In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor close ChancellorThe leader in the Reichstag, appointed by the German President. of Germany. He led the right-wing Nationalist Socialist German ...
as it violated Germany’s strict laws against using Nazi language (the phrase was a slogan of the Nazi paramilitary organization the Sturmabteilung, and is therefore banned). Höcke was convicted ...
One of the party's leading figures, the Thuringian AfD state chairperson Björn Höcke, was convicted twice in 2024 for using a banned slogan of Hitler's paramilitary Sturmabteilung, SA.