Germany's main Jewish lobby group has urged politicians considering a bid to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) to "wake up" to the threat to German democracy.
The Central Council of Jews says the growing respectability of the NPD is fuelling right-wing radicalism more than 60 years after World War Two and the Holocaust.
"Politicians must wake up at last," Stephan Kramer, general-secretary of the council, told Reuters.
"We need a signal to make clear the NPD is trying to destroy Germany and its democratic principles."
Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution says the NPD is racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist and that its statements prove its inspiration comes from the Nazis.
The NPD has about 7,000 members and has seats in two regional state parliaments, both in the former communist East.
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