BERLIN cheap jordan 11 midnight navy mens , Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Alexander Gauland caused outrage in Germany with remarks made about the country's Nazi past on Friday.
Speaking at a regional conference of the far-right party in Thuringia, Gauland said that Germany no longer needed to feel guilty and that Germans had the right to be "proud of the achievements of their soldiers in two world wars."
Gauland's speech that was uploaded to YouTube by the AfD was subsequently discovered, leading to an angry backlash by German politicians and public.
Social Democratic Party of German (SPD) secretary general Hubertus Heil wrote in a tweet that "every reasonable person" could now tell how far-right the AfD was in its worldview.
Politicians from the Left (Linke) and Green (Gruene) parties reacted with similar dismay.
Green party delegate Volcker Beck accused Gauland of glorifying mass murder, torture, rape and bombardments. He argued that German soldiers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS fought for "the continuation of murder in Auschwitz" rather than their country.
However, the Left party's campaign manager Mathias Hoehn warned against paying Gauland too much public attention as this could ultimately improve the AfD's political fortunes. Germans are scheduled to elect a new Federal Parliament (Bundestag) on Sept. 24.
Gauland is currently the subject of an investigation by public prosecutors in Thuringia for comments he made about the Turkish-descended German State Minister for Migration Aydan Oezoguz (SPD). Gauland had suggested that Oezoguz should be "disposed of" in Turkey.
The same public prosecution office said it would also examine the AfD politician's controversial speech. Denying the Holocaust and glorifying the dictatorial Nazi regime are criminal offenses in Germany.