Far-right firebrand politician Björn Höcke of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will go on trial in mid-April on allegations that he knowingly quoted the banned slogan of Adolf Hitler’s notorious SA stormtroopers in a public speech. Höcke, who leads the AfD’s radical party faction in the eastern state of Thuringia, faces charges of incitement for using the Nazi slogan. The trial is slated to start on April 18 at a court in Halle, with proceedings scheduled to last into May. Höcke is well-known in Germany for his inflammatory remarks and radical positions even within the far-right AfD. Ge…