Councilor in West German Town Quits After Anti-Semitic Remark
WEGBERG, West Germany — A West German town councilor has resigned after remarking “they still haven’t killed enough Jews” during a council meeting, local officials said.
Willi Vossen made the comment to a colleague as the Wegberg town council was being briefed last week on an exhibit to be opened soon marking the 50th anniversary of a Nazi pogrom against Jews, Mayor Fritz Jakobs said.
“We were all stunned. I was so shaken up that I had to break off the meeting,” Jakobs said in a telephone interview Friday.
Jakobs, confirming a report in the Aachener Nachrichten newspaper, said Vossen, 51, resigned his council seat Wednesday.
Vossen could not be reached for comment.
The other council members in Wegberg, a town of 26,000 about 30 miles west of Cologne, condemned the remark as “intolerable.”
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