A Neo-Nazi couple in Adolf and Eva shirts drinking beer while walking through the street in Ostritz. Photo / Getty
A Neo-Nazi couple in Adolf and Eva shirts drinking beer while walking through the street in Ostritz. Photo / Getty
A small town has taken co-ordinated action as a "beer ban" emerges as a new tool against a flare up in Nazi ideaology in Germany.
Ostritz, near the Polish border, has been affiliated with far-right activism before - something locals were appalled by and were determined to correct, reports theBBC.
Five hundred to six hundred Neo-Nazis attended the right-wing Schild und Schwert ("Shield and Sword" or "SS") rock music festival, compared with 1,200 last year.
Neo-nazi vinyls, lighters, caps and numerous goods for sale on a stand at the Schild und Schwert festival. Photo / Getty
They were met with a sober welcome as police had seized 4,400 litres of beer in Ostritz over the weekend after a court-ordered beer ban.
Locals suspected that fans would descend on supermarkets, bought more than bought more than 100 crates of beer in anticipation of the neo-Nazis' arrival. Activist Georg Salditt told Bild that the number was closer to 200.
Salditt, told Germany's Bild daily: "The plan was devised a week in advance. We wanted to dry the Nazis out. We thought, if an alcohol ban is coming, we'll empty the shelves at the Penny [supermarket]."
"The Nazis weren't happy about it," local activist Markus Kremser told public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
The police tweeted photos of their alcohol seizures.
Auch heute setzen wir das Alkoholverbot in #Ostritz weiter durch. Bei Vorkontrollen konnten wir bisher mehr als 200 Liter sicherstellen. pic.twitter.com/fIg1B4XKkx
