Far-right German politician starts a new party with a logo bearing a secret Nazi symbol
|(CNN)A leading far-right German politician has announced his departure from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in order to create his own political organization.
The new party’s logo includes a cornflower, which was also adopted as a secret symbol by Nazis in the 1930s.
André Poggenburg, a former leading figure in the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, resigned this week with an email sent to the leadership, in which he criticized the party’s supposed move to the left.