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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Thomas Escritt

HISTORICAL FACTS: Jump or be pushed german conservatives turn on ex nazi hunter over race comments - Caught on Camera

FILE PHOTO: The former head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz) Hans-Georg Maassen attends the annual European Police Congress in Berlin, Germany, February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Once he was Germany's top Nazi hunter. Now the conservative opposition want to kick former domestic security chief Hans-Georg Maassen out of their party for allegedly repeating anti-Semitic and racist tropes.

Until 2018, Maassen headed the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, chasing down extremist threats to Germany's constitutional order, whether from foreign spies, religious fundamentalists, the far right or the far left.

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