(CNN) -- Clad all in black and wearing red armbands and banners emblazoned with an apple, members chant, "What gives power to the youth? Apple juice! Apple juice!"
That's a scene you're likely to encounter if you run into the Apple Front, a provocative group that uses satire to challenge far-right extremists in Germany.
The appearance of the members of the satirical political group -- it argues for maintaining the purity of the German fruit crop -- has an unsettling effect, to say the least.
People usually react with shock when they come across Apple Front for the first time, says Tom Rodig, a 22-year-old student who helps organize the group's demonstrations.
But once they realize it's an apple -- rather than a symbol of hate -- that's at the center of the group's iconography, then they understand the parody, he said.
"They see it very fast. This is an effect we want to have -- the shocking moment and then [the realization] that it's just a joke," he told CNN.
He says Apple Front, short for the Front of German Apples, is all about emphasizing the absurd -- it's against "infiltration of the German fruit crop" by alien species and wants to expel tropical fruits to make sure German children remember the value of a "good German apple".
The group, which Rodig says resembles a political theater group more than anything else, demonstrates alongside radicals and neo-Nazis at marches and rallies across Germany -- to make fun of the radicals.
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