The Bounty

The Center for Political Beauty, a German art collective, set up a bounty system for Nazi-spotting. Three million photos from far-right marches, seven thousand identified participants, thirty to a hundred euros if you reported someone to their employer and got them fired.

The pitch was crude and direct: What would your boss think? Snitch today, get paid today.

A masked mob showed up at their office. Police arrived and removed the wanted posters instead of clearing the crowd.

What gets me is how German the whole thing is—running an informant network against Nazis in a country where that combination carries some very specific historical weight. And then the state response is to delete the evidence. Not to protect people, but to make the problem disappear. It’s the perfect dark irony.