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.^[6][7]

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The Third Path Der Dritte Weg
Chairman	Matthias Fischer
Founded	28 September 2013; 10 years ago (2013-09-28) Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg
Split from	NPD, Free Network South
Headquarters	Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Membership	700 (2022) est.[1]
Ideology	Pan-Germanism German ultranationalism Revolutionary nationalism Neo-Nazism[2][3] Neo-fascism Strasserism Antisemitism Third Position
Political position	Far-right[4]
Colours	Green
Anthem	Der III. Weg Marschiert![5]
Party flag
Website
der-dritte-weg.info
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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,^[8] the National Corps, Misanthropic Division, Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine,^[9][10] and the Nordic Resistance Movement in the Nordic countries.^[11] Their founder and chairman is Klaus Armstroff.^[12] The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.^[13]

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.^[14] The party stood in the 2019 European elections, achieving 0.03% of the vote.

The party is registered at the Federal Returning Office as "DER DRITTE WEG" short-form: "III. Weg".^[15] According to the party's website, the official English translation of the name is "The Third Way", stylized as "THE THIRD WAY".^[16] Despite this, the party's name is commonly translated as "The Third Path" or "The III. Path".^[17][18]

The party describes itself as national revolutionary and partially bases itself on the ideology of the left wing of the Nazi Party, namely the Strasser Brothers.^[19] The III. Path has widely been described as a ultranationalist and neo-Nazi party.^{[2][3][9][18]}

• Far-right politics in Germany
• Strasserism
• Neo-Nazism in Germany
• Neo-völkisch
• List of political parties in Germany