Neo-Nazi Village Features ‘Happy Holocaust’ BBQ
‘Stupid or Provocative?’
“I was shocked and I just couldn’t believe what I saw. It felt really surreal,” VBS TV journalist Barbara Dabrowska told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “It was like in a bad American movie that tries to come up with the most ridiculous idea for how to make Nazis look really terrible. … They probably meant it as a joke, but I was annoyed by their either stupid or incredibly provocative approach.”
In her news report, Dabrowska interviewed Stefan Köster a politician for the NPD, a party dubbed “racist, anti-Semitic, revisionist” by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Köster stressed his party’s social outreach, explaining how his party distributes CDs in school yards and promotes German folk dancing. Asked about the happy holocaust barbeque in the garden behind his office, he said he hadn’t noticed it before.
“Maybe someone is making fun of the political class because of how they repress open discussion,” he said. “After all, if someone has an opinion about the holocaust, they should be able to express it,” he stated, adding that he didn’t find it to be funny.
“It must belong to someone in the building, but to me that matter is unimportant,” he said.
The NPD party won seats in the state parliament for the second time in Sunday’s state election.
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