Oh My!!! Oops!!Germany’s Pegida leader steps down over Adolf Hitler photo

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/germany-pegida-adolf-hitler-lutz-bachmann
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Future of anti-Islamisation movement thrown into doubt by resignation of Lutz Bachmann after Facebook photo goes viral

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Germany’s Pegida leader steps down over Adolf Hitler photo
Future of anti-Islamisation movement thrown into doubt by resignation of Lutz Bachmann after Facebook photo goes viral

The head of the German anti-Islamisation movement Pegida has stepped down after a picture of him posing as Adolf Hitler went viral. Lutz Bachmann, 41, a butcher’s son from Dresden and co-founder of the organisation, was seen as Pegida’s figurehead and his resignation throws the future of the group into doubt.

The picture of Bachmann posing as Hitler after a session at his hairdresser, complete with a Hitler hairstyle dyed black and parted on the right and a toothbrush moustache, went viral on Wednesday after it was published by , a local newspaper, the Dresden Morgenpost.

Pegida’s popularity has led to widespread fears that Germany is in the grip of a new breed of far-right ideologues, and the picture raised questions about the group’s allegiance to the far-right scene. The image, which had appeared on Bachmann’s Facebook page, was accompanied by the line: “He’s Back,” after Timur Vermes’ best-selling 2012 satirical novel of the same name about Hitler.

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1. Oops.

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2. I love that you see

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3. the notable fact

About it is that this guy who founded pegida has always presented the movement as totally non racist. He kept asserting that over and over. Now of course we see his true colors. He is just another xenophobic rw hack. interesting parallels could be drawn with some of the more strident gop opponents to immigration. They too claim they are not racist.

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4. +1,000

These folks really are racist morons - they believe they can hide their true 'colors' and yes the parallels are striking.