Rhineland-Palatinate: Young Union defaced photo by Malu Dreyer

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Malu Dreyer, Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate

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The election campaign has begun in Rhineland-Palatinate - but the means with which the Junge Union is fighting against Prime Minister Malu Dreyer are causing trouble.

The youth organization of the CDU published a picture of Dreyer on Twitter, on which her nose was extended by Photoshop.

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The SPD reacted with shock to the picture.

The Rhineland-Palatinate SPD General Secretary Daniel Stich told SPIEGEL:

»To deface the Prime Minister for election campaign purposes via Photoshop is a total lack of level from the ranks of the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU.

The way in which the picture was processed is also terrifying - of all things, one day after the Auschwitz commemoration.

This has brought back bad memories for some.

A distancing and apology from Ms. Klöckner and Mr. Baldauf is inevitable. "

The state CDU apologized for the tweet.

The JU Ahrweiler's criticism of the state government's education policy is justified, she said in a tweet.

But not the way.

Assuming the youth organization to use anti-Semitic imagery is absurd.

The portrayal of Jewish people with big hooked noses is generally considered an anti-Semitic stereotype.

Yesterday people all over Germany thought of the systematic murder of more than six million people by the National Socialists.

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