A German official proposed that the passports of suspected neo-Nazis be frozen so they cannot attend a Holocaust conference in Iran. “It would massively damage Germany’s image if German citizens” took part in Iran to deny the Holocaust or the right of Israel to exist,” Gunther Beckstein, Bavaria’s interior minister, said Tuesday.
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