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Pranksters target German far-right party with election campaign stunt Pranksters posing as a delivery service won a contract from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to distribute a million campaign flyers - instead sending the leaflets back to the party's offices two days before Sunday's election.

German activists pretended to deliver a far-right party’s election fliers. A court battle could be next. The activists have targeted far-right politicians for fueling rhetoric against refugees or downplaying Holocaust remembrance.

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The Far Right Is Taking On Cultural Institutions Theaters, museums, and other venues in Germany are facing pressure from the AfD, raising questions about the extent of artistic freedoms.

German Authorities Drop Investigation of Group that Replicated Holocaust Memorial Near Home of Rightwing Politician After Björn Höcke called the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin “a monument of shame," an artist built a replica beside the politician's home.

German State Drops Investigation Into Political Artist, but Outcry Keeps Growing An artist who built a replica Holocaust memorial next to the home of a far-right politician was the subject of a 16-month criminal inquiry. Prominent figures want to know why.

As the collective finds itself targeted by the first criminal investigation of its kind against a group of artists in modern German history, their stunt is instead putting the spotlight on the proximity between far-right politics and the public servants.

Holocaust memorial replica stunt shines light on rightwing radicalism in Germany Art collective likened to ‘terrorist organisation’ by far-right politician Björn Hocke

Where civil and criminal proceedings have failed, a state prosecutor has stepped in, it emerged Wednesday. The prosecutor’s office in Mr. Höcke’s eastern home state, Thuringia, is investigating the artists on suspicion of “forming a criminal association,” a legal provision known as Paragraph 129, which gives the state far-reaching surveillance rights and is normally applied to criminal groups and suspected extremists.

He Built a Holocaust Memorial by a Far-Right Leader’s Home. Now He’s Under Investigation. The artist Philipp Ruch built a section of the Holocaust memorial outside the bedroom window of a far-right politician, Björn Höcke. Now he is the subject of a state investigation.

‘Thank you, dear Nazis’: A German art collective says it tricked neo-Nazis into outing themselves online The Center for Political Beaty launched a website asking the public to name and shame far-right extremists who marched this summer in Chemnitz, when in fact the page was designed to goad neo-Nazis into searching their own names.

Who Says Art Is Useless? A German Art Collective Outs 25 Neo-Nazis in an Online Sting Operation | artnet News The far-right extremists thought they got away with rioting in the city of Chemnitz in August, but then they got caught by a group of artists.

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German Neo-Nazis Fell for Art Project and Outed Themselves.

German Neo-Nazis Fell for Art Project and Outed Themselves Far-right extremists in Chemnitz went unidentified after riots this summer. On Wednesday, they learned they’d been ID’d after all.

For One Far-Right Politician, Forgetting Germany’s Past Just Got Harder Björn Höcke declared Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial a “Monument of Shame.” So a German artist collective built one to scale, right outside his bedroom window.