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Just use the words "They are a national security threat," and you can pretty much do whatever needs to be done.

Nazis are Nazis, you don't need external interference claims (not questioning the claim itself) to arrest them all and dissolve the party. The reality is that this only gets done to leftist parties in Europe.

Music knows no ideological boundaries

What even does that mean? It's fine to say or whatever you want, as long as you can put it in some musical context?

Imma write a jolly song then to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, with the chorus being "Murder, murder all dictators × 3 / Sic temper Tyrannis", see how happy they are to ignore that one.

He got charged.. Meaning it's not ok and illegal

While "Bild" is actually a horrible rag worth being published in England, this does not change the fact that AfD members are Nazis. And one was stupid enough to show it in the open.

Then what is it?

this is absolutely normal and should be protected

I mean, to take a line from Inglorious Bastards

I 'magine you're gonna take off that handsome-lookin' S.S. uniform of yours, ain'tcha?... That's what I thought. Now that I can't abide... I mean, if I had my way... you'd wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of your pecker-suckin' life.

I much prefer the Nazis who are wearing their beliefs on their sleeves.

Only problem is that they don't ever come out of the woodwork until they've got safety in numbers.

The problem Germany has in the modern day isn't a bunch of schlubs throwing up Nazi salutes. Its the much larger pool of industrial and media insiders who have goaded them into it, financed their little fascist friend-groups, and sponsored them to seize power to the benefit of the far-right plutocracy.

Liberals panick when they see the former, but they're constantly trying to win over the latter. You can't clean your house of insects if you keep trying to make friends with the Queen Bee.

As they did last time

Sauce https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/nazi-town-usa-scenes-summer-camp-nazi-town-us/

Germany abolished the death penalty and for good reason.

You should never give the state the right to execute its own citizens

You can have a fair and equitable court system, or you can have a fast one; rarely if ever both. True justice tends to be slow and steady and helps to account for public witch-hunts and reduce risk of someone innocent being wrongfully convicted. People always say, "Yeah well this one is obvious!" but that's not how justice works. It must be absolute. It must be there for the lowest of hanging fruit if it is to be there for the more nuanced cases just the same.

On the other hand, sadly, a slow and unfair one are not mutually-exclusive.

I'd prioritize violent offenses first, but also you do not know the details. Obviously the prosecution wants to assure they have an iron clad case when pursing a charge against a political figure. This is to ensure they are not accused of bias. The offense was 2 years ago, but you don't know how long the investigation was. Also there are multiple ways for lawyers to delay trials. This is necessary to assure the accused get their full right to legal counsel. Also by giving the defense time it reduces the likelihood of mistakes that could be used to make an appeal.

So yeah lots of reasons

‘Lebenslüge’, the myth that German racism began and ended with the Holocaust

You can't re-nazify if you never de-nazified to begin with. Nazis were rebranded and re-incorporated into the new East and West German governments practically before the smoke was clear. While the Russians were quick to round up and execute more Nazis than their ratline-loving Capitalist peers, both governments' police services were thick with former Wauffen SS officers by the turn of the decade.

We had Hitler's Chief of Staff running NATO, ffs.

Despite his extensive knowledge and participation in war crimes, he later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.