election is taking place seven months before it was originally planned after center-left Scholz's coalition collapsed ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as ...