Germany has banned the neo-Nazi group Hammerskins Deutschland, describing it as an extremist organisation with ties to the US that sees itself as the elite of the rightwing skinhead scene. The German organisation, believed to play a leading role in Europe’s rightwing extremist scene, was an offshoot of Hammerskins Nation, an organisation founded in Texas in 1988, Germany’s interior ministry said on Tuesday. The ban, which extends to the regional chapters of the group and a sub-organisation Crew 38, was a “hard blow against organised rightwing extremism”, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, told reporters. It is the 20th rightwing extremist...