AfD candidate Joerg Prophet was defeated by independent incumbent Kai Buchmann in a run-off vote that put the spotlight on the city of Nordhausen in the former East German state of Thuringia.
The AfD is a far right party whose ideology is very similar in many areas to the Nazi ideology, says head of Mittelbau-Dora slave labour camp s memorial site
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday lamented the death of a Holocaust survivor in the city of Kharkiv, saying the killing contradicted the false "denazification" pretext Russians used to invade his country.