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Pegida head Lutz Bachmann reinstated after furore over Hitler moustache photo
Source: The Guardian
Pegida head Lutz Bachmann reinstated after furore over Hitler moustache photo
Ben Knight in Berlin
Monday 23 February 2015 13.46 GMT
Lutz Bachmann has been reinstated as the head of Germany’s anti-Islamisation movement Pegida, a month after resigning over a photo showing him posing with a Hitler moustache.
The group confirmed on its Facebook page that the 42-year-old had been re-elected as chairman on Sunday by the six other members of the organisation’s leadership committee.
The Sächsische Zeitung reported last week that the Hitler moustache on the now infamous photo had been added after the photo was taken – though Bachmann did not mention this when the photo went viral.
“No one would have believed me at that moment,” he told the Guardian on Monday. “All the media in the world reported it. On the original photo, I did not have a moustache. Since then, it has been revealed as a forgery, but in that moment, it simply wasn’t possible to refute it, and in order to avoid damage I stepped down – but only as chairman. I never left the organisation.”
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Ben Knight in Berlin
Monday 23 February 2015 13.46 GMT
Lutz Bachmann has been reinstated as the head of Germany’s anti-Islamisation movement Pegida, a month after resigning over a photo showing him posing with a Hitler moustache.
The group confirmed on its Facebook page that the 42-year-old had been re-elected as chairman on Sunday by the six other members of the organisation’s leadership committee.
The Sächsische Zeitung reported last week that the Hitler moustache on the now infamous photo had been added after the photo was taken – though Bachmann did not mention this when the photo went viral.
“No one would have believed me at that moment,” he told the Guardian on Monday. “All the media in the world reported it. On the original photo, I did not have a moustache. Since then, it has been revealed as a forgery, but in that moment, it simply wasn’t possible to refute it, and in order to avoid damage I stepped down – but only as chairman. I never left the organisation.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/pegida-head-lutz-bachmann-reinstated-hitler-moustache-photo