‘An insult to our name’: AfD urged to stop using Simson mopeds at events

Descendants of Jewish brothers forced to sell company to Nazis say appropriation by German far right is ‘repulsive’The Jewish descendants of a German motorbike manufacturer that was forced by the Nazis to be relinquished have voiced their repulsion at the appropriation of the vehicle by far-right populists.Members of the family, whose ancestors were forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, say they consider the use of the bike’s name by the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a “mockery of our history”. Continue reading…