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Nazi Strength Through Joy leisure programme to get museum in German far-Right proposals

Germany's far-right NPD Party is on a collision course with the government over plans to build a museum celebrating the Third Reich's "Strength Through Joy" movement, which organised leisure activities for the masses.

Jürgen Rieger, the vice-president of the party that seeks to ban all immigration and sever all ties with the EU, has submitted plans to authorities in Wolfsburg - home to car giant Volkswagen - for the museum intended to "show the people what this organisation did and what it meant".

But critics have accused Mr Rieger of using the museum as a way to spread pro-Nazi propaganda.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)