Saxony-Anhalt’s highest court is under fire for a precedent-setting lenient sentence on a former mayor convicted of Holocaust denial.
The far-right politician from former East Germany remains unapologetic.
Historians and a prominent Jewish council are protesting the “scandalous” acquittal announced by an appeals court, which threw out an already lenient financial judgment against a former mayor who wrote blogs questioning Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.
The German constitution forbids questioning the existence of the Holocaust or praising the Third Reich.
German Law Anti-Semitic NPD Ex-Mayor’s Acquittal Slammed As ‘Scandalous’
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