The III. Path

The III. Path or The Third Path (German: Der III. Weg, Der Dritte Weg) is a far-right political party in Germany.[5][6]

The III. Path The Third Path Der III. Weg Der Dritte Weg
Chairman	Klaus Armstroff
Founded	Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany September 28, 2013 (2013-09-28)
Split from	National Democratic Party of Germany Free Network South
Headquarters	Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Membership (2019)	580[1]
Ideology	Neo-Nazism[2][3] National revolutionarism[4]
Political position	Far-right
Website
der-dritte-weg.info
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It was founded on September 28, 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,[7] the National Corps, Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine,[8] the Nordic Resistance Movement in the Nordic countries[9] and the National Socialist Focus in Turkey. Their founder and chairman is Klaus Armstroff.[10] The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.[11]

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.[12] The party stood in the 2019 European elections.