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“Swastika” ride shut down by German amusement park

A new ride at the "Tatzmania" amusement park in the Black Forest town of Löffingen in south-west Germany was shut down for a design flaw that has nothing to do with safety and that strongly resembles a swastika, the notorious symbol of Nazi Germany.

Germany’s far right: Police to restructure as threat of extremism grows

Germany's Federal Criminal Police (BKA) wants to set up a new central unit to fight right-wing extremism and hate crimes, according to a research conducted by German media outlets WDR, NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Germany’s Jewish Council warns against AfD’s “right-wing extremism”

Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany – the country’s EJC affiliate - has accused the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of having right-wing extremist tendencies.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial files charges against Holocaust denier

A man who reportedly denied the Holocaust during a visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial near Berlin is to face criminal charges, prosecutors confirmed.

Germany to put 92 year-old former SS guard on trial for Nazi crimes

A 92-year old German man will go on trial charged with helping to murder 5,230 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi death camp in World War II, prosecutors said.

German Jewish Central Council slam leading weekly magazine for stereotyping Jews

The German magazine Der Spiegel has found itself embroiled in a new antisemitism scandal after the weekly published an issue depicting contemporary Jews in Germany as ultra-Orthodox Eastern European Jews with side locks.

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