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Nazi era 'speck of bird sh.t' in German history: AfD leader
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Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 03, 2018 01:39pm |
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Author | AFP |
News Date | Saturday, June 2, 2018 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | ne of the leaders of Germany's far-right AfD party sparked outrage Saturday by downplaying the crimes of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, saying they were "just a speck of bird sh.t in over 1,000 years of successful German history."
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is the biggest opposition party in Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, with more than 90 deputies.
In remarks reported by Deutsche Welle and the German news agency DPA, Alexander Gauland, co-leader of the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam party, told a youth party congress that there was more to the country's history than the 12 years of the Nazi regime.
"Yes, we plead guilty to our responsibility for the 12 years" of Nazi rule, he said.
But "we have a glorious history and one, my dear friends, that lasted a lot longer than those damned 12 years," Gauland said.
"Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird sh.t in over 1,000 years of successful German history." |
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