German vice chancellor condemns populist's Holocaust remarks
BERLIN -- Germany's vice chancellor on Wednesday harshly condemned remarks by a prominent member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, who suggested ending the country's decades-long tradition of acknowledging and atoning for its Nazi past.
Sigmar Gabriel wrote on Facebook that even though he knows the AfD party thrives on provocation, the comments by Bjoern Hoecke, who leads the party in the eastern state of Thuringia, were "shocking."
"This is not just some kind of provocation," Gabriel wrote. "We must never let this kind of demagoguery be undisputed."
