German prosecutors were considering filing criminal charges after a video emerged that showed members of the extreme-right NPD party and Wodans Erben Germanien group marching through the northern Bavarian city of Nuremberg.

The prosecutors were deciding if there was “evidence of incitement of the masses” at the event, which was held without permission, Nuremberg’s left-leaning mayor Ulrich Maly said on Tuesday.

Police representatives reported that 18 right-wing extremists marched past a refugee center last Saturday, with police showing up to identify and record them. The participants declared themselves members of the NPD and Wodans Erben Germanien. Police ordered them to disperse and then left the scene.

After the police withdrew, the demonstrators gathered again and marched with lit torches to the area used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his associates for annual rallies from 1923 to 1938. Torches were often used as a prop by the supporters of the original Nazi party and its allies.

The NPD and Wodans Erben Germanien supporters also took pictures of themselves at a stage once used by Hitler.

“This is an event which should alarm all of us across Germany and especially in Nuremberg — the fact that such symbols are used at places like this,” Maly said.

In addition to Nazi rallies, Nuremberg is also known for the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935 at a special parliamentary session in the Bavarian city.

After World War II, the Allies organized the Nuremberg Trials to convict Nazi war criminals, including air force chief Hermann Göring, Hitler’s foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and racial ideologue Alfred Rosenberg.

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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-torch-wielding-neo-nazis-march-in-nuremberg/a-47699823

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“The soul of Hitler that dragged the world into a disaster has revived among some of Israel’s rulers,” Erdogan told Turkish lawmakers.

The attack was the latest denunciation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by Erdogan, president of a NATO country who has sought to position himself as an international Muslim leader and routinely denounces Israel. Netanyahu mocked Erdogan’s charges by noting the Turkish leader’s authoritarian lurch.

“Erdogan is massacring Syrians and Kurds and has jailed tens of thousands of his citizens,” Netanyahu tweeted. “Turkey, under Erdogan’s rule, is becoming a dark dictatorship whereas Israel scrupulously maintains equal rights for all its citizens, both before and after introducing this law.”

Erdogan also revived his calls for an international pressure campaign against Israel on behalf of the Palestinians, in the midst of clashes following the death of an Israeli soldier last week.

“I call on the Islamic world, Christian world, all democratic and liberal states, nongovernmental organizations and members of the media to move against Israel,” Erdogan said, according to the Daily Sabah.

“The real grievous thing is that the world has come to ignore the thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel and the Palestinians who have been injured. But almost everybody has taken action for a single Israeli soldier who has lost his life.”

That’s an apparent reference to an Israeli Defense Forces sergeant who was killed by a sniper in Gaza; the Israeli military retaliated by striking 60 Hamas targets.

“The IDF’s targets included weapon manufacturing sites, an entrance to a tunnel network, a factory used to produce materials for underground infrastructure, a UAV warehouse, military operations rooms, training facilities, and observation posts,” according to the IDF.

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/soul-of-hitler-is-now-in-israel-turkeys-president-warns

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