Poles print for German far right

Police blocked an NPD march in Berlin on VE Day

Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) has admitted that it prints its monthly newspaper in Poland.

Police in the eastern state of Saxony seized 21,000 copies of Deutsche Stimme (German Voice) two weeks ago when checking two Polish lorries.

Saxony's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the discovery proved the NPD's "hypocrisy".

The NPD has attacked "wage dumping" - competition for German jobs from east Europeans ready to accept lower wages.

The party says such workers should be prevented from entering Germany.

'Only solution'

Holger Apfel, head of the NPD group in the Saxony parliament, claimed that for three years he had searched in vain for a German publisher for Deutsche Stimme.

"So the only solution left for us was Poland," said Mr Apfel, quoted by the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

He spoke of a "pogrom attitude" in German society towards the NPD - a phrase echoing the Nazis' anti-Jewish pogroms.

The NPD said its paper was printed in Jelenia Gora, south-west Poland.

Last September, members of the far right won more than 9% of the vote in Saxony.

Two years ago, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government tried to ban the NPD, but this attempt failed after the constitutional court rejected its case.