Jörg Prophet, who wants Germany to abandon its ‘guilt cult’, could become party’s first city mayor
Directors of a memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp have raised alarm about the revisionist views of a far-right politician expected to become its local mayor, saying he will be barred from attending events to commemorate theThe Alternative für Deutschland politician Jörg Prophet last Sunday finished almost 20 points clear of the runner-up in municipal elections in Nordhausen, a city of about 42,000 in the eastern state of Thuringia.
or “guilt cult”, a far-right phrase used to describe the German tradition of commemorating the Holocaust. About 20,000 Jews and political prisoners died at Mittelbau-Dora, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp that was operational between August 1943 and April 1945. After its liberation, photographs from inside the camp travelled around the world as some of the first pieces of visual evidence of Nazi atrocities.
A row over other parties working locally with the AfD appeared to reach a critical point in the state this week when the Christian Democrats and the pro-business FDP combined with the far-right party to push through a reduction in stamp duty from 6.5% to 5%, against the will of the three-way governing coalition of the Social Democrats , the leftwing Die Linke and the Greens.
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