Germany

Elon Musk’s outspoken support for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) has intensified concerns among German officials and democracy advocates, and it features prominently in a new PBS FRONTLINE investigation into the rise of nationalist politics across Europe.

In the six months before Adolf Hitler seized power, the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. His party was losing supporters and facing financial collapse. Hitler was considered a failure and a political joke. Yet somehow, in a few brief weeks, he became chancellor of Germany. Weeks later, Germany was no longer a democracy. Timothy Ryback, author of Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power joins us on "The Source."

Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and right after he was criticized for making what many viewers interpreted as a Nazi salute during an inauguration speech.

Since the Holocaust, Germany has worked to overcome its Nazi history. But over the past decade, Germany has faced a rising wave of far-right violence and plots against Jews, Muslims, immigrants and politicians. PBS's FRONTLINE investigates.

Troy Peters, the Musical Director of YOSA (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio), recently returned from Germany where 60 students enjoyed performing for audiences in three cities. "I want [them] to enter adulthood hoping and wishing that their futures be boundless, because they're going to go further."

The San Antonio airport’s first flight ‘across the pond’ will be to Frankfurt, starting in May 2024.

Organizers say more than 250,000 visitors are expected during the 10-day run of Wurstfest, which opens this weekend at Landa Park in New Braunfels.

Germans have a knack for stringing lots of words together to create new words. From Mundschutzmode to Coronamutationsgebiet, the pandemic has spawned a plethora of them.

Germans abide by a host of laws to keep noise at a minimum after 10 p.m. and on Sundays. Thousands of motorcyclists have been riding in roaring protest through cities in response to a proposed ban.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's newest historical epic tells the story of an artist after World War II. It touches on the sensitive subject of national guilt — and not without controversy.