Auschwitz Committee: “Terror figures of the AfD”

The fact that Maximilian Krah and Matthias Helferich will also sit in the Bundestag as part of the AfD parliamentary group has been described as a scandal by the International Auschwitz Committee. This will seriously damage Germany's image, and not only among the victims of National Socialist persecution, explained Executive Vice President Christoph Heubner. He spoke of "bogeymen of the AfD". The fact that they have now been accepted into the parliamentary group reveals a "cynical arrogance", he added: "Hopefully the many non-right-wing extremist AfD voters will now realise who they have also voted for and what they have empowered the AfD to do." Both politicians are regularly criticized for their stance on the Nazi era.