Udo Voigt, neo-Nazi, questions Auschwitz toll
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The leader of a far-Right party in Germany was facing a parliamentary inquiry last night after he questioned the number of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.
Voigt: 'Six million cannot be right'Udo Voigt, the head of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), also demanded the return of land lost after the Second World War.
"Six million cannot be right. At most,
340,000 people could have died in Auschwitz," he said in an interview with
Iranian journalists.
"The Jews always say: 'Even if one Jew died that is a crime.' But of course it makes a difference whether one has to pay for six million people or for 340,000."
Conservative estimates put the number of dead at the camp at more than a million people.
The comments will fuel a debate among German politicians about the funding of extremist parties with public money.
The German constitution stipulates that all parties are to be treated equally.
Sebastian Edathy, the head of the national parliament's internal affairs commission, said he would file a complaint against Mr Voigt.
The NDP, which the federal government has tried to ban, holds seats in regional parliaments in the eastern states of Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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