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Germany will send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine from its national ​stocks, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday, warning that ‌Russia was likely to intensify its air campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure as winter approaches. Speaking at a videoconference of nations supporting Ukraine, Pistorius said he had decided to "deliver urgently" additional PAC-2 ​interceptor missiles. Patriot missiles are currently the only effective defence against Russian ​ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine, officials say. "Since Russia is only ⁠advancing very slowly at the front line, it is trying to destroy ​Ukraine's economic base and critical infrastructure by way of air raids...

In April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth. Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral...

This video from Black Conservative Perspective discusses the recent electoral success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, where they secured 44% of the vote (0:28-0:32, 9:16-9:20). Key takeaways from the video: Mainstream Media Reaction: The narrator highlights what they describe as a "meltdown" or "panic" within the mainstream liberal media, which labels the AfD as "far-right" or even neo-Nazi. The creator argues these terms are smear tactics used to discredit a party that is simply advocating for common-sense policies (2:17-2:48, 8:08-9:01). Core AfD Policies: The video notes that the AfD's platform focuses on...

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin addresses the Germans, particularly Friedrich Merz 🇩🇪 shocked by the results achieved by the AfD. “We don’t want to attack you! Why would we? That era is long gone! Anyone who still has their wits about them and knows how to think understands that. 1) You already have a national debt of 2,500 billion euros, and no serious economist knows how you plan to pay it back. (Alice Weidel declares her country bankrupt.) And now, you want to borrow another 1,000 billion to arm yourselves against us. 2) Your country is teeming with millions of migrants...

This week I predicted that Germany's Alternative for Germany would likely win Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a development I called "earth-shattering." The AfD has now moved from a protest party on the margins to one capable of winning elections outright. It is important to note that the party is not "far right" — as much of the European and international press labels it.

In 2024, the net loss was 81,000; last year, it was 97,000. And it is not just those who actually emigrate, but also those who have already mentally checked out of the country. “When it is precisely these people who are mentally quitting, that is not a character flaw on their part. It is the price a country pays for believing for too long that it can milk achievement, lecture people about freedom, and regard success with suspicion without ever having to pay the bill.”

The election result is described as a “blue earthquake” in German right-wing media but it may not be enough for the AfD to secure an absolute majority. AfD top candidate Ulrich Siegmund and AfD co-leader Alice Weidel celebrate after exit polls following Saxony-Anhalt’s state elections at the fairgrounds in Magdeburg, Eastern Germany on September 6, 2026. TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFPAccording to exit poll results, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has scored an unprecedented victory in Saxony-Anhalt today. As of 9 p.m., the AfD was projected to have reached 44%, a staggering 23.2% increase compared to its result in the...

Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.4% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted

This Sunday, the German state of Saxony-Anhalt holds its state election. The populist-right Alternative for German (AfD) is far out in front, but will have difficulty finding a coalition partner with which to form a ruling majority in the state legislature. AfD has been described as an extremist party, not merely a populist-right party. So, I thought I'd link to its manifesto (or platform). I'll say a few things about its manifesto in my comment following

A century ago today, seven hostages taken from the German pre-Nazi Thule Society were executed by the short-lived Munich Soviet just before it was crushed by right-wing militias. The Thule Society (logo at right) was a Bavarian volkisch club with a profound interest in stuff like crackpot race theory and Teutonic mythology; its very name alludes to a legendary territory hypothesized since antiquity to lie at the fringes of the world, often associated with Scandinavia and with the origins of the Aryan race.* Society members figured in the founding of the German Workers’ Party (DAP), the party which became the...

An unidentified object exploded at a train station in the southern German city of Augsburg early Wednesday morning, with two people sustaining minor injuries due to acoustic trauma, police said. Window panes were also reportedly damaged by the explosion, which occurred in a building passageway. No information is yet available regarding the circumstances surrounding the incident. Parts of the station were closed off as police continued investigating the scene. The State Criminal Police Office (LKA) is on the scene with an explosive-disposal robot, the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper reported. Police first responded to the incident at around 5 a.m. local time....

According to media reports, a key installation near the Jänschwalde coal plant in Brandenburg was repeatedly targeted with rockets, which emergency crews later found and defused. Several improvised explosive devices were found at a substation near a coal-fired power plant in Germany on Tuesday and several power lines were damaged, police and a grid operator said. Operator 50Hertz said there was a "brief interruption of service" but all lines are now back in operation at the Preilack substation, which distributes power from the nearby Jänschwalde power plant. Police said no one was hurt. The apparent aim was to trigger a...

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902 had bound the two island empires together against a common rival, but it was the German U-boat war that finally brought the Imperial Japanese Navy to the Mediterranean. As Royal Navy escorts were stretched to breaking point, Britain turned to its ally in the East. Eight Japanese destroyers, commanded by Admiral Soto Kozo, sailed for Malta -- and over the months that followed, they escorted nearly eight hundred troopships through submarine-infested waters and clashed with enemy submarines on more than thirty occasions. Why Did Japan Send Its Navy To British Malta In 1917? | 13:33...

With a cast of characters including a former prime minister, some of the richest executives in France and Germany, Paris' biggest-ever corporate crime trial continued this week with 37 defendants in the dock. France's largest-ever corporate corruption trial resumed in Paris this week with more drama than your average Mexican soap opera. The case offered further tales of illicit backroom dealing, a €5 million divorce settlement tab picked up by French taxpayers and allegations that a former French prime minister accepted bribes in connection with a string of acquisitions made by the state-owned French oil conglomerate Elf Aquitane in the...

Two workers at Germany’s busiest airport have died of malaria amid an outbreak in the travel hub believed to be caused by mosquitoes that arrived on a plane. Two Frankfurt Airport workers died after contracting the illness transmitted by mosquitoes, a spokesperson for Fraport, which operates the airport, told the BBC late Wednesday. The pair of workers, who have not yet been identified, were sickened in a rare outbreak first detected in July, according to the airport. A total of six male airport employees in different jobs and areas of the airport were infected with malaria in the outbreak, the...

Some violent crimes have seen the number of foreign suspects triple. A forensic science police van drives towards the scene in an allotment complex in the western Spandau district of Berlin on July 26, 2026, where the chief suspect in the previous nights’ deadly attack near Berlin’s Pride parade was shot dead. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP. According to official German government data, the number of foreign suspects in violent crimes have skyrocketed in Germany, since the start of the century. The number of foreigners accused of homicide increased by 77.1% between 2000 and 2025, while the increase in suspected sexual...

Newspaper artist Howard Brodie enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, soon joining the combat artist program. He was sent by Yank magazine to capture his impressions of the war with a pencil during the Guadalcanal campaign and then the fighting in Europe. One observer of his work wrote, “By capturing emotions on the field with fluid lines and attention to detail, Brodie’s work is honest and at times, harrowing, but this honesty established him as one of the top news artists of his time. In February 1945, he had been assigned by Yank to accompany K Company, 406th Regiment,...

A conservative German mayor's €10,000 donation to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is making things awkward for his party's leaders. Bernd Prange, a Christian Democrat who serves as mayor of Altmärkische Höhe in Saxony-Anhalt, wrote in an open letter on Wednesday that he would be voting for the AfD in the state's upcoming election on Sept. 6. "I want the AfD to become so strong in the Saxony-Anhalt election that it can govern alone," wrote Prange. The goal, he said, was for his own party to "finally wake up," tear down Germany's political firewall and abandon what he called...

AfD leader Alice Weidel has said her party would seek to take Germany out of both the euro and the Schengen agreement if it entered the federal government, setting out one of its most far-reaching challenges to the country's existing European framework. Speaking in ZDF's summer interview, Weidel also pledged to close Germany's borders and argued that the country had been economically stronger before adopting the single currency. Euro Exit Returns to AfD Agenda Weidel reaffirmed the AfD's commitment to leaving the euro, saying she still supported the position in the party's federal election program. “Germany was significantly better off...

This macroeconomic documentary argues that Germany is experiencing a structural, irreversible deindustrialization due to a combination of self-imposed policy failures, high energy costs, and bureaucratic paralysis. The creator posits that Germany is essentially executing a modern version of the 1944 Morgenthau Plan (0:00–1:15), resulting in a collapsing middle class and a declining standard of living that may soon fall below that of Mississippi (1:23–3:45). Key themes include: The Breakdown of the German Business Model: Germany’s economy previously relied on a "geopolitical arbitrage" of cheap Russian natural gas and high-end manufacturing exports to China. With these pillars compromised, the nation is...