Political art activists have built a replica of Berlin's Holocaust memorial in direct view of the home of a far-right politician in Germany.
Bjoern Hoecke, who is a senior member of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, provoked outrage earlier this year when he labelled the tribute to the Nazi victims a "monument of shame in the heart of the capital" and urged Germans to focus less on their WWII guilt.
Members of the art collective Centre of Political Beauty purchased the house next to Mr Hoecke's country home in the state of Thuringia and under the cover of night built a scaled-down copy of the memorial, featuring 24 large concrete slabs, in the garden.
The original memorial includes 2,711 concrete slabs of different hieghts, arranged in a grid pattern.
The group's leader, Philipp Ruch, said they wanted to send a daily reminder of the World War II horrors that led to the deaths of six million Jews.
"We hope he enjoys the view every day when he looks out the window," Mr Ruch told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.
The group live-streamed the work, and have crowdfunded a third of the €28,000 (AUD $43,545) required to keep the replica memorial in place for two years.
They notified police in advance and say they have not broken any laws, as they have erected the monument as a "garden decoration" on their own property.
They have offered to remove the memorial if Mr Hoecke kneels in front of it and asks sincerely for forgiveness.
Asked what he thought of the protest, Mr Hoecke said he would respond "at another time".
