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Robert Tait in Washington

Republican senator fires aide who used Nazi soldiers as Facebook profile picture

Man raises finger at political convention
Jon Husted, whose Senate race is on a knife-edge, in Dallas on Wednesday. The Husted campaign did not say whether Woytek’s social media activity had been vetted before his hiring. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo.

Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division.

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