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The FRONTLINE Dispatch

Investigating the Rise of the Far Right in Germany

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In recent EU elections, far-right parties made major gains across the continent, including Germany's AfD party.

FRONTLINE correspondent Evan Williams has been reporting on the rise of the far-right in Germany for years. In 2021, he examined a wave of violence targeting Jews, Muslims, immigrants, and politicians in FRONTLINE’s documentary Germany’s Neo-Nazis and the Far Right.

He returned to the country this year to report Germany’s Enemy Within, a deep look at the rise of the far-right AfD party and its vision for the country, ahead of state elections in September.

“What we noticed over the past few years was the increasing power and strength and popularity of the organized far right — what’s called the ‘new right’ in Germany, in politics,” he told FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney-Aronson Rath.

Germany’s Enemy Within is streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, FRONTLINE’s YouTube Channel, and the PBS App.

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Germany, Italy, Austria, and...

0:02.0

Basically, European voters have pulled the parliament to the farthest right it's ever...

0:07.5

In EU elections earlier the summer, right-wing parties made major gains across the continent. That includes a far-right

0:14.7

German party called the AFD alternative for Germany. In the eastern state of

0:20.3

Thuringia, one voter in three now backs the IFT.

0:24.2

The party expects substantial gains in state elections next year.

0:28.0

Over the past several years, correspondent Evan Williams has been reporting for us on the rise of the far right in Germany. and past few years was the increasing power and strength and popularity of the

0:45.1

organized far right in politics. His latest film with us is called Germany's

0:50.3

enemy within. He joins me today to talk about his reporting. I'm

0:54.6

Rainey Aronson Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer of frontline, and

0:58.5

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