BERLIN — The co-founder of an anti-immigration group in Germany resumed his position at the head of the movement weeks after he stepped down amid anger over images of him posing as Adolf Hitler.
Lutz Bachmann, 41, took the stage again late Monday as a newly reinstated co-leader of Pegida, which is the German acronym for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, before leading several thousand people on a peaceful march through the eastern city of Dresden.
Bachmann stepped down in January after photographs that he had posted to Facebook were strewn across the front pages of German newspapers, along with postings in which he appeared to praise the Ku Klux Klan and referred to immigrants as “cattle,” “brutes” and “trash.”