Telekom counters Höckes NS Parole claim

Telekom counters Höckes NS Parole claim

Deutsche Telekom reacts to a claimed statement by the AfD politician Björn Höcke regarding an alleged earlier advertising slogan of the company and examines legal steps. Höcke had made the statement against the CDU politician Mario Voigt during a TV duel that Telekom used the slogan "Everything for Germany" as an advertising saying. A Telekom spokesman described this claim as wrong and announced that the company would take legal action.

The sentence mentioned is a forbidden solution of the storm department (SA), the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP. Due to this slogan, Höcke will have to answer for the allegation of using indicators in Halle next week before the district court in Halle.

Telekom had already taken the AfD Federal Proterer Alice Weidel last year, after she also claimed that the group used the sentence in question as a logic slogan. Weidel was asked to refrain from this claim.

Höcke, who works as a history teacher, justified his choice of words in the TV duel and stated that it was not known during the speech that it was a SA slogan. He described the sentence as a "common saying".