German Anti-Islam Movement Leader Quits Post After a la Hitler Selfie Goes Viral

Nothing is ever deleted once it is uploaded to the Internet. Never underestimate the power of social media to come back and deliver your just reward for past ramblings and photos.

The leader of PEGIDA (English name roughly translates into "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West"), an anti-Islamization group in Germany, learned that lesson the hard way when a months-old selfie of him posing as die Führer, as well as a post about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), came to light and caused him to step down from his role as chairman.

Lutz Bachmann attempted to explain the selfie as part of a promotion for a very popular Hitler satire in Germany. However, he and his publicist are now doing damage control for his anti-minority posts. The selfie was published on the front page of the tabloid BILD on Wednesday, Jan. 21, and was quickly picked up by other news agencies.

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