BERLIN (Reuters) - The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) will discipline one of its state leaders for criticising Berlin's Holocaust Memorial but will not expel him over the episode, the party's co-leader said on Monday.
Bjoern Hoecke, AfD head in the eastern state of Thuringia, stirred anger across Germany with a comment about the memorial when he told party members in a speech in Dresden last week: "Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital."
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