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"Many people are sharing more online because they don’t realize it could be used against them," says net activist Markus Beckedahl. He spoke to DW about data protection and IT security. Digital savviness doesn’t just happen - it needs to be learned.

Gerald Knaus is a founding member of the European Stability Initiative, ESI. He has been studying the plight of refugees and migrants since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. We spoke to him about the challenges posed by migration and the UN migration pact.

Omid Nouripour was just thirteen when he arrived in Germany as a refugee from Iran. Today he is a Green Party member of the Bundestag. He speaks about the cruel impact that war has on a young life, how he came to view Germany as home, and the people who helped him on his journey.

Germany is considered Europe’s strongest nation, both politically and economically. Just like a century ago, it is viewed as culturally sensitive but ruthless when it comes to wielding power. How can it counter the fears of its neighbors and partners today? The historian Andreas Rödder answers this and other questions in the DW interview.

“People in eastern Germany believe they’ve been given a raw deal, that they’ve been shut out,” says Bodo Ramelow, head of the regional government in the state of Thuringia. In The Interview on DW, Ramelow, the first state premier from the Left Party, argues that right-wing populism and the rise of the AfD is not exclusively a problem in eastern parts of Germany.

German historian Peter Brandt talks to DW about divisions in modern Germany, the future of the Social Democrats and his relationship to his late father, former Chancellor Willy Brandt.

Güler is Secretary of State for Integration in Northrhine-Westphalia. She is also a member of the CDU executive. She talks to DW about the xenophobic attacks in Chemnitz and says right-wingers have to be integrated in our social and political systems.

"Africa and every country in it needs to go its own way," says the German Development Minister Gerd Müller. In a DW Interview, he speaks about Europe's responsibility toward Africa, lessons learned from colonialism and the outlook for development policy.

Niklas Frank is the son of the man Hitler installed as general governor of occupied Poland. Hans Frank was responsible for the death camps in Poland. Niklas Frank has faced up to his past. But he tells DW that the Germans in general have not.

The far-right AfD has become the main opposition party in Germany's parliament. For four years, Franziska Schreiber was the right-hand woman of the party's former chairperson Frauke Petry. Now Schreiber has left the party — and written a book. Inside AfD is an angry reckoning with what she describes as a "party dominated by rightist radicals."