Germany in u-turn on EU swastika ban

Germany has made a u-turn on its plan to criminalise Nazi insignia – such as the swastika – across the European Union, and will leave it up to the 27 member states whether or not to punish people who deny the Holocaust.

The move comes after European Hindu groups this month joined forces to fight the German plan saying that the swastika had been one of their religious symbols for around 5,000 years before Adolf Hitler's Nazi party adopted it in the 1930s.

Last week, the Italian go...