Deutsches Gericht verurteilt rechtsextremen Politiker Björn Höcke wegen Verwendung eines Nazi-Slogans

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240701-german-court-convicts-far-right-german-politician-bjoern-hoecke-for-using-nazi-slogan

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  1. Highlights:

    > A high-profile politician in the far-right Alternative for Germany party was convicted for the second time Monday of knowingly using a Nazi slogan at a political event.

    > Controversial German far-right politician Bjoern Hoecke was fined €16,900 Monday for using a banned Nazi slogan, his second conviction for the offence.

    > Hoecke, the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern region of Thuringia, was fined by judges in the city of Halle for knowingly using the phrase “Alles fuer Deutschland” (Everything for Germany) at a party gathering in December 2023.

    > At the event in the city of Gera in Thuringia, Hoecke, 52, had called out the phrase “everything for” and incited the crowd to reply: “Germany”.

    > A motto of the Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the phrase is illegal in Germany, along with the Nazi salute and other slogans and symbols from that era.

  2. In before some pretend conservative posts that ‘the left are the real nazis’.

  4. How impulsive and dumb must a man be to do stuff like that in Germany of all places?

  5. “far right politician”

    try “afd neonazi”

  6. I bet Bojack Horseman really thought he could get away with it

  7. We should do this to confederacy and nazi sympathizers here in the US 👍

  8. What makes this an even bigger clown, is that this sad sack of dog shit used to be a teacher. A history teacher.

  9. The saddest part of this story is by the end of this year, this man may be the AFD’s first head of a German State.

  10. Again. He was convicted for this very thing once before. Ever since then, you are legally allowed to call this guy a Nazi.

  11. A politician in Germany saying “everything for Germany” is in trouble?

    Just cause hitler said the same thing doesn’t mean it should be illegal. 

  12. Huh, so this is what it’s like to hold politicians to SOME level of accountability for courting Nazi shit.

  13. His main defense is always he didn’t know the Nazi’s used that slogan. Yeah. A teacher, more specifically a history teacher didn’t know. And as a history teacher he supposedly didn’t study ww2 at all:

    > Der 52-Jährige erzählt im Gericht, dass er sich mit dem 20. Jahrhundert kaum befasst habe. Nicht mal “Mein Kampf”, Adolf Hitlers Werk mit dessen zentralen Vorstellungen, habe er gelesen, behauptet Höcke.

    In English:

    > The 52-year-old told the court that he had hardly dealt with the 20th century. He has not even read “Mein Kampf”, Adolf Hitler’s work with its central ideas, Höcke claims.

    Thankfully the court had its doubts that this is true.

  17. People from America love to cry “free speech” over stuff like this, but I’m extremely glad Germany is so serious about stomping stuff like this out of society.

  18. Meanwhile America moves one step closer to making it our motto.

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