A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country's east on Sunday, and looked set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a ...

Thuringia, a region branded as “the cultural heart of Germany” and located in the dead center of the country, has been primarily a domestic tourism destination attracting almost 95 percent German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Klaus-Dieter von der Weiden (L), President of the Thuringian Constitutional Court, welcomes the incumbent Minister of the Interior ...

The eastern German state of Thuringia is famous for its poets, winter sports, scientific research and delicious sausages. It is also a stronghold of the far-right extremist Alternative for Germany ...

For the first time since 1945 a German far-right party is projected to win in regional elections, exit polls show. Founded in 2013, far-right Alternative für Deutschland – or Alternative for Germany ...

Last May, Reinhard Schramm celebrated his 80th birthday. The leader of the small Jewish community of the German federal state of Thuringia was born almost a year before the end of World War II as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voters sit behind polling booths at the polling station in the Rutheneum secondary school. Thuringia holds local elections for ...

Germany's national football teams will prepare for matches and tournaments at a resort in the eastern state of Thuringia from now on, it was announced on Tuesday. The German Football Federation (DFB) ...

First-time travelers to Germany may flock to the livelier hubs that are Berlin, Frankfurt, or Munich—but hidden from the crowds in the middle of the country is Thuringia, one of Germany’s smaller ...

BERLIN — A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country’s east on Sunday, and looked set to finish a very close second to mainstream ...