European Parliament's far-right coalition expels Germany's AfD party over Nazi comments

A group of far-right parties in the European Parliament kicked out Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party. This happened because the AfD's top candidate made comments about Nazi SS soldiers from World War II. The group that made this decision is called the Bureau of the Identity and Democracy Group. They said they don't want to be linked to the AfD anymore because of what their candidate, Maximilian Krah, said. Krah talked about SS soldiers in a newspaper interview and said not all of them were criminals. The SS was a group that guarded concentration camps during World War II. The AfD's leading candidate, Krah, was told by his party not to make public appearances after his controversial comments. The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen also said her party won't be in the same group as the AfD after the elections. The AfD admitted that Krah's words caused a lot of harm to the party during the election campaign. Krah took responsibility for what he said and stepped down from his position in the AfD's board. This news was reported by CNN's James Frater in London, Nadine Schmidt and Seb Shukla in Berlin, and Barbie Nadeau in Rome.