Saxony-Anhalt

Hans Püschel at a Forum in Hohenmölsen (Sachsen-Anhalt) in 2011.

IN SAXONY-ANHALT, A FORMER EAST GERMAN STATE in the Federal Republic of Germany (right), the highest court threw out a financial judgment against Hans Püschel, who is a former mayor of Krauschwitz, a small town of 600 people.

Püschel had been convicted in 2013 in a criminal court and fined a total of 3,000 euros for controversial comments written in a blog about the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” in central Berlin and on the influence of Jews in German society.