Alexander Gauland says Germans ‘have the right’ to be proud of the achievements of nation’s soldiers in two world warsGermans should be proud of what their soldiers achieved during the first and second world wars, the top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has said in the run-up to elections on 24 September at which the party is expected to enter parliament. “If I look around Europe, no other people has dealt as clearly with their past wrongs as the Germans,” he said. The Nazis ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945, during which time they killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. He said the battle of Verdun during the first world war belonged to German history, as did Erwin Rommel, the second world war field marshal celebrated as the Desert Fox and the army officer Claus von Stauffenberg, who led an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase. The AfD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2017 19:18 UTC