Right-wing rally protests ‘cult of guilt’

ABOUT 3,000 supporters of a German extreme-right party protested in Berlin yesterday against the “cult of guilt” they say was imposed on the nation after the Nazis were defeated 60 years ago.

The National Democratic Party supporters were ringed by police on central Alexanderplatz square, some waving party flags in red, white and black the colours used by the Nazis and imperial Germany. Sunday was the anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945.

The National Democratic Party dismissed organisers of official remembrances on its website as "occupation collaborators and a group of professional Jews", and called for "an end to the cult of guilt."