A fire broke out early Saturday morning in a building that was to house asylum-seekers in the town of Tröglitz in Sachsen-Anhalt. Investigators strongly suspect arson. The fire follows weeks of protests against the shelter by the far-right NPD party.
A mayor in Saxony-Anhalt has resigned after being targeted by far-right demonstrations, while another mayor in the same region is under police protection following death threats.
A court has told a town mayor that he doesn't have to shake a Nazi's hand if he doesn't want to, after a councillor from the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany accused him of discrimination.
German media were almost united this weekend in condemning demonstrations against refugee housing in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn-Hellersdorf - but can far-right sentiment ever really be overcome?
Udo Voigt once described Hitler as a "great man" and has demanded the return of "German lands". He will now sit in the European Parliament, earning a basic salary of €8,000 a month, as the first member of Germany's far-right party to win an EU seat.
UPDATE: Germany's foreign minister said on Monday he was horrified that the neo-Nazi party, the NPD, had won a seat in the European Parliament. Jewish leaders and Chancellor Angela Merkel also voiced concern about the rise of the far right.
The controversial former leader of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party has made a new life for himself by opening a pub on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca with his wife, a local paper reported on Wednesday.
Berlin police may be relieved that neo-Nazis have cancelled their Labour Day march, but May 1st still risks seeing violent clashes between left-wing activists, the far-right and riot police throughout the country.
UPDATE: A neo-Nazi rally ended after 200 metres on Saturday after hundreds of people stopped them from marching into an ethnically-diverse Berlin neighbourhood. Police arrested 16 people and 17 officers were injured.
The number two figure in Germany's far-right party stepped down on Sunday after being photographed with a phallic-shaped cake, and recruiting a former porn star who was sacked from the party for having sex with a black man.
Here is a story to mull over - a German porn star quits her film career and joins a far-right political party with neo-Nazi links, but runs into trouble when they discover an interracial scene from her one of her movies.
The former head of Germany’s neo-Nazi party, the NPD, is threatened with eviction from his own party over rumours about his private life after he stepped down as leader last week.
Almost one third of officials within the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) have been convicted of crimes or are being investigated in connection with criminal activities. The figures were released as the party's leader stepped down.
The Constitutional Court is again considering whether to ban the neo-Nazi NPD. Is Germany's democracy strong enough to handle a handful of unpleasant nutters spouting hatred? It should be, but needs a hand, says Hannah Cleaver.
Germany's states are making a renewed push to ban the country's best-known neo-Nazi party, arguing it is basically the same as Hitler's party, and is damaging democracy.
A top neo-Nazi politician appeared in a Berlin court on Wednesday facing incitement charges after police found CDs with racist music on, in his military shop. He claimed he never knew they were there.
Authorities have ordered a neo-Nazi party to take down campaign posters in central Germany for being anti-Romani. The placards lined a street leading up to a former concentration camp.
A German far-right party has sparked outrage by sending mock one-way airline tickets to politicians with migrant roots, urging them to "go home" ahead of Sunday's election.
The youth branch of a neo-Nazi party has sent out propaganda condoms reading “for foreigners and selected Germans.” A Green party politician was among the recipients.
A man has died after being attacked by a neo-Nazi in one of two violent attacks on foreigners in Germany over the past few days. The second incident involved members of the Bundeswehr throwing fireworks at a home for refugees.
Reasonable citizens in Berlin are starting to offer support to refugees set to be housed in their district - after racists and neo-Nazis dominated a meeting about the plans, implicitly threatening to burn the refugees out.
Germany’s neo-Nazi NPD party is holding its national conference this weekend - on Adolf Hitler's birthday. Facing an attempt to have it banned, an expert believes financial strains, internal conflicts and dwindling support are already crippling the far-right extremists.
