Politician sentenced to prison over Nazi tattoo

A German court sentenced a far-right politician to eight months in prison on Monday for displaying a Nazi-style tattoo, siding with prosecutors and stiffening the suspended term he originally received. The case against Marcel Zech centered on a tattoo that appeared to combine an image of the Auschwitz death camp with the slogan from the […]

A German court sentenced a far-right politician to eight months in prison on Monday for displaying a Nazi-style tattoo, siding with prosecutors and stiffening the suspended term he originally received.
The case against Marcel Zech centered on a tattoo that appeared to combine an image of the Auschwitz death camp with the slogan from the Buchenwald concentration camp’s gate, “Jedem das Seine” – “to each his own.”
The 28-year-old admitted displaying the tattoo while visiting a swimming pool. Prosecutors appealed after a district court in Oranienburg gave him a six-month suspended sentence in December.
Zech, a member of the far-right National Democratic Party, also had appealed that verdict and sought an acquittal.
On Monday, a state court in Neuruppin, north of Berlin, upheld the defendant’s conviction for incitement and imposed the new sentence, news agency dpa reported.