Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has banned its lead candidate for upcoming European elections from making public appearances after he claimed that not all members of the Nazi SS were necessarily criminals. The announcement that Maximilian Krah will pull back from campaigning came a day after longtime ally, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, said lawmakers from her National Rally party would no longer sit in the same parliamentary group as the AfD after next month's European parliament elections. In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Krah said he would "never say that anyone who wore...