‘Anti-Semitic and inhuman’: Outcry as AfD branch leader calls to forget Holocaust
‘The Jewish community and political party leaders in Germany have expressed outrage following remarks by a senior AfD leader, which suggested Germany should rethink its policy of remembering Nazi crimes and Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial.
Bjoern Hoecke, AfD leader in the German federal state of Thuringia is now trying to excuse himself by saying that his words were misinterpreted.
Hoecke remarks came while addressing the “Young Alternative Dresden” group in Dresden on Tuesday. He urged to put an end to Germany’s culture of remembering Holocaust, calling for a significant change in the way the country sees its past, German media reported.
He described the well-known Holocaust Memorial in memory of to the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin a “monument of the shame in the heart of the capital.”’
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