Footage emerges day after Thuringia became first German state to elect a mayor from far-right Alternative für Deutschland party
Politicians in a region of central Germany that was the first to elect a mayor from the far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland party on Sunday have expressed outrage at a video of a man wearing neo-Nazi symbols and handing out leftover balloons from the party’s campaign to a local kindergarten.
The footage shows a man wearing a T-shirt with the image of a soldier from the Nazi era, as well as shorts in the black, white and red colours of the disbanded German Reich, or empire. Although the Reich collapsed in 1918, revisionist groups who reject the modern German state claim it still exists.
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