Inside Germany’s Far-Right Surge
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch, host Raney Aronson-Rath speaks with longtime FRONTLINE correspondent Evan Williams, director of The Rise of Germany’s New Right. Together, they unpack how the hardline Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has surged in popularity, drawing young voters on TikTok, capitalizing on economic anxiety, and reframing nationalism for a new generation.
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| 0:00.0 | Far right to |
| 0:02.0 | non-the-prosite |
| 0:05.0 | is multi-criminel. |
| 0:07.0 | Allis for |
| 0:08.0 | Germany, |
| 0:09.0 | dear friends. |
| 0:10.0 | Far-right nationalist parties |
| 0:13.0 | have been making surprising strides |
| 0:15.0 | across Europe lately, |
| 0:17.0 | from Italy to France to Portugal and Austria. But nowhere is this political shift more fraught than in Germany, |
| 0:24.6 | where there's been a historic surge in support for the hardline alternative for Germany party, |
| 0:30.6 | known as the AFD. |
| 0:32.6 | To Germany now where the success of the far right in two state elections |
| 0:36.6 | is tonight sending shockwaves across the |
| 0:38.6 | country. I'm very excited for the IFD and I think you are really the best hope for Germany. |
| 0:45.5 | Far-right views have become more mainstream. Be a real man, be a right wing, then you get a |
| 0:51.2 | go-frey. |
| 0:52.2 | Germany is the European Union's largest economy and right wing. Then you get a girlfriend. |
| 1:00.0 | Germany is the European Union's largest economy and a nation whose modern identity has been forged from the hard-learned lessons of World War II and the Holocaust. |
| 1:05.4 | The Germans did not invent anti-Semitism, but they invented Auschwitz. |
| 1:10.7 | Frontline's new film, The Rise of Germany's new right, takes us inside this movement. |
| 1:15.6 | The RFD is dominating the political discussion, the political debate on TikTok, especially. |
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