German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician Bulent Büyükbayram was forced to resign due to a prank at his 50th birthday celebration, during which he took and posted on social media a photo of a sex doll with symbols Nazis, Reuters reported.
Buyukbayram posted a photo in a private Facebook group on October 26.** which totals several hundred people. The recording was made at his 50th birthday party. The photo was of a sex doll wearing a black T-shirt, with the words “Fuck St. Pauli (German football club)” on its head and two S’s in the shape of the SS symbol used by Nazi military units.
A wave of criticism against Buyukbayram forced him to publicly apologize “for his stupidity” and to resign.
“It was stupid, a mistake. I received serious threats. “I apologized to St. Pauli.” — the politician told Bild.
President of the St. Pauli Club Ok Göttlich In the context of the scandal, he issued a statement that fans’ slogans can be inciting, so they should be taken very seriously.
“We are considering legal action for all possible crimes, but we also assume that the use of Nazi symbols will be prosecuted in any case,” – said.
In August it became known that the German Ministry of Defense intends to expand the 2018 “Decree on Traditions”, which regulates the “culture of memory” in German troops.
Journalists noted that the list included personalities such as the Nazi ace pilot. Erich HartmanSS and NSDAP submariner Erich Topp and 22 other “tradition-generating people.” The German Ministry of Defense, amid an avalanche of criticism, decided not to include Wehrmacht officers, some of whom were members of the NSDAP and the SS, in the list of military heroes, RIA Novosti recalls.
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