Photo Gallery Politicians Shocked By Far-Right Campaign
Critics say that a new campaign poster for the NPD, a right-wing extremist party, has gone too far. Many read the phrase, "Step on the gas," as an open allusion to Nazi death chambers.
"We're not hurting anyone," says party leader Udo Voigt, who appears in the posters for the Berlin election coming up next month. He's simply a passionate motorcyclist, he says.
Since 2008, the NPD has been wishing immigrants a "good flight home" with this caricature of people of Middle Easter origin sitting on a magic carpet. In the party's most recent campaign pamphlet, the following phrase can be found: "Foreigners should not be allowed any rights to buy land or property in Germany."
According to the NPD, Germany needs to make big families a priority just as they did "in earlier times."
This NPD poster encourages social security through having a family "instead of through multi-culturalism."
The number of right-wing extremists is on the rise, according to Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Here a group of neo-Nazis takes part in a demonstration in Berlin.
This isn't the first time during the current Berlin state parliament and mayoral election that the NPD has created a scandal. In the party's current information pamphlet, a cross world puzzle asks people to find a German first name. The answer can be found in five letters: "Adolf". Another part of the puzzle focuses on a "German politician (a Friedensflieger, or freedom flyer) of the 20th century." The four-letter answer: Hess. Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, flew on his own initiative to Scotland in 1941, allegedly to negotiate an end to the war with the British government.
