'Pro-white' David Duke, wanting to reanalyze Holocaust, jailed near Hitler's place of greeting adoring crowds for violating travel restrictions
As David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, ex-Louisiana lawmaker and America's most recognizable white supremacy leader, and once blatant pusher of Nazi propaganda stepped off of his plane Thursday in Germany, officials arrested him for violating travel restricitons, citing his expulsion from Czech Republic in 2009. German authorities said Duke “was not entitled to stay in Germany” and put him into jail after which police in Cologne presented a written statement saying the outspoken “pro-white” figure was “obliged to leave German territory without delay.”
"We all have a responsibility to ensure that extreme-right, nationalistic and anti-Semitic groups and networks are not able to again come together," says Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, according to the Associated Press.
"Duke, who once peddled Nazi propaganda from his legislative office, was detained Friday not far from where Adolf Hitler was greeted by adoring crowds 75 years ago after he violated the Treaty of Versailles by allowing the German military machine to reoccupy the Rhineland," said the Times Picayune, top newspaper in Duke's home state.
Self proclaimed White Nationalist, Duke says his detainment was unjustified and he plans fighting it because it was “a gross twisting of travel laws” serving as “a blatant attempt by the government to prevent a private and peaceful gathering of about a 100 German citizens eager to hear my message of heritage and freedom.”
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