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Merkel ally Steinbach quits in row over blame for WWII
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| Last Edited | Ashley Sep 10, 2010 04:52pm |
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| Author | BBC |
| News Date | Friday, September 10, 2010 01:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | An ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will resign from a top party post after suggesting that Poland may have been as responsible as Hitler for the outbreak of World War II.
Erika Steinbach said Poland had mobilised its troops months before the Nazis invaded in September 1939.
Her remarks were criticised by senior politicians including Mrs Merkel.
Mrs Steinbach heads a conservative body representing Germans who were expelled from Eastern Europe after the war.
Polish politicians have condemned her stance on the war, which began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. |
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