A horrible anti-semitic incident in Germany....

This is pretty bad.

School children in a German state where neo-Nazis are in parliament forced a girl pupil to parade in the playground holding aloft a sign saying that she was the "biggest pig" for having befriended Jews.

The language on the sign was straight from the Nazi era when women who befriended or cohabited with Jews were singled out for state humiliation.

"I am the biggest pig in this place because I hang around with Jews," read the placard that the 16-year-old was forced to carry.

It is unclear whether the girl actually had Jewish friends.

The secondary school in Parey in Saxony was raided by police on Thursday after the incident, and three pupils were detained for questioning.

That comes just months after racist attacks in eastern Germany threatened to blight the country’s hosting of the World Cup.

Before the tournament a black man was beaten into a coma at a bus stop, prompting ethnic groups – backed by a former top politician – to declare that parts of the former Communist east were no-go zones for foreigners.

Also, this summer drunken neo-Nazis flung a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" on to a bonfire as they sang Nazi songs.

Armin Friedrichs, the police chief in Parey, said: "Never in my long experience have I heard of such a terrible act against a teenager."