German students fight radicalization in the classroom

The World

Swastikas on classroom desks. “Heil Hitler” in the hallways. In an open letter this spring, student council associations from the six former East German states warned of increased neo-Nazi incidents in their schools and radicalization and recruitment of their classmates online. Valerie Hamilton has the story.

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