Photograph of Germany’s Pegida leader styled as Adolf Hitler goes viral

[muriel_volestrangler]

A photograph of the leader of a growing “anti-Islamisation” movement in Germany styled as Adolf Hitler has gone viral and raised new questions about the group’s allegiance to the far-right scene.

Lutz Bachmann, 41, a butcher’s son from Dresden and a co-founder of Pegida, posed as Hitler after a session at his hairdresser’s, complete with a Hitler hairstyle dyed black and parted on the right, and a toothbrush moustache.
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A Morgenpost reader uncovered the photograph, along with what appeared to be a closed Facebook conversation between Bachmann and one of his Facebook contacts, in which he described immigrants as “cattle”, “scumbags” and “trash”. The comments were posted on 19 September, around two months before the first Pegida march in Dresden.

Responding to the picture, Bachmann told Bild: “I took the photo at the hairdresser’s, for the publication of the audiobook of the satire (novel) He’s Back ... you need to be able to joke about yourself now and then.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/pegida-leader-styled-adolf-hitler-lutz-bachmann-german-islamist-terrorists-facebook

[GermanWatcher]

1. Bachmann stepped down

Because of this scandal, Bachmann has just given up his top position in that right-wing movement. Good riddance!