Nazi Appointed to European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee � The Constantine Report

13.7.14

Nazi Appointed to European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee � The Constantine Report: European leaders, anti-racism campaigners and the World Jewish Congress expressed outrage after a German neo-Nazi took a seat on the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee. Udo Voigt, the former leader of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), has praised Adolf Hitler, was convicted for glorifying the Waffen SS, and infamously claimed “no more than 340,000 Jews” had died in the Holocaust.

Voigt, Germany’s first far-right MEP led the NPD from 1996 to 2011. German intelligence classifies the party as a far-right extremist organization. An attempt to ban the party in 2003 failed but another attempt is currently being considered by Germany’s Constitutional Court.