‘An insult to our name’: AfD urged to stop using Simson mopeds at events
by Kate Connolly in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#73MFZ)
Descendants of Jewish brothers forced to sell company to Nazis say appropriation by German far right is repulsive'
The Jewish descendants of a German motorbike manufacturer that was forcibly relinquished by the Nazis have voiced their repulsion at the appropriation of the vehicle by far-right populists.
Members of the family, whose ancestors were forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, say they consider the use of the bike's name by the anti-immigrant Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) as a mockery of our history".
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