Third Way (Germany)
The III. Path or The Third Path (German: Der III. Weg, Der Dritte Weg) is a far-right and neo-Nazi political party in Germany.
The Third Path Der Dritte Weg | |
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| Chairman | Matthias Fischer |
| Founded | 28 September 2013 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg |
| Split from | NPD, Free Network South |
| Headquarters | Bad Dürkheim, Germany |
| Membership | 700 (2022) est. |
| Ideology | Pan-Germanism German ultranationalism Revolutionary nationalism Neo-Nazism Neo-fascism Strasserism Antisemitism Third Position |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Green |
| Anthem | Der III. Weg Marschiert! |
| Party flag | |
| Website | |
| der-dritte-weg | |
It was founded on 28 September 2013 by former NPD officials, and activists from the banned Free Network South. They have ties with Assad's government in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the National Corps, Misanthropic Division, Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine, the Nordic Resistance Movement in the Nordic countries. Their founder and chairman is Klaus Armstroff. The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.
A group of people bearing Der Dritte Weg flags marched in through a town in Saxony on 1 May 2019, the day before the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust, carrying a banner saying "Social justice instead of criminal foreigners". The Central Council of Jews said that the state government should ban such marches if it were serious about tackling right-wing extremism. The party stood in the 2019 European elections.