The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has formally quit the far-right European Identity and Democracy (ID) political group in the European Parliament, deputy leader Peter Boehringer announced at the AfD’s party conference on Sunday. The move has been expected since the ID group expelled the AfD in the run-up to June’s European Parliament elections. That came after the AfD’s top candidate in the campaign, Maximillian Krah, made highly controversial remarks about the Nazi SS paramilitary in an interview with an Italian newspaper, saying that those who joined the Nazi SS should not necessar…