Decades-old antisemitic flyer threatens to upend German state vote


Christian Social Union (CSU) State Prime Minister Markus Soeder and party leader of the Free Voters ("Freie Waehler") Hubert Aiwanger attend a session of the Bavarian state parliament in Munich, Germany, November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - An antisemitic flyer distributed at a German secondary school more than three decades ago is at the centre of a dispute that threatens to engulf Hubert Aiwanger, deputy premier of Bavaria, ahead of a regional election in the state later this year.

The flyer, whose existence was first reported by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday, parodies a national history competition and makes mocking references to Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust.

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