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Germany: Pegida Leader Resigns After Photo Shows Him Posing as Hitler

HeadlineJan 22, 2015

The head of Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida movement has stepped down after a controversy over a photo that showed him posing as Adolf Hitler. Lutz Bachmann had also come under fire for his messages on social media referring to immigrants as “scumbags” and “trash.”

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