Germany’s representative to EU Parliament is son of Nazi, once called Hitler ‘a great man’

[DonViejo]

Source: Agence France-Presse


By Agence France-Presse
Monday, May 26, 2014 18:58 EDT

Udo Voigt, the first member of Germany's far-right anti-immigrant party to enter the European Parliament, has faced legal action in the past with comments such as Hitler was "a great man".

The son of a Nazi SA assault division member, Voigt, 62, was the chief candidate for the extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which scored one percent in the German vote for the EU-wide election Sunday.

Three years after being found guilty in 2004 of promoting Nazism after he called Hitler "a great man", Voigt questioned the number of Holocaust deaths and demanded the return of German land lost after World War II.

He also received a four-month suspended jail sentence for inciting violence after calling in a 1998 campaign speech for voters to engage in "armed combat".

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/26/germanys-representative-to-eu-parliament-is-son-of-nazi-once-called-hitler-a-great-man/

[951-Riverside]

1. I did not know Arnold was involved in German politics. n/t

[SoapBox]

2. They don't even try to hide their crazy.

WTF? Is it a lack of education? Too much FuksNews (European version)? Too much crazed religion?

Go through a WWII again? And all its horrors?

Wake up world!

[octoberlib]

3. This crap makes me sick.

[cstanleytech]

17. Well he really was a great man.

A great man at being a genocidal mass murdering fear mongering asshole that is.

[octoberlib]

4. And I don't think any party that can only get 1 percent of the votes

should have a seat in anything. Germany's asking for trouble.

[Purveyor]

5. Western Ukraine would make a perfect fit with the EU, indeed. eom

[geek tragedy]

6. What a sleazy, bigoted comment.

Do you know anyone in Ukraine, or is your understanding basically what Russian state media tell you to think?

[Purveyor]

11. "sleazy" perhaps in your 'world' but I don't get the bigoted bullshit? eom

[geek tragedy]

14. Ethnic Ukrainians are not a bunch of Nazis. That's the

group libel that Russian state media has been pushing to justify Russia's bullying.

[joshcryer]

8. More in line with Russia really.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. They certainly seem to support Putin.

From France to Greece, the far-right assholes have been quite supportive of Putin.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Please feel free to kiss my Western Ukrainian arse with that comment. nt

[Jesus Malverde]

16. Nailed it

Jesus

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Oh, brother. What a mess!

[freshwest]

9. Well, hell. But he's only one Nazi. Who got elected. By who knows how many. Sad.

[AngryDem001]

10. Conservatism needs to be crushed.

EVERYWHERE. It's poison is spreading around the globe.

[jakeXT]

12. Greece has 3

Greece votes 3 MPs from Greece’s Golden Dawn into Brussels

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In a triumphant televised address on Sunday, Ilias Kasidiaris, the party spokesman who has extolled Hitler and has a swastika tattooed on his upper arm, said Golden Dawn was a new force in Europe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/10856865/Greece-votes-3-MPs-from-Greeces-Golden-Dawn-into-Brussels.html