An Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker, Wolfgang Gedeon, who had labelled Holocaust deniers "dissidents" in his pamphlet "Green Communism and the Dictatorship of Minorities".
In the text, Gedeon also criticised the fact that one of Germany's biggest memorials, in Berlin, is dedicated not to the nation's heroes, but to victims of the Holocaust, which he referred to as "certain misdeeds."
In protest, party co-chief Jeorg Meuthen and a dozen of his backers Tuesday declared they would step down from the AfD state assembly group, saying they did not want to be in the same party as an anti-Semite.
(AFP)