Stern responded: "The right-wing protesters in Charlottesville raised their arms in the Nazi salute and the American president has not distanced himself from this gesture or from the mindset of the people. On the contrary, Donald Trump had seen in some of them 'fine people.' With this attitude, he identifies with the protesters and greets them in a transcendent sense -- that is exactly what the "Stern" cover visualises. It is, of course, far from us to want to minimise the atrocities of the National Socialists".