One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party is going on trial Thursday on charges of twice using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he is running to become his state’s governor.
FILE - Bjoern Hoecke attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 one day after the state elections in the German state of Thuringia. One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party is going on trial Thursday on charges of twice using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he is running to become his states governor.
Prosecutors allege that Höcke said “Everything for ...” and encouraged the audience to shout “Germany!” He once called the Holocaust memorial in Berlin a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” in how it remembers its past. A party tribunal in 2018Höcke's regional branch of AfD is now one of three that the domestic intelligence agency has under official surveillance as a “proven right-wing extremist” group.
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