German rightist leader walks to police station after clothes stolen

 

Alexander Gauland of the Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) attends the 2018 budget debate at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - The co-leader of a German anti-immigrant party had to walk to a police station from the shores of a lake outside Berlin wearing only his underwear after his clothes were stolen while he was swimming, the Maerkische Allgemeine newspaper reported on Tuesday.

 

Alexander Gauland, 77, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), told the newspaper, "My belongings were stolen by someone as I was in the water and other swimmers called the police without asking me."

 

The newspaper reported that the incident in Heiliger See southwest of Berlin happened last Tuesday. Gauland drew rebuke from German politicians over the weekend for saying that Hitler and the Nazis were nothing more than "bird shit," remarks interpreted as an attempt to downplay the significance of Nazi crimes.

 

"Other swimmers told me that the robbers shouted, 'This is no swimming place for Nazis'," Gauland, a lawmaker in the Bundestag lower house, told the newspaper. "My keys were in the trousers so the whole locking system of the house had to be changed," he said.

 

A police spokeswoman told Maerkische Allgemeine that the robbery appeared to be politically motivated and was being investigated.

Police in the state of Brandenburg where the incident occurred could not be reached to confirm the incident.

 

A picture of Gauland in boxer shorts walking near police was widely circulated on social media.

 

Gauland told an AfD gathering in the eastern state of Thuringia that "Hitler and the National Socialists are just bird shit in 1,000 years of successful German history."

 

Politicians from of many parties condemned his remarks, saying they amounted to belittling the Holocaust and other crimes committed by the Nazis.

 

The Nazi dictatorship is a highly sensitive issue in Germany, more than seven decades after its defeat.

 

Germany has built its post-World War Two identity on the principle of keeping alive the memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis and a commitment to Israel’s right to exist.

 

(Reporting by Joseph Nasr; editing by Toni Reinhold)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-06

One can only hope it wasn't an immigrant who took his clothes.   

 

 

Gauland is a closet nazi who has been trying to mitigate everything that has ever happened in WW II. He even said the German army should be proud of what they have achieved back then. That's just despicable. But still many people will argue that he is just a patriot and a nationalist. What a joke that guy is! Not to mention his supporters ...

Edited June 6, 20188 yr by rudi49jr

11 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Gauland is a closet nazi who has been trying to mitigate everything that has ever happened in WW II. He even said the German army should be proud of what they have achieved back then. That's just despicable. But still many people will argue that he is just a patriot and a nationalist. What a joke that guy is! Not to mention his supporters ...

I think he's been thoroughly exposed.

 

Ah the “open door to Islamic terror and mass immigration “ mob in Germany dont like the Germans who fight it! Losers!


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2 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

Gauland is a closet nazi who has been trying to mitigate everything that has ever happened in WW II. He even said the German army should be proud of what they have achieved back then. That's just despicable. But still many people will argue that he is just a patriot and a nationalist. What a joke that guy is! Not to mention his supporters ...

He is just a patriot and a nationalist.

 

Question is : why didn't he ask someone to call his home to bring other clothes before he went to the police station ?

1 minute ago, BuaBS said:

He is just a patriot and a nationalist.

 

Question is : why didn't he ask someone to call his home to bring other clothes before he went to the police station ?

“He is just a patriot and a nationalist”

 

That’s what the last one claimed to be.

4 hours ago, markaoffy said:

Ah the “open door to Islamic terror and mass immigration “ mob in Germany dont like the Germans who fight it! Losers!


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Are you German??? 

 

As I find it hard to think there are many Germans who share your sentiment.

Edited June 6, 20188 yr by Basil B

6 hours ago, BuaBS said:

He is just a patriot and a nationalist.

 

Question is : why didn't he ask someone to call his home to bring other clothes before he went to the police station ?

No, question is why people like you feel the need to defend this piece of trash

Are you German??? 
 
As I find it hard to think there are many Germans who share your sentiment.

No,but I’m clearly in touch with large percentage of German electorate , Afd the official opposition with 88 aeats. You clearly know nothing about “German sentiment”


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No, question is why people like you feel the need to defend this piece of trash

Ah the “trash “ is out in TV


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23 minutes ago, markaoffy said:

No,but I’m clearly in touch with large percentage of German electorate , Afd the official opposition with 88 aeats. You clearly know nothing about “German sentiment”


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Are you saying the Germans want to go back to the 30's... I am sure they do not.

Edited June 6, 20188 yr by Basil B

currently, the situation of pluralism in politics in Germany is not a good one.

 

the AfD was earlier a eurosceptic party that has gradually been taken over by the extreme right.

 

at the same time, the CDU is no longer clearly on the right side of the political spectrum, while there also has been a large shift of German society to the left, that can be felt in every part of public life, many German media now also report increasingly in a leftist-friendly manner.

 

currently, voters who feel more to the right than the CDU but aren't xenophobes nor nazis have no representation in German parliament, and they feel a pressure in their daily lives of being imposed a way of life that they don't agree with.

Edited June 6, 20188 yr by manarak

Are you saying the Germans want to go back to the 30's... I am sure they do not.

As ever introducing a red herring ! Typical liberal crap


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37 minutes ago, markaoffy said:

As ever introducing a red herring ! Typical liberal crap


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Yup, one big laughing yawn matches


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“There is an alternative “That’s what the left wing would shout during the Great Margaret Thatcher years ! The Germans have found that!

 

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9 hours ago, markaoffy said:

As ever introducing a red herring ! Typical liberal crap


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It wasn’t a red herring it was historical context.

 

Doh!

On 6/6/2018 at 7:31 AM, rudi49jr said:

Gauland is a closet nazi who has been trying to mitigate everything that has ever happened in WW II. He even said the German army should be proud of what they have achieved back then. That's just despicable. But still many people will argue that he is just a patriot and a nationalist. What a joke that guy is! Not to mention his supporters ...

Why do you suggest that he is a "closet Nazi" ?

The World should move on from WW2 and modern day  Germany and Japan should not be vilified for things that happened 70 years ago .

7 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Why do you suggest that he is a "closet Nazi" ?

The World should move on from WW2 and modern day  Germany and Japan should not be vilified for things that happened 70 years ago .

Members and supporters of today’s extreme rightwing nationalists are very keen for us to forget the wars, crimes and genicides committed by extreme rightwing nationalists during WW2.

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Members and supporters of today’s extreme rightwing nationalists are very keen for us to forget the wars, crimes and genicides committed by extreme rightwing nationalists during WW2.

As Hitler was a Socialist , he should be regarded as a Left-wing Nationalist .

 

15 minutes ago, sanemax said:

As Hitler was a Socialist , he should be regarded as a Left-wing Nationalist .

 

Your contribution to your recorded idiocy is noted.

Edited June 7, 20188 yr by Chomper Higgot

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

Your contribution to your recorded idiocy is noted.

Nazi = National-Socialist .

21 hours ago, Basil B said:

Are you German??? 

 

As I find it hard to think there are many Germans who share your sentiment.

 

I think you haven't been in western Europe since long.

12 hours ago, markaoffy said:

As ever introducing a red herring ! Typical liberal crap


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Muh nazis and muh Hitler is all they have. If they actually had arguments of substance they wouldn't need to resort to mud slinging.