Telekom announces legal steps against Björn Höcke

Telekom announces legal steps against Björn Höcke

Deutsche Telekom has decisively rejected an assertion by the AfD politician Björn Höcke regarding an alleged earlier advertising slogan of the company and is now examining legal steps. Höcke, top candidate of the AfD for the state election in Thuringia, claimed during a TV duel against the CDU politician Mario Voigt that Telekom had used the slogan "Everything for Germany" in the past. This turned out to be wrong, as a spokesman for the company clarified.

The sentence said, "everything for Germany", which Höcke described as an alleged telecommunications, is actually a forbidden solution to the paramilitary fighting organization SA from the time of National Socialism. Due to the use of this Nazi slogan in a speech, Höcke should answer for the next week before the district court in Halle for accusation of using the license plate.

Not only against Björn Höcke the Telekom defends itself, but last year the company also appeared against AfD federal spokeswoman Alice Weidel. She also wrongly claimed that Telekom had used the sentence said as an advertising slogan. Telekom has asked Weidel to refrain this claim, whereupon it agreed to avoid this error in the future.

in the TV duel, Höcke justified himself as a history teacher for his choice of words and claimed not to have known during his speech that it was a SA slogan. He described the sentence as a "common saying". Telekom is now checking legal steps against the wrong statements of Höcke and is clearly committed to the spread of Nazi slotes.