A German village banned together to ensure there was no beer for Neo-Nazis at a local festival—going so far as to purchase vast quantities of alcohol from local grocery stores so the far-right extremists couldn't stock up. Read more:
An alcohol ban in the East German village of Ostritz ensured that Neo-Nazis attending the Schild und Schwert festival would be starved of a favorite German concert-going beverage.
The arrival of several hundred far-right extremists was unwelcome by many in the 2,300 person village near the Polish border, which prompted locals to take matters into their own hands.Knowing that concertgoers would make a beeline to local grocery stores to stock up on alcohol, locals beat them to it, purchasing vast quantities of alcohol on their own dime.
Around 1,400 police officers were deployed around the area, including some from German states outside of Saxony, and the atmosphere remained largely relaxed, Saxony police tweeted. Still, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, East German states still suffer from higher levels of unemployment and have lower living standards than states in the West, according to recent research, such as that of Duesseldorf’s Institute of Economic and Social Research .
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