
An Obituary for Stefan Niehoff—and Free Speech in Germany?
The German justice system used a law designed to prosecute Nazis in order to prosecute and convict someone who was plainly and obviously anti-Nazism.

The German justice system used a law designed to prosecute Nazis in order to prosecute and convict someone who was plainly and obviously anti-Nazism.

The ruling centers on a campaign poster deemed to resemble a banned salute–a decision critics call selective.

Prosecutors are targeting the right-wing politician for a poster showing parents shielding children with raised arms.

The Nazi propaganda chief is famously supposed to have said “we decide who is Jewish!” When it comes to AfD supporters or sympathizers, the not dissimilar attitude of current German authorities would appear to be: “We decide who’s a Nazi.”