Overview
- BSW faction chair Niels-Olaf Lüders announced Dorst’s resignation and said Dorst stressed he does not question the Holocaust’s singularity.
- Dorst wrote on X that Ulrich Siegmund’s podcast comment about judging the Nazi era could also be interpreted differently, presenting it as philosophical uncertainty.
- He later attacked Central Council of Jews president Josef Schuster on X over Schuster’s reaction to Siegmund’s remark.
- Brandenburg SPD general secretary Kurt Fischer condemned Dorst’s posts as justifying Holocaust relativization and disparaging the Central Council.
- The departure lands during a broader BSW faction crisis marked by four defections and disputes over media-state contracts that have strained the SPD–BSW coalition.