German SPD backs down after row over crude typo on memorial wreath

Party had suspected extremists of altering the word 'fascism', but now blames 'human error'

Germany's Social Democratic party has backed down after becoming locked in a blame game with a florist and a printer over who was responsible for misspelling "fascism" on a war memorial wreath so that it resembled the word "fuckup".

The error was only spotted once the wreath had been laid on Memorial Sunday, 17 November, when Germany traditionally commemorates the victims of war and fascism.