Sahra Wagenknecht: the woman who will stop AfD or a simple reactionary?
For the past several weeks, one of Germany’s most hotly discussed issues is whether Sahra Wagenknecht’s new political party –...
Thomas Klikauer
Thomas Klikauer was born half way between Castle Frankenstein, the place where Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, and Karl Benz’s garage where the first motor-car was invented. Educated at the TU Darmstadt, Bremen University, Boston University, and Warwick University, Thomas Klikauer teaches MBA students and supervises PhDs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University, Australia. Among his 925 publications are 15 books. His homepage is: https://klikauer.wordpress.com/. He lives in the beachside suburb of Coogee.
Pirna – Germany’s First Neo-Nazi City?
At the end of 2023 – for the first time in Germany’s post-Nazi (after 1945) history – a right-wing extremist...
The Rise of Germany’s Far Right in 2024
In just one month’s time, Germany’s newest, most powerful, and highly successful Neo-Nazi party – the deceptively labelled AfD (Alternative...
Farmers’ Protests in Germany: not only about fuel, diesel and taxes
In Germany, farmers had swung into mass protests. Their angry slogans – even the incitements to violence against Germany’s progressive...
Three recent strategies of Germany’s right-wing extremists
Germany’s right-wing extremists, in general, and the more violent Neo-Nazis had yet another successful year in 2023 – on election...
Germany’s far right has been active and dangerous in 2023 and will still be there in 2024
Long before Nazism – the most extreme form of right-wing extremism – appeared on the scene during the 1920s, Germany...
Hitler’s Nazis and how Germany became good again
The German way of dealing with its Nazi past has been described as learning from the Germans. German Holocaust remembrance...
Germany: Neo-Fascist vs. Progressives
As in many other countries – including the seemingly ever-increasing prevalence of partisanship in the USA – Germany has also...
What is hate speech?
Perhaps one of the truly saddening facts about hate speech such as online hate speech is that it does not...
Feminazis & Fuckilates – The Language of German Neo-Nazis
It is not uncommon for the radical right to use specific terms, hateful words, and a kind of ideologically-shaped terminologies....
