MP allegedly greeted a party colleague at German parliament building ‘with a heel click and a Hitler salute’

Berlin prosecutors say they have charged a member of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with making a Nazi salute in parliament.

The suspect allegedly “greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute” in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Monday.

Making such a salute is illegal in Germany and is punishable by up to three years in prison.

The newspaper Bild named the politician as Matthias Moosdorf, 60, a member of parliament for Zwickau in the former East German state of Saxony.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, but the political party this one person comes from (and exemplifies) is gaining ground rapidly in the German government.

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            I always find this amusing. When people say things like “Get it together, Country!” or ,“What’s going on with Country?”, the country becomes this amorphous thing vs a culmination of it’s population.