World
Germany's AfD expels regional leader over links to Holocaust denier
She is accused of allying with a group labelled by German intelligence as ‘extremist’
August 28, 2019 16:33
She is accused of allying with a group labelled by German intelligence as ‘extremist’
August 28, 2019 16:33The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has expelled its regional leader in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein following a row over links to a group associated with Holocaust denial.
Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein was kicked out after a national party tribunal found her guilty of “behaviour damaging to the party.”
The 64-year-old is accused of supporting Verein Gedaechtnisstaette (“Memorial Site”), a group described by German intelligence officials as “extremist” and co-founded by convicted Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel.
Verein Gedaechtnisstaette was founded by Haverbeck-Wetzel in 1992. The 90-year-old is currently serving a two-year jail sentence for Holocaust denial.
