by: Roy Green | The Guardian

German politicians have reacted furiously to this front page in the Italian daily Il Giornale with its headline "Fourth Reich" above a picture of Chancellor Angela Merkel raising her hand in a vaguely fascist salute.

The paper is owned by the brother of Italy's former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and the article - published on Friday - was written by its editor-in-chief, Alessandro Sallusti.