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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Bavaria’s deputy leader faces accusations over antisemitic pamphlet

Hubert Aiwanger
Hubert Aiwanger admitted to having had ‘one or a few copies’ of the pamphlet in his school bag. Photograph: Matthias Balk/AFP/Getty Images

Bavaria’s deputy premier is under intense pressure over an antisemitic pamphlet he is claimed to have written as a 17-year-old schoolboy, in which Auschwitz was described as an “entertainment quarter”.

Hubert Aiwanger was the focus of an extraordinary session of the German state’s coalition on Monday, after the emergence of the leaflet he is accused of distributing at school, 35 years ago, which makes repeated mocking references to the Holocaust.

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