A group of hikers dressed in Nazi uniforms — including some from America — were stopped by police in the Swiss Alps and ordered to remove their offensive outfits.
The hikers were wearing Wehrmacht uniforms with Nazi insignia — including swastika armbands — when they sparked alarm Friday in the Bernese Alps, Swiss public radio outlet SRF reported.
Video shows them marching brazenly past stunned onlookers.
“The group consisted of around 25 people from various European countries and the United States,” Deborah Zaugg, a spokesperson for Bern cantonal police, told SRF, without saying how many of them were from the US.
Police confronted the hikers the next day and ordered them to take off their jackets with Nazi symbols, because “we wanted to prevent any sudden confrontations with third parties,” Zaugg said.
The men’s personal details were taken by the police but not released.
Switzerland, unlike neighboring Germany, Italy, France and Austria, does not prohibit people from wearing Nazi symbols — which has been blamed for a rise in far-right extremist meetings there, SRF said.
Last year, both the National Council and the Council of States voted for a ban in the European nation.
