Photo: DPAGerman politicians voiced outrage Friday after a leader of the right-wing populist AfD party said Germany should be proud of its soldiers who fought in two world wars. The Social Democrats' Thomas Oppermann said such comments "expose Gauland as an ultra-right militarist", while Greens lawmaker Volker Beck labelled his statements "ever more disgusting". "If the French are rightly proud of their emperor (Napoleon), and the British of (Admiral Horatio Lord) Nelson and (Prime Minister Winston) Churchill, then we have the right to be proud of the achievements of German soldiers in two world wars," he said. Oppermann said his remarks showed the AfD was "clearly turning into a right-wing extremist party". Pointing to WWII crimes such as "the cowardly mass murder of Jews", Beck of the Greens said: "There is nothing to be proud of".

Source: The Local September 15, 2017 12:22 UTC