Photo Gallery Swapping Bomber Jackets for Suits
In the past, Germany's far-right NPD party was associated with skinheads and violent thugs. In recent years, however, the party has been trying to appeal to mainstream voters by cultivating a respectable image and campaigning on populist issues. NPD leaders Udo Voigt (right) and Holger Apfel are seen at a campaign event near Dresden ahead of the 2009 state elections. The slogan reads "Work, Family, Homeland." Apfel succeeded Voigt as the NPD's national leader in 2011.
The NPD's Holger Apfel (left), Udo Pastörs (second from right) and Udo Voigt (right) are seen at a campaign event in a Berlin school in January 2011.
Holger Apfel gets his make-up touched up in a Dresden television studio on election night in August 2009. The NPD has seats in the Saxony state parliament in Dresden and also in the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
But the party needs its links to the neo-Nazi scene to maintain its political power. Here, an event in Ludwigshafen in January 2012.
