A German army officer was fired after he praised a lawmaker for making comments seen as anti- Semitic. Reinhard Guenzel was dismissed Tuesday after he wrote a letter of support to Martin Hohmann, who compared the role of Jews in the Russian Revolution to the Nazis’ actions in World War II.
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