A German far-right party's leading candidate in next month's European parliamentary elections has stepped back from campaigning after saying that members of the SS, the Nazis' paramilitary force, were "not all criminals". Maximilian Krah has also resigned from the AfD's (Alternative for Germany) senior leadership team with immediate effect. The SS took a leading part in the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. But Krah said that before describing someone as a criminal, he wanted to know what they had done "personally". He told the Financial Times that many of the SS's 900,000 members were "simple farmers who...