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Germany’s largest Rose Monday parade set off in Cologne on Monday morning, in a climax to the Carnival season. In keeping with tradition the Carnival parade features several colourful satirical floats, which this year includes one depicting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a sloth in a hammock and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as an elephant in a china shop. On one float, a figure with its trousers down stretches its bare buttocks towards a few arms stretched out in a Hitler salute, one of which is emblazoned with the logo of the far right AfD party. “This float actually says it all – the…

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