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Title: Former neo-Nazi becomes leftist after sex change
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2011, 02:50:05 PM
Former neo-Nazi becomes leftist after sex change

Published: 12 Mar 11 09:21 CET

http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110312-33671.html (http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110312-33671.html)

Before undergoing a sex change to become a woman, Monika Strub was a member of Germany's neo-Nazi NPD party. But ten years later, she is running for Baden-Württemberg's state parliament for the socialist party The Left.

"I have completely broken with the NPD," Strub told German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung this week, referring to the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party (NPD). "I am a true socialist."

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Today, the 35-year old nurse and photographer named Monika Strub is campaigning for the socialist party The Left.