Controversy in Germany over a Torch March Reminiscent of Nazism

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Coburg was illuminated again on Monday night with the torch march of the Fraternities, the event that its organizers present as a centuries-old student tradition, but whose staging fuels a nationalism that the extreme right of Alternative for Germany (AfD) uses as an electoral impulse. The march, organized by the Studentenverbindungen at Pentecost since 1951, brought together 1,700 young people dressed in the colors of their corporations, carryi…