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German AfD rightist triggers fury with Holocaust memorial comments


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By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Wednesday that media had misrepresented comments he made about Berlin's Holocaust memorial and the need to rewrite history books to focus more on German victims. A speech by Bjoern Hoecke, the AfD's leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, on Tuesday triggered anger across Germany and even caused one member of the radical Left party to report him for incitement to racial hatred. The AfD's anti-immigrant rhetoric has won support among Germans worried about the influx of more than a million migrants in the last two years.

 

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