A German court sentenced extreme-right politician Marcel Zech to eight months in prison for displaying a tattoo with a picture of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and a phrase from the gate of the Buchenwald death camp, “Jedem das Seine” — “to each his own.”
Zech, a member of the extreme-right National Democratic Party, admitted that he displayed the tattoo while swimming. In December, a district court in Oranienburg gave him a six-month suspended sentence, which he appealed.
The judge presiding over the case, Joern Kalbow, said that the public might view a suspended sentence as "the state retreating in the face of right-wing radicalism." when explaining why the court increased, Zech's sentence. He also noted that Germany has seen an increase in the number of racist crimes recently.