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Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has banned its lead candidate for the European election, Maximilian Krah, from making public appearances, following his comments that not all SS members were criminals. A party spokesman confirmed a report in the Bild newspaper on Wednesday that the federal executive committee had banned Krah from making public appearances around two weeks before the EU election. Krah declared on the social media platform X that he would refrain from further election campaign appearances and would resign as a member of the federal executive committee. The…