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Spooky German mainstreet viral Racism : Pizza & Hitler a Miscellany![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's definitely a lot in, on & under this. Earlier this week global media attention was brought yet again to far right street violence in Germany when a mob chased several men of Indian origin through the streets of a small town. It is just over a year since the book burning incident at Pretzien (see article footnotes) & thus there is no reason to believe that the soul-searching which followed that incident amidst promises of appropriate action & policy to stave off racism have had any real success. But back to that drawing board the German state went this week as then the anniversary of Rudolf Hess the deputy to Hitler was marked by calls by the Udo Viogt the leader of the German far right party to posthumously award Hess with the Nobel Peace prize. As of yesterday Voigt is in custody & may face three years in prison. The night of the 19th of August, a mob of around 50 people chased 8 Indian men through the streets of Mügeln a small East German town. No locals attempted to stop what they insisted was the action of outsiders & no-one known to their village. At end "order" was restored when a massive contigent of riot police were brought in to quell the town. One of the men (a German citizen) owns a Pizza Parlour in the town and after being beaten & "run" amid taunts of "auslander raus!" (foreigner go) through the town, the group finally found refuge in that Pizza parlour whilst the mob set about smashing its windows. The police held a line (pictured) in front of the parlour and the mob moved to destroy a car belonging to the Pizza parlour man. They obviously weren't local. In reaction to such hatred and the serious injuries of one of the men, the mayor offered the opinion that if the incident were indeed of far-right nature, those responsible weren't local people. The mainstream German press turned to discussing (yet again) how debate on stemming the tide of such hatred was raging on all their portals. Naturally amongst the debate is the idea (yet again) of illegalising the NPD party whose leader as I wrote in the introduction was arrested for his Hess speech and incitement to hatred yesterday.
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