The Green Party has expelled one of its founding members, Tristan Abromeit, on grounds that he supports Nazi ideas. He is the fourth party official forced to resign or to leave high posts because of alleged Nazi sympathies.
The Green Party, based in Lower Saxony, is a coalition of pacifists and ecologists and a member of the opposition in the Bundestag. Abromeit, 50, has found himself increasingly out of tune with the party’s guiding principles in recent years. The Green secretary announced yesterday that he would not be allowed to retain his membership card.
Abromeit recently published unflattering comparisons between the Greens and the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
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