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German court fines far-right leader for using banned Nazi slogan ‘everything for Germany’
Bjoern Hoecke, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, waits for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the regional court in Halle, eastern Germany on May 14, 2024. (Ronny Hartmann/Pool/AFP)
A German court convicts far-right politician Bjoern Hoecke of deliberately using a Nazi slogan at a campaign rally.
The court fines Hoecke, of the far-right AfD party, 13,000 euros ($14,000) for using the phrase “Alles fuer Deutschland” (“Everything for Germany”) during a 2021 campaign rally.
Once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the phrase is illegal in modern-day Germany, along with the Nazi salute and other slogans and symbols from that era.
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