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German Law Anti-Semitic NPD Ex-Mayor’s Acquittal Slammed As ‘Scandalous’

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.

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