There are stupid tattoos. And then there are offensively stupid tattoos.

A German man is facing five years in jail, after being charged with inciting racial hatred. The tattoo in question features a Nazi camp slogan under a picture of Auschwitz.

27 year old Marcel Zech is a local politician for far-right group, National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).

The tattoo was photographed when he took his shirt off at a public swimming pool in Oranienburg, which was the site of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany.

The NPD has been labelled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “an anti-democratic, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-constitutional party”. In fact, the German upper house launched a push for the Constitutional Court to ban the party in 2013.

Why anyone would even WANT a tattoo like that, let alone actually get it, is beyond us.

Here are some REALLY bad (but definitely not racist) tattoos.

At least there's some cool shading...

Scary bulldog is scary

Even the dinosaur doesn't want to be there

Fuck luck indeed

Hi Shane

James Rummage sounds like a great guy...

Join the dots!

Not sure if that can be lasered off...

Not sure which superhero this is...

Our hearts are breaking just looking at it.

The (not) amazing spiderman

There's more going on in this tattoo than my love life

This is why you're nottt

Why, thank you for that mindblowing insight.

Wolf of back(street)