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A young dad accused of being a National Action member posed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit while holding his newborn son, a court heard.

Jurors were shown a photo of Adam Thomas, 22, in a white gown and hood cradling his baby - who he allegedly named after Adolf Hitler.

In another snap he and girlfriend Claudia Patatas, 38, posed with their son alongside a Nazi flag inside their home.

Birmingham Crown Court heard Nazi paraphernalia was discovered throughout their semi-detached property.

Jurors were shown photos of a Swastika cookie-cutter, cushions and armbands and far-right uniforms found in the house.

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Another image, from what barrister Barnaby Jameson QC called the "Thomas-Patatas family album", allegedly showed Thomas at home in a KKK robe brandishing a machete in front of a Confederate American flag.

Other items seized by police included a copy of a letter written by Heinrich Himmler and various Nazi flags and banners.

There was also a poster allegedly stuck to the fridge that read "Britain is ours - the rest must go".

And a greetings card on the sideboard of the couple's living room featured KKK figures and read: "May all your Christmases be white," the court heard.

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The couple also allowed a convicted racist to pose for a snap with their son while making a "Hitler salute", it is claimed.

Thomas and Patatas, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, are accused of having a “fanatical and tribal belief” in white supremacy.

They were allegedly members of neo-Nazi National Action, which was deemed a terrorist organisation in 2016.

Then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd described it as “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic”.

Patatas, Thomas and fellow defendant Daniel Bogunovic, 27, from Leicester, deny being members of a proscribed organisation.

Thomas also denies a charge relating to possessing items which could be used to commit a terrorist act.

The defendants allegedly collected “extensive weaponry” - with Bogunovic and Thomas having a “particular interest” in machetes.

Other items possessed by National Action included shotguns, assault rifles, knives, ice-picks and cross-bows, the court heard

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Prosecutor Mr Jameson told the court: "The Crown say all the defendants in this case... were cut from the same National Action cloth.

"They were fanatical, highly motivated, energetic, closely linked and mobile.

"And they all had, we say, a similar interest in ethnic cleansing, with violence if necessary, and the evidence in this case, we say, speaks for itself."

The trial continues.