A member of a German state Parliament invoked Adolf Hitler to insult a left-wing politician. Klaus-Jürgen Menzel, recently thrown out of the extremist National Democratic Party of Germany, said that the politics of Left Party member Peter Porsch, who comes from Austria, makes Menzel think “even more positively” about the “other Austrian,” namely Hitler.
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