Political explosion Wednesday morning in Germany: The right-wing populist party AfD has imposed a total ban on appearances for its own EU top candidate Maximilian Krah. The federal management is responding to the 47-year-old’s numerous scandals.
The ban on appearances by the controversial politician applies to all AfD election campaign events and other federal party events, a party spokesperson confirmed to the AFP news agency on Wednesday after a telephone conference of the federal board of directors.
Pressure from France as the main reason
The background is Tuesday’s announcement by France’s Rassemblement National that it would end cooperation with the AfD in the EU Parliament.
AfD works together with Le Pen’s party and the FPÖ in Brussels
The AfD leadership would like to continue working with the RN, as party circles said. The AfD works in the EU Parliament together with Le Pen’s party, the Italian League and the FPÖ in the ID (Identity and Democracy) faction. There have been disagreements between the AfD and the RN for some time. After the revelations by media company Correctiv about a right-wing extremist meeting in Potsdam in January, Le Pen expressed clear criticism.
Excitement according to SS-Sager
According to reports in the French media, this concerns an interview that Krah gave this weekend in the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’. In it he claimed that not all members of the SS were criminals. “I will never say that someone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal,” Krah told the newspaper.
When asked if the SS were war criminals, he replied: “There was certainly a high percentage of criminals, but not all of them were criminals.” The National Socialist SS guarded and managed, among other things, the concentration camps and was largely responsible for war crimes. It was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials after the end of World War II.
Source: Krone
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