Man charged over 'tattoo of Nazi death camp'
The tattoo apparently depicts the gate at the Auschwitz death camp
A German man has been charged with incitement to hatred after he was pictured with a tattoo apparently of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
The tattoo has the slogan "To Each His Own", which was on the gate of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The photo was taken at a swimming pool in the town of Oranienburg, north of Berlin, at the end of November.
The man, Marcel Zech, is a member of the far-right National Democratic Party and sits on the county council.
The trial has been scheduled to start on 22 December.
Germany has strict laws against the promotion of Nazi ideology in Germany. The punishment for Mr Zech if he is convicted could be as much as five years in prison.
The case comes after several violent incidents this year at reception centres for migrants in Germany.
A senior German intelligence official that Germany's decision to take in asylum seekers was fuelling a resurgence in the far right
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