A woman was urinated on, had her head shaved and had swastikas drawn on her while she was sleeping at an apartment in Gelsenkirchen, near Essen in North-Rhine Westphalia.
Computer and video games can include swastikas and other Nazi symbols, a German industry body said Thursday, after a heated debate over the "Wolfenstein" franchise in which gamers battle Third Reich forces.
Swastikas have repeatedly been sprayed at the spot where a nine-year-old Syrian boy died in a traffic accident at the end of June in a small east German town. Politicians have reacted with disgust to the crime.
A German village has decided to keep a contentious Nazi-era church bell that bears a swastika and the words "All for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler", arguing it serves as a reminder of the country's dark past.
At four-by-four metres in size, the swastika had remained hidden underground for decades. That is, until a construction worker discovered it on Friday.
A Syrian refugee has confessed to setting light to a hotel in Rhineland-Palatinate where he was staying and spraying swastikas on the walls to make it look like a political crime.
Six people suffered from smoke inhalation injuries early on Thursday morning after unknown attackers set fire to a hotel in Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
On Sunday eastern Germany's first Buddhist graveyard opened in Dresden, marking a turning point for the region's Vietnamese community. But a missing symbol makes the burial ground a peculiarly German affair.
Giving a “Hitler salute” is illegal even if there is no apparent political motive, a Lower Saxony court ruled this week, after an intoxicated homeless man provoked passersby with the Nazi-style raised arm gesture.
