KÖTHEN, GERMANY- SEPTEMBER 16: The AfD hold a demonstration at Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2018. The demonstration followed the stabbing to death of a 35 year old German man Daniel Hillig earlier in the week in Chemnitz, Saxony. Daniel Hillig had been involved in an altercation with 2 refugees. The two refugees were detained by the Police and prosecuted for Hillig's murder but the stabbing itself and the involvement of refugees became the trigger for what became known as the 'Xenophobic Riots' in Chemnitz. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
MAGDEBURG, GERMANY - JUNE 04: An AfD supporter attending the end of Regional State Elections Rally in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2021 has the AfD motif cut into his hair style. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
CHEMNITZ, GERMANY- JUNE 01: Neo Nazis's marching under the banner of 'Day of German Future'(Tag Der Deutschen Zukunft) The march is an annual event held at different cities in Germany each year. The 2019 Chemnitz march in Saxony was organised by the Saxon State Association of "Young Nationalists" (JN), the youth organization of the NPD which is genrally considered a neo-Nazi organisation. Around 250 neo-Nazi's were estimated to have participated in the march and rally.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Gety Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 03: The Third Path (Der Dritte Weg) hold a rally in Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, 2020. Meeting at S-Bahn station Wartenberg, the group of some 300 Nazis attempted their march through the area. However, the intended route of the march was successfully blocked by Antifa and other alligned anti-racist groups. The Third Path was established on 28 September 2013 with significant participation of former NPD functionaries and activists. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany has determined that Neo-Nazis have a significant influence on the party. (Photo By Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 03: The Third Path (Der Dritte Weg) hold a rally in Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, 2020. Meeting at S-Bahn station Wartenberg, the group of some 300 Nazis attempted their march through the area. However, the intended route of the march was successfully blocked by Antifa and other alligned anti-racist groups. The Third Path was established on 28 September 2013 with significant participation of former NPD functionaries and activists. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany has determined that Neo-Nazis have a significant influence on the party. (Photo By Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
HALLE, GERMANY- MAY 01: Far Right and Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for their May Day parade in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2017. After congregating at the Main Train station in Halle for their planned May Day march through the city the various groupings of Far Right and Neo Nazis were thwarted in their plans to proceed through the the city due to the large numbers of anti-fascist counter protesters blocking their proposed route. The planned march was finally cancelled by the Police as it was declared to be unsafe for it to proceed.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY- FEBRUARY 13: A far right demonstrator in silouette through a German Nationalist flag on February 13, 2022 in Dresden, Soxony, Germany. The far right held a memorial march on the 77th anniversary of the Allied 'fire bombing' of the city in WW2. The narrative is-we were victims as well. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 03: The Third Path (Der Dritte Weg) hold a rally in Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, 2020. Meeting at S-Bahn station Wartenberg, the group of some 300 Nazis attempted their march through the area. However, the intended route of the march was successfully blocked by Antifa and other alligned anti-racist groups. The Third Path was established on 28 September 2013 with significant participation of former NPD functionaries and activists. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany has determined that Neo-Nazis have a significant influence on the party. (Photo By Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
HALLE, GERMANY- MAY 01: Far Right and Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for their May Day parade in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2017. After congregating at the Main Train station in Halle for their planned May Day march through the city the various groupings of Far Right and Neo Nazis were thwarted in their plans to proceed through the the city due to the large numbers of anti-fascist counter protesters blocking their proposed route. The planned march was finally cancelled by the Police as it was declared to be unsafe for it to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
HALLE, GERMANY- MAY 01: Far Right and Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for their May Day parade in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2017. After congregating at the Main Train station in Halle for their planned May Day march through the city the various groupings of Far Right and Neo Nazis were thwarted in their plans to proceed through the the city due to the large numbers of anti-fascist counter protesters blocking their proposed route. The planned march was finally cancelled by the Police as it was declared to be unsafe for it to proceed.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
GOTHA, GERMAN- OCTOBER 23: A man stands lsitening to a speech being given by the AfD politician Björn Höcke at a regional election rally in Gotha, Thuringia, Germany in 2019. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
CHEMNITZ, GERMANY-AUGUST 30: Martin Kohlman at the ‘Pro Chemnitz' demonstration at Chemnitz Football Stadium, Saxony, Germany. The citizens movement ‘Pro Chemnitz' was initiated in 2009 by Karl Martin Kohlman. Roughly 1000 people attended this demonstration called by Kohlman's group 'Pro Chemnitz' following the stabbing to death of a 35 year old German man Daniel Hillig earlier in the week in Chemnitz. Hillig had been involved in an altercation with 2 refugees. These two refugees were detained by the Police and prosecuted for Hillig's murder but the stabbing itself and the involvement of refugees became the trigger for the Far Right for civil unrest manifesting itself in attacks on foreigners in the city. It became known as the 'Xenophobic Riots' in Chemnitz. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
HALLE (SAALE), GERMANY-OCTOBER 03: Far right hold a demonstration on the National Day of German Unity on October 03 2021 in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. German Unity Day is the National Day of Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
KÖTHEN, GERMANY- SEPTEMBER 16: The AfD hold a demonstration at Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2018. The demonstration followed the stabbing to death of a 35 year old German man Daniel Hillig earlier in the week in Chemnitz, Saxony. Daniel Hillig had been involved in an altercation with 2 refugees. The two refugees were detained by the Police and prosecuted for Hillig's murder but the stabbing itself and the involvement of refugees became the trigger for what became known as the 'Xenophobic Riots' in Chemnitz. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
HALLE, GERMANY- MAY 01: Far Right and Neo-Nazi demonstrators gathered for their May Day parade in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2017. After congregating at the Main Train station in Halle for their planned May Day march through the city the various groupings of Far Right and Neo Nazis were thwarted in their plans to proceed through the the city due to the large numbers of anti-fascist counter protesters blocking their proposed route. The planned march was finally cancelled by the Police as it was declared to be unsafe for it to proceed.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY-AUGUST 18: German Far Right gathering for a demonstration of remembrance for the 31st anniversary of Rudolf Hess death in Spandau Prison on August 18, 2018 at Schmidt-Knobeldorfer in Spandau, Berlin, Germany. Known as the ‘HessMarch' it was eventually escorted by the police to the S-Bahn at Spandau in order for them to link up with another Far Right demonstration taking place in the district of Friedrichshain & Lichtenberg in Berlin. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
CHEMNITZ, GERMANY-AUGUST 30: A right wing demonstrator at the 'Pro Chemnitz' demonstration at Gellertstrasse adjacent to Chemnitz Football Club, Chemnitz, Saxony in 2018. An estimated 1000 people attended a demonstration called by the group 'Pro Chemnitz' following the fatal stabbing of Daniel Hillig, a 35 year old German man, in Chemnitz town centre earlier in the week. Hillig had been involved in an altercation with two refugees resulting in his fatal stabbing. The murder and the involvement of refugees became the trigger for what became known as the 'Xenophobic Riots' in Chemnitz. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: A man stands in the crowd at the Dresden Memorial Funeral March held by the Far-Right holding banners calling the Allied bombing of the city a terror act on February 15, 2025 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Today is the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city which took place from the 13th to the 15th February in 1945. The memorial event has become a regular calendar event for the far right in Germany as paret of its bid to develope the narative that Germans under National Socialism, in reference to the Allied bombing of Dresden, were victims of war crimes as well. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: Police form a protective barrier in front of the lead far right marcher who is carrying a wreath of remembrance in order to protect him from counter demonstrators at Dresden Memorial Funeral March held by the Far Right on February 15, 2025 in Dresden, Germany. With the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, commemorating the period from February 13th to 15th, 1945, when the city was attacked, the memorial event has become a regular fixture in the far-right calendar in Germany. This has been used to promote the narrative that Germans under National Socialism, in relation to the Allied bombing of Dresden, were also victims of war crimes. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: A speaker addresses the assembly of people outside Dresden Mitte train station at the start of the Dresden Memorial Funeral March held by the Far-Right on February 15, 2025 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. With the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city underway commemorating the dates of 13th to the 15th February in 1945 when Dresden was attacked. The memorial event itself has become a regular calendar event for the far right in Germany as part of its bid to develop the narrative that Germans under National Socialism, in reference to the Allied bombing of Dresden, were victims of war crimes as well. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 15: Far right & Neo Nazi groups march together at the Dresden Memorial Funeral March on February 15, 2025 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. With the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, commemorating the period from February 13th to 15th, 1945, when the city was attacked, the memorial event has become a regular fixture in the far-right calendar in Germany. This has been used to promote the narrative that Germans under National Socialism, in relation to the Allied bombing of Dresden, were also victims of war crimes. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)