Germany's xenophobic PEGIDA movement drew widespread condemnation from lawmakers and Jewish groups Tuesday after a speaker at an anti-refugee rally used Nazi-era rhetoric, including a reference to concentration camps, AFP reports.
Prosecutors were studying whether the comments by Turkish-born German author Akif Pirincci constituted sedition. The International Auschwitz Committee slammed the remarks as a "disgusting signal of shamelessness".
Publisher Random House said it had cancelled all contracts between its subsidiaries and Pirincci.