For 70 years, Germany embodied postwar recovery – prosperous, stable and admired. Now, as exports falter, populism grows and ...

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The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is a far-right party that has polarized and mobilized German politics in a largely unprecedented way since the end of World War II. Their ...

Life of a RadicalTom Goyens, University of Illinois Press, £22.99JOHANN MOST was born February 5 1846 in Augsburg, which was ...

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The current wave of plant closures are not just ‘regrettable isolated cases,’ but rather an expression of a systematic restructuring by big business in the interests of profit.

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