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>Two teachers have been pressured out of their jobs in a small German town after denouncing the alleged right-wing extremism of their pupils, in a case that sparked a national outcry.
>Laura Nickel and Max Teske were working in the high school in Burg, a picturesque town in the eastern state of Brandenburg popular with tourists, when they noticed worrying behaviour among some of their students.
>"Right-wing extremism was on full display in the school," Nickel, 34, told AFP. "From Hitler salutes to swastikas drawn on dictionaries and students' lockers, not to mention racist and homophobic language."
>In April, the teachers sent an anonymous letter to the local press denouncing the behaviour they had witnessed.
>At the end of the school year, an anonymous letter from some students' parents was sent to the management, demanding the resignation of the two teachers.
>Then about 100 stickers with photos of the pair and the words "Piss off to Berlin" were put up all over Burg, and a call to hunt them down even appeared on an Instagram account, but was later taken down.
>The pressure became too much for Nickel and Teske, 31, who requested to be transferred.
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